. gardeners, with 
the PESA cost for 
ENN SEER TS) E ET E 
Fzsnvin 27, 1864.] THE GARDENERS' CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE. 199 
J ‘ein Willies (tau cire = 
“The ASSISTANT SECRETARY then read the following | been offered in respect to the publications of the A singular discovery promi ses to give some clue to 
letter from ti a : Soc was adopted. the date of the Pyramids. It was found “that the 
of West minster, Februar, 13th, 
ance "I s^ 
e Horticultural Ga nares 5, 
1860, js Majesty's Com 
k rac the A lau o of 
of 21451. ti E A 
ajesty's Oe aeons larg emm 
BI00L, exclusive of a muc expende 
ern Arcades. By clauso ia x this agree 
Commissioners are "des by way of rent to a sum 
annum, being after the rate Jot 411 per cent., kehrt the 
rent or vec nove payable to the Commissioners under 
both agreements amount to l. 15s. 
i en of the share of surplus profits 
finn nos of a sum not 
acquai int yo u, for the in for- 
that it is the intention of 
ex 
exceedin; ; I am directed to 
ep Boone ‘of — I 
arge interest by way of rent 
Lam esty's Commission 
ped of 49001. m" 
“The 
ended 
d vmi of the Fellows as ge as possible." 
my 
ciety, the pa p 
Ir. _ CHE R then moved the fur ther resolution : — 
Wd wi wks it a draft pana. byelaws io a 
nen which mape inwards from the n 
thes ur inc 
2g ANDREW WAUGH seconded the motion. schel speaks of this *as a whicl 
J. Sm NEY SMITH soni that the course} hardly be supposed to have been unintentional, and 
viste would create much unnecessary con s was doubtless connected with the observation of that 
and therefore he asked Mr. Chester not to pre s his star, of whose proximity to the pole, at th och 
ronis tion. the erection of th onderful structures, we are 
Mr. STER said he had not that intention in|thus furnished with a monumental record of the most 
t to w 
way. Council felt that the passing of the 
| resolution would create confhsion, anq expressed a 
wish to that effect, he wou has withdraw 
The Chairman and se of his c uo said 
they had [no objection ^ the resolution; which was 
pe cu: pot and carried unanimously. 
Prd remarks from Mr. See and 
hers, a de ot thanks Ea gt the Chairman 
the history of nation 
Babylonish captivity. 
We have endeavoured to give a very brief account 
e ihe plan of the work, and the penpe upon 
ich itis conducted. That d writer 
oth well 
foed and trustworthy the oubt, 
being, as he is. f th inei t 
| TR + 
oat the meeting separated. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL : mk . Smith, Esq., in 
the 
ler exhibited a collection | 
| Dictionaries of Greek and principa Antiquities, &e. _, 
Notes on Hospitals. By Florence Nightingale. Third 
Council will observe that this sum of 4,9001, added to Chair. The Rev. Ham 
the two sums of 50,0001. and. 5,1001. — alluded to, —_— of the Phytophagous Paar of Australia, formed Sard 1863. Longman & Co. Small 4to square. 
pletes the amount of 60, Ao “the expen diture of which was | by Mr, Wilson, of Adelaide; and also the species of p 
“er Majesty nem a e — e those insects collected b y Mr. F. Waterhouse during | The British nation owes a deep and lasting debt id 
ing to inform the po. of thes Society fy “having his overland journe Mr. R. Waterhouse exhi- gratitude to Miss Nightingale for her noble self-denyi 
bo ee tr por ox Anu is Cie their a m n bited several allied species of ius and Ontho- db T S Fegan when nos d € qom 
w i i ung like a dark cloud over a multitude of Englis| 
Asean Da ae he the SOSACS to | Philus, of which he detailed T characters. 
Tito cad por te outa of 60,00, being 200 | Danning, exhibited a portion of a coffee cask from | bomes. The stato of our hospitals in the Eas 
um eylon, destroyed by the larvæ of PU beetle, Probable deplorable, and the miseries endured by our brave 
Council will therefore observe that Her Majesty’s Com- m. Professor r Westwood exhibited | Soldiers stir e iei heart, ve and 
missioners — the advance of 13, e with sar a nominal 
addition to the rent at present payabl e by the Society. 
I have the were ^ A. Bin 
You obe: D nt, 
ym BOWRING. 
The Secretary to the Royal Horticul T; Society 
31-21. 4 
s the genus Anobium 
specim en of wild silk from St. Salvador, in Central 
Ameria, communicated by Mr. Daniel Hanbury, being 
spec ‘of tener insects. 
He also read the 
r 
ady o r 
d credit of the dnm orities, were thankfully accepted. 
The result speedily manifested itself in the i — 
€ E x the > military hos spitals, and the name H 
useum ; and also of a a “fine Molaris, 
reverted to ‘the numerous hs which were under 
discussion at - previous meeting, and = “tat he 
had ion - ded 
CHAIRMAN interposed ‘to inform the meeting 
that the Council had bumsidered that subject, and, had 
Án daa poeni collection o 
making the eyed at Chiswick a school of} ti 
gardening, in banks 
to iil sill the name of tnr geen in honour 
of the enry Rowley, by whom it was collected 
M esi, Mr. Smith P ae, interesting | 
wasps' nests i us stages o 
which the wasps had subsequently adopte 
for their abodes. 
