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persons; but on August 31, the garden superin- 
tendent reported that all hits of the grass having 
trodden down had disappe 
No games were permitted in the gardens, but, 
notwithstanding this dene the P ap- 
peared thoroughly to enjoy their holida 
In following eo pes their services gratui- 
жу 
Morninc, 
у West oce 9nd Life Guards. 
2. East Bandhouse, Royal Horse Guards (Bl 
{ sa, Garden West, 15th (London Saget 
$. West annexe, A. Division of Police. 
à, East annexe, B. Division of Police. 
AFTERNOON. 
1. West Bandhouse, Grenadier Gua 
2 Fast Bandhouse, 1st Middlesex на жү; 
gp № rden West, Ist City of London R.V. 
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4 T M E 48th een R.V. 
ad Cm and ions of Police. 
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as Central Bodas Duke of York's Sehool. 
Proceedings of the Society. 
LECTURE ` RAFFLESIA ARNOLDI. * 
Mn. BATEMAN. 
Delivered at ae General Meeting, June 27th, 1865. 
» Lord Henry Lennox, M.P., in the Chair. 
в. Ватемам began by observing, that when i 
e 
umatra, Dr. чен һаа — x 
he woods, 
* 
Tus! ue катык Ж, in the ‘ Tinneas 
ERS It is also n noticed in Hook, * Companion, un 
ie D OD Ann. Ве. . Nat! f. 14,8. Another 
species ' is beautifully figured in 
‘the е ала дуна 
P ЕН Kew ti W E 
came running to him with wonder in his 
immediately went with the man about 
into the jungle. "The rest of the party hastened 
; ‚ growing apparently on a stem 
wound itself round a huge t as a flower а 
yard across. The whole flower was very у 
places в three-quarters of an inch; the substance of 
it was very succulent. When Dr. nold first saw 
m of flies t 
r ow 
for E veu canh which are most 4 astonishing 
f the flowe 4 а full ya 
nt? wn 
decided that it was se a жг, ; 
ant, ; 
ordinary pene р - ri Б to де 
У that parasites and 
е would о i 
pr frequently as they are eonfounded together, 
are in reality very differe ings. Th m 
ago, all orchids that trees term 
arasites—a most unfair and injurious stigma to 
ss upon a race of plants that are per ly 
less, and wh 
A except their ‘stay’ — hence the odern mo: 
лаа Salla tion of * Т epiphytes; from єтї, "e 
and фото, à р The true parasites, i e 
mtrary, are—like our own misletoe—e ding 
mischievous; for, not ith fixing и - 
selves on the roots nd es of trees, 
batten upon the vi эми n: a that e citet by 
ns of their penetr 
suem case, Dr. yee ip ad hese ag the reya 
on whi flower was prodi was the о 
hich the flo ^g 
stem of the Raflesia itself ‘but it was en e x 
issi Vine ‘which w 
pariat а а Tisi, and on which the eed 
„w parasitica to Brown, 16 
