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rather wish to try to interest you. With a very few words, there- 

 fore, I will end. 



I know that very many — perhaps some of you — will ask the 

 common question, " After all, ' what's in a name,' especially in a 

 plant-name ? " Many would say there is nothing ; I think there is 

 a good deal, and that the study of plant-names is one, and not the 

 least pleasant one, of the many pleasant ways into which the study 

 of Botany leads us. Every science is many-sided, and Botany very 

 especially so. It has its commercial, agricultural, and economical 

 sides ; it may be studied medically and practically ; it has its 

 antiquarian, its literary, and its poetical aspect ; it has even its 

 moral and religious aspect ; and it has much to interest the 

 etymologist. It is to this last point of interest that I have 

 especially tried again to call your attention this evening. Very 

 slightly indeed have I done so, and that purposely. It was very 

 tempting to have gone further — to have said more on the influence 

 that our Enghsh love of flo-wers and gardening, and our English 

 plant-names, have had on English literature and the English 

 language — to have said something on the way in which our plant- 

 names have passed into our surnames, and into our names of places 

 — to have gone even more deeply into the botanical science of 

 many of the plants that I have picked for you — and especially to 

 have gone more deeply into the etymological puzzles and diffi- 

 culties of our plant-names ; but I was warned from entering on 

 these by-ways, however pleasant they seemed, not only by the 

 length of time allowed for my paper, but also because I knew very 

 well, that while I probably might not interest and amuse you in 

 following them, I should most certainly very soon get out of my 

 own depth and lose my way. 



The Mammalia and Other Remains from Drift Deposits 

 in the Bath Basin. By Chaeles Moore, F.G.S. Read 

 March 'iQ, 1869. 



In offering some obsei-vatious on the mammalia and other 

 remains in the drift deposits of the Bath basin it will be desirable, 

 BO far as possible, to fix certain points — some milestones in oui- 



