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[L. maculatum.'] — Yeo. 



Myoaotis arvensis. — Marlb. 



M. collina. — Yeo., Ox, 



Anchusa arvensis. — Geld. 



Primula vulgaris. — Tiv., \V. Ho, Yeo., 



Marlb., Islew., Ox., Geld. 

 Lysimacliia nemorum. — ^Kil. 

 Daphne Laureola. — Yeo., Marlb., Islew. 

 Buxus sempervirens. —Marlb. 

 Euphorbia Helioscopia. — Tiv., Marlb., 



Islew., Ox., Camb.. Kil. 

 E. Peplus. — Marlb.. Tslew., Ox., Camb. 

 Mercurialis perennis. — Tiv., W. Ho, 



Yeo., Marlb., Ox., Camb., Geld. 

 Urtica urens. — Yeo., Ox. 

 Ulmus suberosa.— Tiv., W. Ho, Yeo., 



Marlb., Islew., Ox., Camb. 

 U. montana. — Yeo., Marlb., Ox., Kil. 

 Corylus Avellana. — Tiv., W. Ho, Yeo., 



Marlb., Islew., Ox., Camb., Geld. 



Summary:— Tiv., 53; W. Ho, 45; Yeo., 63; Marlb., 63: 

 Islew., 26; Ox., 55; Camb., 38; GelcL, 21. 



Almis (jlutinosa. — Tiv., Yeo., Camb.. Kil. 



Populus canescens. — Tiv., Islew. 



P. alba.— Tiv. 



P. tremula. — Camb. 



P. nigra. — Yeo., Marlb., Ox. 



Salix viminalis ? — Tiv., Yeo., Marlb.. Kil. 



S. Caprea.—Ti\., Yeo., Ox. 



Taxus baccata. — Yeo., Marlb., Islew., 



Ox., Geld. 

 Narcissus Pseudo-narcissus. — Tiv., W. 



Ho. Yeo., Marlb. 

 Galanthus nivalis. — Tiv., W. Ho, 



Marlb., Ox. 

 Ruscus aculeatus. — Marlb. 

 Poa annua. — Tiv., W. Ho, Yeo., Marlb., 



Ox., Camb. 

 Dactylis glomerata. — Camb. 

 Bromus sterilis. — Ox. 

 Hordeum murinum. — Camb. 



CHAELES DARWIN. 

 By Alfred W. Bennett, M.A., B.Sc, F.L.S. 



Chaeles Robert Darwin (whose death was announced on 

 p. 160j was born at Shrewsbury m 1809, and sprang from two 

 distinguished grandparents, — Erasmus Darwin, the author of 

 ' Zoonomia,' and Wedgwood, of pottery renown. His father 

 was an eminent and successful medical man ; and his two 

 sons, George and Francis, enjoy the perhaps unique distinction 

 of being the fourth generation in direct descent who have been 

 elected Fellows of the Royal Society. Darwin was educated at the 

 Shrewsbury Grammar School, and at Cambridge, where he took 

 his degree in 1831. The ancestral love of natural science very soon 

 showed itself ; and in the year of his degree he accepted a proposal 

 from Captain (afterwards Admiral) Fitzroy to accompany him as 

 naturalist in his voyage round the world in the ' Beagle.' Darwin's 

 first published work was his ' Naturalist's Voyage Round the 

 World' (1839), a narrative of the scientific results of this expedi- 

 tion ; followed m the course of a few years by ' The Structure and 

 Distribution of Coral Reefs' (1844j, 'Geological Observations on 

 Volcanic Islands' (1842), 'Geological Observations on South 

 America' (1846), and a ' Monograph of the Ch-ripedia' (1851-54) ; 

 the last published by the Ray Society. These works, extending as 

 they do over several branches of Science, at once attracted the 

 attention of older naturalists. In particular the close and keen 

 observation of Nature exhibited in the narrative of his expedition, 

 the clearness and cogency of argument in the exposition of his 

 views as to the mode of formation of coral-reefs, and the mastery of 



