a 
June 30, 1860. ] THE GARDENERS’ 
CHRONICLE AND SoA EED GAZETTE. 603 
Societies. Th 
TICULTURAL. — 
Hor — An Ordinary Meeting of this 
Society, for the yp og 
of Fellows and Ballot for 
the same discontinuous areas, 
latter 
siz. is r Gra 
That it offers no scientific axphaniition of the present 
distribution of spec 
as at the present time. 
is understood to be Fog view of Professor | 
this view Profess ay objected :—1 
r the present EEE anse of the same species in such 
widely separated stati 
To 
ies over e lobe; but Notices. of Books. 
u 
t as 
mply 
‘thi hings 
, ee (= 
Plants, was held on June 26, at the ee explanation, by affirming, the 
and Art, South Kensington, by permission of the Lord | now are, 80 ae were at the begi er A whereas the | Metaphysics, or the Philos losophy of Consciousness. By 
President of the Privy Council, The Earl of Ducie, V.P., | facts of the case—often very peculiar—appear to Henry Longueville Mansel, z= D. Pp. 398. Adam 
in the chair, when the following Ladies and Gentlemen | demand from science something an th na direc anid Charles Black, re 
were elected, viz.:—Miss Bridge, Miss M. Bridge, R. Serie of the dre ne Divine at a wonderful power is 5 hat e by which the 
Catheart, Esq., J. J. Chalk, Esq., Rev. V. K. Child, S. | wil. 2. That the idea of the eral of wk similar o or | ata its attention inwards, its 0 
Churchill, Esq., Miss M. Courtoy, Miss E. Courtoy, T. conspecific indiv iduals fr rom a common stoc k rA ns,” yet how few Englishmen i in “the present day of 
alton, Esq., Madame E. Faure, W. Garnier, Esq I stle and activit to Locke, ; 
isbet Hamilton fi d Ste on’t care whether the 
M a må 
and allis, Esq. he ballot for plants ome 
then proceeded with. The list af those selected for dis- 
this 9 sorts—chiefly | i 
re if the trial a TEENE y, it 
as a matter of c 
th iat the present ra sof 
= E 
ret 
That, since it is conced 
d is of vgn long 
robable, not t 
3. 
the worl 
ma ity ains. 
as when the pet ai eeta was held 
von pen be oe 
in question, sa a pi re of high ti 
greenhouse ardy ornamental shrubs (see p. 551), dating bac ~~ post-tertiary, or even to the later tained without a- ¢ mpetent pre 
which will x Fee to en successful applicants soon | terti ware di tates must bios: been subject | W” tings of he 2 a es as ty 8 imoti kpa oan 
after the Ballot on the 24th July, along with any other | to grea ic changes, x caused: by | the Stagyrite calle is works ed the course 
plants ere may have gained. no naemen pena changes in ier Tame extent and | Of met: Ag gar for nearly 20 centuries, and 
Flor al Committee, Sune 28.—Several Seedling Pelar- con nfig guration | of the land—tl jections formerly the they fm inten oked wp on as a grand specimen of what 
Ea t wide di f species lose most | capable “of accomplishing. But 
To two irar ‘these, of their force; the explanation of such pan and Mr, M 
ard, fi là 
on the upper petal 
exhibitor also sent a very I ha ee me heavy- edged Pink 
for which was awarded. Other 
Plants consisted of the orange- ses Dracwna indivisa 
from Mr. St tandish 
lled pl “Stansfield. To 
Ls a of these Fi be the paein oroat were awa ded. 
essrs. Carter came a white var 
achilletolia sir i Fascia Th ‘a large pale x _ 
Ned m Mr. Geo. | 
a 
difficult of explanation. — He p 
tells us “ ‘Ariotle’s philoscp vy has lttle in common 
À of the rer mind, and his 
specuations will probably appear to a modern reader 
sufficiently v: ague and barren.” 
or| Mz. course contains much that has 
| an interest for a certain class of minds, and a to 
nt | be well arranged ; but | as for expecting our readers to 
; Àl een psych: and 
“ti i view ; ee a we more che pre ‘they bong side with 
?| that Pope who, issued a bull agains dan 
TOHOW 
ver ane thought 
osed to to illustrate F 
itable repr 
Magnet, 
Fairest of the one 
canariensis. These a seawall eg of commenda- 
tion. Mr. Butler, of Woolwi ich, sent the rare Bsa 
vola Digbyana and Pha lænopsis. rosea, and from | 
Messrs. Milne & Co., came some very pretty varieties of | 
erect growing Gloxinias. : 
AMERICAN A 
pam 11, 18 age 
CADEMY ll ARTS AND SCIENCES, 
rh nit nga cen 
or Agassiz eae that ts aaial kingdom 
a rese: ce between its: representatives of | 
rth ‘inert and Eastern Asia similar to 
by Dr. Gray in the flora, and that he life long. 
pecially pointed out in detail 
ace of Testúdina ata, in his. Contributions to the 
N He ackno mone 
i ne 
e- 
aracter grea with the dis- 
his 
covery that he had b 
. So too, in 7 of tee we can’t help 
“ oun 31 
1111050} phn 
He 
of consciou ets us even tales. 
