284 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
number contains sixteen octavo pages of manuscript (three being 
about equal to one of ours in quantity), and in order to increase the 
amount of information afforded by it, each article is condensed as far 
as it conveniently can be; all irrelevant matter being omitted. As the 
object is Natural History generally, the larger part of the numbers 
naturally treat of zoology, but there is a considerable quantity of 
botany in each of them. The following remarks by a lady on the uses 
of Naturalists’ Field Clubs is deserving of attention. Speaking of that 
established at Liverpool, she says :— 
“I believe the purpose for which it was established was to excite an interest 
in Natural History generally, and to awaken a taste for the study of it, and 
this Iam sure it has effected in the botanical department, the only branch 
When the first winter approached, Mr. Higgins proposed country maT 
the purpose of collecting and studying Cryptogamic plants, when he eo 
give any instruction required, provided only that those who joined would really 
meeting, learning much, and bringing home many new thoughts and facts. 
“Mr. Higgins was assisted by several good botanists, so when the members 
increased there were still teachers sufficient. 
* After that, Dr. Collingwood gave a course of lectures on structural —: 
and Mr. Marrat and Mr. Fisher on practical botany, all of which were w 
attended, by those who were only too glad to be thus helped. ; t 
“ At once, then, two great wants were supplied ; acquaintance with or 
and opportunities for obtaining instruction (and immediately, by appointme 
presetit curator, the botanic gardens became botanical). Now these advan- 
tages have been derived directly from the Field Club. : 
The lady workers well know the encouragement given by the puis 
prizes, but I merely mention them now, to say that all who have E 
received prizes have derived their knowledge of botany entirely from the 
vantages given them by the Field Club i eid 
=e ear néw candidates are arising, and the impulse given by this fate 
instead of diminishing is regularly increasing ; and the taste for the stu s 
Natural History will continue to increase as long as similar means 270 
ployed. «O. GRUNDY: 
“ Upper Parliament Street.” 
