32 Notes and News. 
its top only about three-quarters of a mile off the summit of the 
Buttertubs Pass. Then again, the view from Ladies’ Pillar on 
Mallerstang Edge includes the whole range of the hills of the 
nglish Lake Country, from Helvellyn to Skiddaw. Altogether, 
we have but to commend this latest work of Mr. Speight’s as by 
no means inferior in interest and in value, to ean of his previous 
works. —_W.D 
NOTES AND NEWS. 
By the death on the 24th of November of the Rev. F. A. Malleson, M.A., 
vicar of Broughton- ieturnes , at the advanced age of 78, another of the 
old sc pate le hie s gone rom us. young man when his friend, 
Ww. Borrer, middle ages he learned in a good school. Although 
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have been more frequent. In later life the plants of his oumath rish 
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uch work » 
his early years no doubt deterred him. The few ‘localities Seconiaaiin ‘The 
Naturalist,’ May 1893, are all that I know of, contri ribu ted toa scientific 
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him to say he did not ahoresiate,, ‘and professed not to cudeeutao, the 
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b ders weeny feet o January 1896 (p. 253) cir the following 
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supposed moral or wenshecie | qualities. Mr. Ruskin seems to have been 
mage serious in his suggestion ; but no one else has taken it seriously, and 
remains as one the srektiawt of Mr. Ruskin’s works, rned 
vith all the a inguage and beautiful drawing of which he is such 
a master—a literary curiosity, athe nothing more.’ To whi 
a sing of poisonous gen 
very curious they are, but quite worth the attention of any botani 
has oe sa pressing or bearers on besos to ~. aad time, 