Who does hoi NA Aodio the little mardi t that fell asleep 
upon the king’s highwe yy sht 
came uw 
distressing predi cament, so coii rary to all Toite ex- 
to him 
on 
e ws ascribe 
and would defend “them e ground t jian 
ti f things v Top that which 
E OF JAP. 
series of illustrations of the Botany o; 
a et ntr ral and N 
eanld be shown | Perienies of self, she doubts her own ctr om ? 
y gave 
Sapa in its “relatio ons se gi 
Asia, Europe, and Nortl 
A 
that 
t} + 
sth 4} 
« Sure this can’t be I. 
being a sant soi of one o hit 
at t the last Par ge meeting. He showed ‘tiie the 
ns of byt Fe of Ja with that of the fof 
a assumption of extensive kien or a a pie 
-faunee from one area to another. 
the praeit aeribution of animals * 1 908 linke a 
ex 
cluded | Alas! poor maid, He painful consciousness of self was 
nht to be thus got rid of— 
shiver and she began toshake:” 
United State of the Missi: issippi were peculiar] y He. viewed the similarity between the fanna of North-| It may he safely A that his 
eee AN ne by nano deena in the | the ult o pie peti AA rere alae ced F age OUR DE 
of close! represen ative, and of identical species in the | the result of climatic changes over an area primi “ 
two flor ae ing e specially that most of the more} more homogeneous Bous time organic productions aad EETA ort and he knows me.” _ 
striking role f were prese! prone in species ee ros by climatic changes, but as a primitive ber 
or in types which are absent from th ‘a of Europe. wos n of bie ne types to similar corresponding Under the title of Seemann’s British Ferns at n 
, that although there is a feat number ef ich have remained cart of thes stage view, (Van Voorst), we have a map showing tt means 
species common e western of small well selected specimens the che so ese 
mo de 
continent and to Japan, yet that the like as less Adin with Dr. Gray t! the im g ist bet the 
ong between their floras than between thiige of of even the presen nt period, he did not: "ink that t the wild Ferns. The pr ue. are by om Fitch “to the 
tern North America and of Japan, although of Ferns 
i exists between wre difiorént rae Sb y 
upon 
RAES ty poy canes 
the whole Pela, cou nd have tes 
even. essentially 
arden Miemo 
o rope, or even: in Asia; ified by. „Wi th reference io the single pares 
thus pointing to able interchange between the | 0 thou Sie that the, warfare Meira ATEREA clad Gopta NURSERY, 
ia; ‘tn oxine.—Few within 
floras s of Eastern “North America and Eastern Asia; or | w Eei sake a $ PR 
and East-Asian floras, to a e onih nn opt to that | could have ori hiegi laih ti ty pair, yes P idant Seral or instruction than this. It contains, as most 
of the Arctic or the de hei: ireng” To présen t pagaria that the a appearan no of the same speeies on | people n ay por acres of Rhododendrons, and among 
time. Comparisons formerly instituted. hy  eitessor Ld t or opposite parts of the globe adm mee of them are ; f iaten standards in England. 
Gees bes hatag ee flora of ai —— United States explanation, by supposing that ori ginally a um, a rosy lilac kind, 
and that er parts of th b errit e of the pclae he rids piis "Cas ohenie O£ this 
ha Fonie sted t Wate: dt o himself, | all the species capable of flouris — in that climate great quantities are still i in full bloom aptori engaia 
the inference that the interchange between these Toras | so long as the climate remained stationary ; , nd that in weather sub 
d vid As 3| the ie of E a great portion of these plants had | jected, and owing to r large size the ey form rm cob- 
and it would be seen that rhe afi I „under the casualties to which | spicuous objects ce; their great 
knowledge of the ota any of the atiga and of e | plants e liable, some having disappeared altoget bushy heads, bein 
Himalayan regions strengthened this rebar p and iths ers remaining only in localities, defined by patel to goo 
ting the subje ect, Professor Gray could hardly longitudes, i in d different parts of the same zone; so that | smaller plants 
the words “interchange” and“ ay, while the general character of the | Of brighter colour a 
used them only in drawing his vegetation a aieea in different hemispheres and| scarcely so large 
, and wished t o do sufficient number of species might be | & variety which | forme, the l da 
n iny Sani = pos sn hemisph fraga urse not so glo some 
investigation had naar his | sent a part of the This- ion | the brilliant crimson kit anigo 
terms were properly employed. | appeared to a ti i bear Bi NYS m $e ght ini 
h-some:of ould at. firs med ee had more recently migrated from any existence. Of the latter one either f : 
most readily explicable supposition of the| one country to its antipodes, _ over the inter- | ba iad sok i he Fa 
a origin of those wh a siate regions, Professor Gray rejoined, that his Pa E unsurpassed. at 
o8e present geographical | fap reg $ a a, is likew ss ıb crin 
ane - Widely t opinion, they | views would in a good degree harinoniso with those anum rimson 
‘wou! i f : resident, the important exception that he r ai : ri 
case, far} the President, impo red k well deserves atten Seps 
more conformable to the hypothesis of a single local | regarded. any Saved more ho poen p% fee a m s pier s ie 
ë a . 
me i zly And in his | temperate flora sap irag cat he = reamed with s pure ali "with a inei = poting ‘or the upper 
ri med, a this must. 
Tt 
etually present potili; well nw nd a 
eee 
al whence has Agassiz m regal eat a Alarm is also a 
itte ; bati i i rimitive | be regarded as a 
trac! in some cas permitti a kon ga mae jar TE tats, of ai than | beautifal kind, with mn “pre tae weet with 
anges in climate or other physical | now were ever common to Japan and to New England, cp geen Cigars de Brabant too aurwell WON roto ention ; 
pipe rag operating ee Ee eo ae eS wel a to hi to and Tomes Ñ è likewise a we round un- 
nim uncerta 
prot E wet paurs; george oyote groin, ANE ; but he | had. n no re named some with remarkable 
here it now 
pre in ii anes a a number of individuals sige ci and w. 
eedli 
was unnecessary $9 “preva nting | for nari size, i p black blotches 
and generally the same area, 
