PEEPACE. 



It is with considerable pleasure that we are able to lay before 

 the members of the Clifton College Scientific Society the 

 SECOND Part of its Transactions. Six months only have elapsed 

 since the issue of the First Part, but the reception accorded to 

 the new publication has been so favourable, and the subsequent 

 proceedings of the Society so interesting, that we feel sure no 

 apology is needed for the production of another record of the 

 progress of science amongst the boys of Clifton. The past 

 half-year has been especially noted by the long-expected open- 

 ing of the new Museum and Botanic Garden. This event was 

 made the occasion for an exceedingly agreeable and successful 

 conversazione, which will not readily be forgotten by those 

 who had the pleasure of attending it. We have given as full 

 an account of the proceedings as our space permitted. It is 

 pleasant to be able to add that the Museum and Garden thus 

 inaugurated are already well-stocked and in good working 

 order, while the use made of the collections, and the evident 

 interest manifested in them throughout the College, seem 

 abundantly to justify their formation. 



The papers read at the Society's meetings have been as 

 numerous as previously, and the attendance of members and 

 visitors has in no degree fallen off. There is still much to be 



