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flowers of spring, and the old year linger smiling- 

 ly to twine a garland for the new. 



No wonder that such a spot as Torquay, with 

 its delicious Itahan climate, and endless variety 

 of rich woodland, flowery lawn, fantastic rock- 

 cavern, and broad bright tide-sand, sheltered 

 from every wind of heaven except the soft south- 

 east, should have become a favorite haunt, not 

 only for invalids, but for naturalists. Indeed, it 

 may well claim the honor of being the original 

 home of marine zoology and botany in England, 

 as the Frith of Forth, under the auspices of Sir 

 John Dalzell, has been for Scotland. For here 

 worked Montagu, Turton, and Mrs. Griffith, to 

 whose masculine powers of research English 

 marine botany almost owes its existence, and 

 who still survives, at an age long beyond the 

 natural term of man, to see, in her cheerful and 

 honored old age, that knowledge become popular 

 and general, which she pursued for many a year 

 unassisted and alone. And here too, now, Dr. 

 Battersby possesses a collection of shells, inferior, 

 perhaps, to hardly any in England. Torbay, 

 moreover, from the variety of its rocks, aspects, 

 and sea-floors, where limestones alternate with 

 traps, and traps with slates, while at the valley- 



