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they, being well trained, generally behaved themselves. But when, 

 as frequently happened, a rabbit, in the middle of the service, 

 popped out of one of the holes, and began hopping about the 

 church, it was too great a temptation for the poor dogs to with- 

 stand, and a regular hunt began. The minister being naturally 

 scandalised by the occurrence of such scenes of confusion, got the 

 holes filled up at last, and the rabbits banished. Nothing could 

 give a more characteristic picture than this. 



I have no more to tell, but should any of you now feel an 

 interest in this curious old church, and resolve to go and see it, if 

 you are ever in that part of the country, niy object is gained. It 

 is well worth your while to do so, for there is a quaintuess and 

 genuine savour of antiquity about it, which, to me at least, gave 

 far more pleasure than has the sight of many a church of infinitely 

 greater pretensions. 



W. J. P. "Wood next read a paper on ' The Organ.' 

 The President here announced that the Society's annual picnic 

 having been sanctioned by the Head-Master, would take place on 

 Saturday, loth July, and he proposed that a vote of thanks be 

 given to the Head Master for his kindness. This proposal was 

 seconded by T. H. Warren, and carried unanimously. 

 W. Oliphant then read the following paper on 



COFFEE. 



Coffea is a genus of Cmchonacece or Rubiacecc, comprising 

 fifty or sixty different species, the most interesting of which is 

 the Coffea Arahica, or Coffee-tree proper, from which we obtain 

 the berries used for making the beverage coff'ee. 



To the order of CinchonaceiB belong some very valuable trees, 

 which grow chiefly in the valleys of the Andes. These trees are 

 evergreens, and owe their value to the medicinal properties of 

 their barks. The best known barks are the Peruvian and that 

 from which quinine is extracted. The cinchona trees grow in 

 clumps in the dense forests of Peru, and are very often surrounded 

 by such a luxuriant growth of underwood and trees of various 

 kinds that they are with difficulty approached by the bark collec- 

 tors, who often spend long periods in the forests looking for them. 

 The word cinchona is said to have arisen from the name of the 

 wife of a viceroy of Peru, who brought the drug from South 

 America in 1639. The coff'ee shrub {Coffea Arahica) is a native 

 of the mountainous regions in the south of Abyssinia, where it 

 grows wild in great profusion. The tree grows to the height of 

 about twenty feet in its wild state, but, for convenience in gather- 



