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CHRONICLE AND aeeeviaess GAZETTE. 
[Jure 14, 1860. 
Mr. Darwin the courage with which he ha d put,;from the neighbourhood of London. Stai rrat) was awarded to A. Henry, Esq.; and a second 
forth his decry he felt it must be tested by facts. pi a | exhibited eas a ea y tee ieee to | ke Earl of pa pelt for Prince Alfred. Grapes 
Parr on to the facts ge wh = the theory must be | received ay and As spidis sca splenderife- only | numbered a few dishes, bu t they ea went fine, 
m the e on vell coloured. rize 
tested, would refer to t Sgn me ia of the highest rella, — Son sai ic areenat E P ERE CER penn tothe Ha 
of the gorilla, it ie di th pare d from os —_ silkworm, fed ie the | of Ellesmere for # sish nk Ga Ma nde Melons, Cucum- 
2h tko hahrof and M: f Deile- | bers, Strawberries, &c., n qua Mi "bat good 
the brains of the very tend eh iio prblema phil “Se ‘alien at ek cot and Lewisham in polia Abridged from ‘he “Manchester Weekly 
form € of the Quadrumana. The Mr. Tegetmeier gave an account of a re emarkable | Advert 
gorilla and man were immense. | family of the honey bee which he had reared, there 
The posterior lobes of the cerebrum man graai being no green in the hive, her place being usu ed by we aioe Rose Snow. —This took place at the 
parts which were wholly absent in oe illa. The | certain of the workers differing from the rest in shape, Cry t, and was in all respects 
same Hing a able diffe: rig! of structure were seen in | whi ch (a py Acne ig "animpreguated by the > males, of which highly Seen there ooms shown on 
other par the body; yet he Sana especially de tl this than on any previ as occasion, and oan on be 
to the öiravtars of the great toe in man, which was | in an irr egular manner, there being sometimes sas m jen ae were in admirable co aE The 
hith to assume the upright a eor si in a single cell. Mr. W esto | attendance of visito report, togeth i 
tion ; whilst wer monkeys it was impossible, | exhibited some leaves of th sien paa ne bee ‘vith lists of the hiig sáros OwA will be given 
from the PEM rd are of their feet, that they should di | greatly injured by the larvæ of a mall y evil of | next week’s Number. 
He concluded by urging on the Bh siologist the neces bet 
sity of experiment. The ist, when in doubt, of the leaf, forming large blotches. They had b 
him from Ireland by Professor Tantes, 
ed by th 
ag Aniatis —Prof. Huxley begged | 
Pe : 
d him that the trees for a wide extent 
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neede 
= to be permitted to reply to Pr rof. Owen. 
get: her 
the brain of the 
b; gro of. 
shown e the leaves forw ion to Me Westw Damas or gad diyy 
Stevens exhibi alan arge s ys | 
eae he Som Com tof OEN aaa | 
to horses i in the interior of thet Continent, attacking 
Notices o of f aSoaks. 
The Rifle; and How 
to ans It. 5 ae Busk. 
Seventh ae 
Routledge. 
of the 
t 
ys i n 
He believed that the great feature 
-| It was 
latter | true Tsetse of “ate 
- | the co! 
mmon English cleg, but to a far — estent, | 
so that the horses die from their attacks 
n the 
ines oa an 
of six or eight weeks from exhaustion p 
fiy might not he the 
. Baly read a 
seen 
dining man from the’ monkey was the gift of 
Tn Bera size of “the Tind es) an a 
Cynips 
pena of the uer: nasol a gall fly which is 
PeRenort o mitting much pes ge t the you pa Oa 
Prof. Buckm an the author apei that i hed throughout the country, and o ich Mr. Smith had 
about 200 plots of ground occupied with various ot fewer than ie ,000 nai all of which 
praat mental crops, a fall account of which must be had proved to Sn po ales, whence, h la sal 
delayed, from the faik Wardies of the season on the | observ her species “of the 
„the arl 
one han nd, an tly pana of meeting of the 
In 
his case only a few of the 
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subjects of tot were rexpiined by the author, | H 
pace which we select the following :—Poa ee 
in question. He also it wee ea some 
menopterous insects from an New | 
Zealand ; ee r. Wallace rea ae ais rem n the |! 
wo specimens were shown t 
qu nestion o 
the Pema of certain rane etn 
d Mr. F. ap ve oo 
Mr. Busk repeats that “the result o 
the trial (in Chatham marshes in 1858) again povel 
most conclusively the su perior accu rae of a Lan: 
caster over the Enfield rifle.” ta subse. 
quent trial, “the Lan r evinced its Soper from 
| the first and maintained it throu, trial.” Such 
| being the case, and it being notorious to all acquainted 
m 
nnp in eas exclusively. 
