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MISCELLANEOUS INTELLIGENCE. 



Art. I. Retrospective Criticism. 



Corrections. — In p. 54. line 1., for " snowd6nica," 

 read "snowdonius;" line 17. for "A'trop«," read " A'topa;" 

 line 18. for " Sylphidae," read " Silphidae." In p. 68. 

 line 6., for "were," read "was." In p. 114. line 17., for 

 " gallinule," read " corncrake ;" and see p. 279. In p. 128. 

 line 11. from the bottom, for "we," read "he." 



The Bristol Philosophical Institution (p. 126. note at foot). 

 — I notice with regret that Mr. Conway affirms, in a note 

 in p. 126., that the Bristol Philosophical Institution does 

 not admit strangers to have access to the library. I am 

 sorry that any person should ever have visited the institution, 

 and not have understood that the proprietor who introduced 

 him to see the museum could also have entered his name 

 as a visiter to the reading-rooms ; and I have yet to learn if 

 ever any difficulty has been experienced by even the casual 

 traveller, desirous of obtaining sight of the museum or use 

 of the library, upon application to the officers of the institu- 

 tion, who, rather than such should occur, would never 

 hesitate to pay those attentions upon their own responsibility, if 

 time would not allow the formal introduction, or order from 

 a proprietor. — S. Stutchbary, Curator of the Bristol Institution, 

 Park Street, March 4. 1833. 



A long communication on this subject, signed Causidicus, 

 has been received. Like the above, but in greater detail, it 

 goes to exonerate the Bristol Institution from every cha- 

 racteristic of exclusiveness, and to claim for it inferiority to 

 no other institution " in general urbanity to all strangers." 



Mr. Richard Smith, surgeon, Park Street, Bristol, in a 

 long communication, argues to the above effect; and, although 

 we heartily grudge the space this uncatholic squabble has 

 already taken, we must extract those of Mr. Smith's remarks 

 which relate to the charge made by Mr. Conway (p. 126.), 

 namely, the Bristol Institution " will not permit a stranger to 

 have access to its library, merely allowing him to see its 

 curiosities." — J! D. 



Regulations. ..." To these rooms [the rooms for reading 

 in] members shall have the liberty of introducing imme- 

 diately any person residing beyond ten miles of the city, either 



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