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best," opening with the following quotation fro m 

 "The Autocrat of the Breakfast Table"; "One- 

 storey intellects, two-storey intellects, three-storey 

 intellects, with skylights. All fact-collectors who 

 have no aim beyond their facts are one-storey men. 

 Two-storey men compare, reason, generalize, using 

 the labours of the fact-collectors as well as their 

 own. Three-storey men ideaHze, imagine, predict. 

 Their best illumination comes from above through 

 the skylight." He then went on to show how, in 

 the society, there were one-storey men who 

 collected facts, specimens, etc., and made records 

 of them ; two-storey men who, as well as collect- 

 ing, studied the structure, habits, and peculiarities 

 of species ; and three-storey men who, beyond the 

 scientific and practical, studied the aesthetic, 

 poetic, and ideal side of nature. Continuing, the 

 President said no society was at its best until all 

 the members were hard at work, and it should 

 be the duty of every member to assist the 

 recorders if they found specimens, and in all 

 cases they should make absolutely reliable entries, 

 as they were often used by scientists of repute, the 

 late Charles Darwin himself referring to the 

 subject. In studying the structure and habits of 

 animals, good solid text -books were the best. There 

 were books which, although very interesting reading, 

 imparted no great amount of practical knowledge. 

 While keeping collecting well to the front they 

 should take greater interest in the structure or 

 habits of the animals or insects they studied. 



NOTICES OF SOCIETIES. 



The South London Entomological and Natural 



History Society. 

 Feb. II. — " Photo-micrographs of Entomological Subjects," 

 with the laniem, by F. Clark. 

 ,, 25. — " Notes of Observations during my holidays at 

 Freshwater and in Scotland." By Hy. Tunaley, 

 F.E.S. 

 Mar. II. — Discussion on " Insect Protection.'' Opened by 

 C. G. Barrett, F.E.S. 

 ,, 25. — Lantern Lecture by Fred. En^ck, F.L.S., F.E.S. 

 Apr. 8.—" On the Nature of Genera." By J. W. Tutt, F.E.S. 

 ,, 22. — " Paper by E. Step, F.L.S. 



Papers have also been promised by F. Merrifield, F.E.S., 

 G. R. Grote and others. — jky. J. Turner, Hon. Report Sec. 



North London Natural History Society.— The following 



are amongst the fixtures for next session: 

 Feb. II. — Discussion on " Overcrowding and its Remedies." 



Opened by L. J. Tremayne. 

 Mar. 27. — Visit to the Epping Forest Museum. 

 Apr. 8. — Discussion : " 'The Filices or Ferns." Opened by 



R. W. Robbins. 

 May 13. — " My trip to Highcliffe, and what I found in the 

 Barton Beds." J. Burman Rosevear, M.C.S. 

 ,, 15. — Whole-day Excursion to Brentwood. 

 „ 27.— " Dorsetshire Notes." J. Wheeler, M.C. P. 

 June 4-7. — Excursion to the New Forest. 



„ 10. — Debate : " Is Vivisection Justifiable ? " 

 „ 19. — Half-day Excursion to the Lea Valley. 

 There will also be a special-family discussion entitled, 

 " The Liparidse," to be opened by A. Bacot on some date 

 not yet fixed. — Lawrence J . Tremayne, Hon. Secretary. 



Lambeth Field Club and Scientific Society. — We have 

 received the following list of fixtures for the forthcoming 

 session : 

 Feb. I.— "The Uses of Beauty in Nature." Miss C. A. 

 Martineau. 

 ,, 15. — Discussion on " Electricity." Opener, W. Rivers. 

 Mar. I. — "To Norway in Quest of a Shadow." A. C. D. 

 Crommelin, F.R.A S. 

 , 13. — Visit to Natural History Museum. 

 ,, 15. — Photographic Demonstration. H. W. Cosson. 

 April 5. — " Simple Types of Plant Life." E. J. Davies. 

 „ 10. — Visit to Zoological Gard'ins. 

 „ 19. — Easter Monday. — Outing to Effingham. 

 May 3. — " Some of our Smaller Song-birds." E. W. 

 Harvey-Piper. 

 ,, 8. — Outing to Sanderstead (with Selborne Society). 