Mr. Busk t can’ alw 
en of the Royal ‘Agata Cale, and another 
e Messrs. ing; these w 
identi be all their Seta Be the _ of interest 
the great a f differen si 
induced fo and the Tii on aati, waga 
been used. 
e new speci the 
| aspect of large a aN M show of diem 
very details from that | remarks fruits. The weather | 
ers is in fact held by the author to be as} was unfavourable, rain — almost in torrents | 
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species, 
ager t fro 
n the | exhibition of the 
abe 
ways 
‘such a peia over that arm (the Enfield) as was 
displayed during a grr s the two at- Hythe, the 
EXHIBITION AT PRED ESTER.—The second and |; 
fruits, and flowers, 
on 
f plants, 
was held or me Botanical Gardens; Old Trafford, 
Wedn noe the 27th and 28th ult. — ‘The 
, but small, and 
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A cies 
he name 
Poa whatever; still it is really a Poa, so pw 
Glyeeria as Pilad tő it, isinadmissible. 
s h a been the su we of ee an 
method 
its 
ced, and its 
The Carduus bose the first prizo in 
d its markably 
Eight Stove and Greenhouse plants from Mr. Cole 
that class. In this group was 
ane also Pimelea Hen 
n this class 
ne ~~ 
ond pri 
y 
soni. se 
| Mr. Fallows 
and Dipladonia aie 
The 
had a fine 
developed Pern a at hee het oe 
t one stem of the plant may peran 
ois s, each having 170 seeds; 
A 
ange of ene Thistle, : SO 
sone 
to 
“pernicious org per ing ‘heed a roman À 
centre to incredible distances all around.—Col. Mu 
H. Micholls, Esq., who 
a and a 
eathartic: 
In enllections of four Stove 
ole 
mh a ar se Plants 
ar Esq., 
the new Ix ora “Amboinensis, which pro: nises to be one 
ast | | future servic 
ly | 
beautiful plant of Allam: iada 3 
whose group contained | ; 
as 
ustified in securing the 
of such ‘ain vido ent,” &c. We suspect 
that those ies saw the T at ‘Winble edon pd week 
will oD pause before the, y acquiesce esent 
or 
ain 
cult of loading, the 
expensive natur 
f the 
‘a 
a 
ume 
cat 
l we pres 
ammunition, to ‘say ip of the Shoppes ti 
rth 
awkwardness 
ac 
destri 
a Whitw a 
t=] OE 
aa hake 
his surprise that. the two see Saone 
Buckman should have been 
seeds, He regarded one as the Gigeria fata ome 
the ot! or P. 
tac 
near ete of Poa t 
ay 
Mr. C. C. Babin: ~<A 
its rich colours. d 
t the best eioht Orchids the fi 
1 
Turner, Esq., 
“group contained | 4. 
will n 
Fo 
elto J. A. M.P. iis 
amon other rare plants a spectabilis, with | 
whi 
eight spikes of bloom; also Cat eya Wageneri, 
in during the 
it 
A enha | beable eke to 
é ensemble the group was -truly a 
model one, and reflects infinite credit upon Toll, the 
Mr. Yates obtained the second prize. His 
pode oer a maye Cattleya lobata and 
The latter an upon 
Whe 
Rida lig or Hf 500 tae from the i oe b harig 
previously: freg 3 rounds and being a inta 
without cleaning, ha Enana firin: 
should bi 
g tipe beng allowed, 
h This sant to 
s 
a Whi worth the 
J.A.F us to be the only fair WAY 
taken in a prize of testi ese arms in. actu ual service. 
at Blackheath, a and two individuals of the grand -| To Mr. Cole warded Best} 
fly, Papilio Antenor, captured by Mr. Layard in Mada- | 12 ornamental iy ra In this group d Aralia | _ We hay a-siatpuind ina — eae b volnme of 
gascar, who had only been able to procure Siem D by | pulchra, which for decorative properties is perhaps Mr. sna s Di alien cos! on the old Glaciers of 
shooti ing at them with a gun, the lofty flight of the | without a rival. x ‘Theophrasta imperialis in this group | Switzerland and a Wales (Longmans), which first 
t as a fine plant. Fts foliage looked extremely beautiful | pro in “P Passes, and Glaciers,” contributed 
Bond exhibited two specimens of the ve ry rare | badd healthy ; we may add that one advanta age o of this metubors of the. Alpine. Club. sane “ese in which 
Deilephan lineata, taken at Brighton on the 12th and | class of p Tape sae 
Tth i of the prece edin ng month; also two chrysalids or and out of s ond prize d to|is ie highly interesting, and ren ee this little volume 
emarkable se — length o H. Micholls, Fas td a a third A Captain Withington, trav aey of ariris in “North 
the case of the proboscis extending in urve over ‘ne whose group contained a remarkable bf gga Wales. Ta for instance Prof. Ramsay’s graphic 
breast, which were du t of a Pota o field near a ee um, one of the account of the Llyn Liya dae 
Canterbury aah autumn; ran a me cocoon of | pi etoi EA * Of all the er that lie in the heart of 
moth, formed b; ~~ ‘aa e for Fue hsias was awarded to Mr. S. | the agnificent is that of 
neert. Roebuck, for J. Renshawe, Esq. | Llydaw. It ae easily reached from Llanberis 
of a minut: The best ight Achimenes came from S. ck, | Summit of Snowdon, or by Cwm-glas over the 
‘ormed | Esq., who had Meteor, with brilliant crimson blossoms, | Crib-goch ; but both for the lovers of scenery 
hi e theme of general admiration. | those who specially care to observe its glacial ph 
s furnished by S. ck, Esq. mena, it is better to to go úp the Pass of Llanberis ; 
o” anapa vourable season for | Go see pr ewe ; or, if 
ham, and the 1 tk mew 
he great lnk Scien 
` Fruit first prize for a Pine (Mont- | 
rt 
Mad 
co À 
But ‘omitting bree ads its r to be hoped t that 
eee cial 
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Pia ier KS 
