PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY AND BOTANY OF CHILI. 103 





BY E. C. EEED. 



Head at the General Meeting, JVovemher 6th, 1873. 



Although I have now resided four years in Chili without 

 forwarding you any notes of its natural history, yet I can most 

 honestly assure you that it has not heen from lack of inclination 

 to do so. Although I have been for the last nine years a dweller 

 in foreign parts — a wanderer upon the face of the earth — yet I 

 frequently look back with pleasure upon the many evenings that 

 I have spent at the meetings of the Bristol JS'aturalists' and 

 Microscopical Societies, and I am very happy to see by the 

 ** Proceedings " that some good work is done by the members. 



New scenes, new Faunas and Floras are joyous things ; I have 

 felt and still do feel most keenly the pleasures of contemplating 

 nature in her own domains in parts new to me, but I doubt if 

 these repay one for the home pleasures lost. 



Tropical forests offer great attractions to the naturalist, but the 



