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WE are glad to see from the Third Annual Report of this Society that it continues prosperous, the number of members being, in 1872, 105. We hope good use will be made of the valuable herbarium of flowering plants, ferns, lichens, &c., collected and arranged by the late Mr. Hill, which ha come into the possession of the society, through the generosity of the Mayor, Mr. R. P. Forder, and the President. The present part of the journal contains a number of papers, literary and scientific, read at various meetings of the society. The principal one is the Introductory Address delivered at the commencement of the third session, by the Rev. Canon Kingsley, on “Bio-Geology—the science which treats of the distribution of plants and animals over the globe, and the causes of that distribution.” The address is an eloquent one, it can easily be imagined, shows extensive knowledge and great shrewdness, and contains many valuable hints both to young and old naturalists. Most of the other papers are also by clergymen, the principal ones being the following:—“On the Dawn of Thought in Greece,” by the Rev. W. Awdry; “On the Metamorphosis of Lepidoptera,” by Mr. J. Pamplin; “the Planet Jupiter,” by the Rev. E. Firmstone, in which the author gives many interesting facts and speculations as to the condition of that planet; “Vesuvius previous to and during the Eruption of 1872,” by the Rev. C. A. Johns, in which the author describes an ascent he made shortly before the last eruption, and appends a condensed abstract of Palmieri's account of the eruption. Appended to the journal is a valuable list of 315 works on the Geology, Mineralogy, and Palæontology of the Hampshire Basin, compiled by Mr. William Whitaker, of the Geological Survey.
Journal of the Proceedings and Annual Report of the Winchester and Hampshire Scientific and Literary Society,
vol. i., part ii. 1871–2 (Winchester: Warren and Son, 1873).
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[Book Reviews]. Nature 8, 484 (1873). https://doi.org/10.1038/008484a0
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