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them to others also. Wide as the conquests of science have been, 

 there is much yet for it to do ; and its true followers, .vhatever the 

 vantage ground they have attained for themselves, will never thmk 

 lightly of those— low as their position may have been— to whom 

 science owes its first beginnings. 



Lord Bacon, quoting the celebrated Roman philosopher, says— 

 » It is a pleasure to stand upon the shore, and to see ships tossed 

 upon the sea ; a pleasure to stand in the window of a castle, and to 

 see a battle, and the adventures thereof below ; but no pleasure is 

 comparable to the standing upon the vantage ground of truth (a 

 hill not to be commanded, and where the air is always clear and 

 serene) and to see the en-ors, and wanderings, and mists, and 

 tempests, in the vale below;" "so always," adds our own 

 great philosopher, " that this prospect be with pity, and not with 

 swelling or pride." And he concludes with the remark that 

 « certafnly, it is heaven upon earth, to have a man's mmd move 

 in charity, rest in Providence, and turn upon the poles of truth."* 



Remarks on Some of the Fangi met with in the Neighhourhood of 

 Bsdh By C. E. Broome, M.A., F.L.S. Continued from pa(/e 

 98 of the Second Volume of the Proceedings of the Bath Natural 

 History and Antiquarian Field Club. Bead Jan. \8th, 1871. 

 The most highly developed family of fungi, the Hymenomycetes, 

 has been treated of on former occasions before the Bath Field Club ; 

 on the present occasion it is intended to follow the arrangement 

 adopted by Mr. Berkeley, in the " Outlines of British Fungology, 

 with one exception. The family that comes next in order is that 

 of the Gasteromycetes. It takes its name from two Greek words, 

 gaster, a cavity, and muke, a fungus ; its chief character bemg that 

 its spores are produced on an hymenium or fructifying membrane 

 more or less concealed within a peridium or envelope, consisting ot 

 closely packed cells, of which the fertile ones produce spores seated 

 on little spicules, which are at length exposed by the rupture or 

 decay of the inves ting coat or peridium. But^ before^roceed^ 



• Essay of Truth. 