* Further pm on Mr. 
- W. 
Thomson's Catalogue 
jut nmm following resolution. with respe ect to Luca ani æ. Wood ex hibited a block oflo 
sos a Committee | of cells, s 
‘present working of the gardens of Chiswick ma ay | what resembling the honey-] 47 of the Bombi but 
be made to conduce te the improved pen si considerably larger. General Sir J. B. Hea " exhi- 
[5-2 É to fra! 
and Treasurer as ez officio 
and also of the resolution which 
‘He thought am io» were much 
rman for his c 
ius asy Secretary, ae the Presi 3 
1 expresse his eis dà the letter 
cond 
| ACCESS] 
x 
Major Parry read er entitled 
ajor y meu ter wes 
ing 
mory rot man, ny au English family, ws sitions 
aa me: 
i d never will it be uttered by British 
rich and 
us bears ample ev 
defective state of hospitals in general, aol it is a happy 
circumstance, hi 
persuaded that nobody will ese “ Notes 
m Hospitals” without coming to the conclusion, that 
the volume thus modestly described is a well-arranged, 
lucidly writ tten, and most valuable treatise, on a sub: 
arsey ex 
bited a collection of beetles, chiefly from India and 
ina. 
It tartiing fact, to comm ia he b t 
esta in splendid hospitals, where apparently no 
33otíces of Books. 
xample of Sir Walter Raleigh, Mr. 
is “employed, should be actual y: “higher than any 
calculation — on the mortality of the same class 
of diseases g patients treated out of hospital 
would lead 
This leads. Mies N, toi inquire, first, | into the » sanitary 
t write “A History 
ensing his matter where 
ing special care on those periods and n 
;| history of eens is scarcely to be —— in any works 
cessible the general reader, ing the 
whole —: a common point t of VW view recs, 
em “Some cases m modi -— 
d rid m over, they foddi now | 
ttled, and ask the Council to make a 
serhion of the bye-laws, in order that such 
imme ee g., rtain 
y classical par tiality and national 
n the “matter of Biblical Chrentieay i Mr. Smith 
adhe eres to the dates given by Archbishop Ussher, as 
feos on the — — most Mà but subjoins | 
mparativ table o f the six chi ief epochs, from the 
to 
accor ing 
e gardens at 
xi enim, he concluded by moving the fol. 
in 
the = gt of an ie be ee m ^M 
assured an 
of the. psa suppor rot the > Fallows. 3a | 
as far as pee both at Chiswick and at 
ih Kensington, the 
oi Society : which scheme havin 
lamented President the P. 
, and has great yn reve of 
Er in Docomo Fello iers of: the Society, Life Fellows, 
are scheme for the | w 
Vater Aier Clinton, Hales, J: ackson, and Poole, 
he most celebrated modern chronologers. In the 
absence ^4 any other Sra sources of ini 
Mr. Smith makes bol 
an has tle ars over pointe vet 0 he proceeds, 
| there is nothing — in these earliest records, | 
e the v tá being corroborated 
T instance of this, is the 
mong the ruins of Birs 
ormation, 
| dino scovery o 
Nimroud, 
Mr. Smith's op’ =y n, nde the story of the confusion 
of tongues is on ere Hebrew tradition.” 
cussing x dinenion of the nations, in Chanter a 
cases to 
rire 
fon fern Bing ti made to the annual outlay 
maa the garden, Sir ton DILKE said 
existed 
ins 
Suggestions they had to 
ould, where practicable, be 
Sling. cimus “having Ln 
upon | flood 
the Bible genealogies (which ap 
be also ethnical take: 
) are n and a 
of pen is bo 
from the philol 
Mü 
conclusions 
crow 
CK p. 
to take the scriptural accounts 
t — 
t pe 
by m ng the womdal n "d reach 3 per cen 
sent; 1, fre 
of ai a 
and “de ociphered by Oppert, which proves, in | buildings, 
In dis- | and 
of obtaining accurate stat — arising from th 
cumstance, hat where “ the mortality which has taken 
place in a hospital i i 
n of those 
FE 
a subsequent period, the pim 
rranged in ten hea e make a 
the * defective kitchen ” 
oft Sick unable 
a tom of dni, : eur is of more impo 
most medicines, The nurse or doctor only finds ouit; 
circumstance 
an 
= been sick, or has had a relapse, and nobody : suspects 
that the men ‘or women in the kitchen had occasioned 
it. 
large plates are given of the plans of 
saat hai, and it is gratifying to find that 
e Herbert Hospital at Woolwich is spoken of in the 
of | Thi hen completed, 
be by far the finest hospital establishment in the 
| United Kingdom, or indeed in Europe.” The dre 
on convalescent hospitals will striko the reader 