 „ 22. — Visit to Kew Gardens. 

 June 7. — Whit-Monday. — Outing to Cheshunt. 

 ,, 19. — Outing to Caterham. 



H. Wilson, Hon. Sec, 

 14, Melbourne Square, Brixton Road. 



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CORRESPONDENCE. 



SuBSCRiPTOR Ignoramus. — Will you explain your desires 

 a little more fully to Mr. F. C. Dennett, 60, Lenthall Road, 

 Dalston, N.E., who would always be glad to receive sug- 

 gestions for the improvement of the Astronomy column. 



EXCHANGES. 



Notice. — Exchanges extending to thirty words (including 

 name and address) admitted free, but additional words must 

 be prepaid at the rate of threepence for every seven words 

 or less. 



Offered, thirty-five species Maltese land shells, Miocene, 

 Kimeridgian and Liassic fossils, all named. Wanted, 

 microscopical literature, condenter and lamp. — T. Cooke, 

 Thorndale, Lincoln. 



Offered, nice nests, with data, of dipper, stonechat, 

 sedge-warbler, grasshopper-warbler, chiff-chafi^, goldcrest, 

 creeper, coal-tit, grey wagtail, rock-pipit, corn-bunting, gold- 

 finch, lesser redpoll, twite, water-rail. Wanted, clutches 

 of eggs in British list. — R. J. Ussher, Cappagh, Lismore, 

 Ireland. 



Wanted, offers for Science-Gossip, 1885 (plates), 1886, 

 1887, i8go, 1892 ; also cuttlefish, spiders, anemones, etc., all 

 preserved in spirit.— W. Gomm, Overndale Villa, Downend, 

 near Bristol. 



Astronomical telescope, 2J object-glass, brass table- 

 stand, two astro, two terrestrial eye-pieces, suncap, in 

 mahogany case ; desiderata, microscope or accessories. — A. 

 Henley, 303, Strand. 



Many foreign shells, chiefly marine, in exchange for other 

 foreign shells not in collection.— W. Turner, Liberton, Edin- 

 burgh. 



Several good pigeons for exchange, comprising Blue 

 Chequers and Antwerps ; desiderata, scientific instruments, 

 books, minerals, birds, eggs, shells, or offers.— Ashley Rose- 

 vear, 113, New King's Road, Fulham, S.W. 



Machaon, Crataegi, Edusa, Aglaia, Cinxia, Athalia, Iris, 

 c-album, Cardui, T. quercus, Rubi, Betulae, Lineola, 

 Paniscus, etc., and many moths wanted ; number of dupli- 

 cates to offer.— J. Bastin, Ivy House, New Road, Reading. 



Six vols "English Flora" (Smith). Joyce's "Scientific 

 Dialogues," eight vols. "Cassell's Illustrated History of 

 England," Robinson's " Hardy Flowers," etc. : offers. 

 Wanted, books on mosses, dissecting and other micro- 

 scopes, or will exchange mosses. — Peter Yates, Astley, 

 Manchester. 



Beck's " Popular," " Star," and Ross No. 3, latest pattern, 

 with all accessories offered ; wanted. Beck's National 

 Binocular i8g6 pattern. — Sir C. Purcell Taylor, 2, Powis 

 Place, W.C. 



Offered, Prof. D. McAlpine's Zoological Atlas (Vertebrata 

 and Invertebrata), 40 coloured plates and nearly 300 figures, 

 published i8s. ; desiderata, lantern or microscope slides, 

 Cambrian, Glacial, good Carboniferous, Cretaceous, or 

 foreign fossils.— E. A. M., 69, Bensham Manor Road, Thornton 

 Heath. 



Offered, varieties of Helix nemoralis and H. hortensis, 

 and mounted specimens of Manitoba plants, in exchange for 

 microscopic slides.— F. Winstone, Ockeridge, Epping. 



Andri: Bonnet, 55, Boulevard St. Michel, Paris, oflre 

 (i) Coquilles eocenes du Bassin de Paris; (2) Coquilles 

 miocenes de Touraine ; (3) Catalogue raisonn6 and iilustre 

 des Coquilles oligocenes du Bassin de Paris, par M. 

 Cossmann, en echange de Coquilles tertiaires et racemes. 



