THE JOURNAL OF THE 

 BEDFORD LITERARY AND SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE AND GENERAL LIBRARY 



LITERATURE 



SCIENCE 



ARCH>EOLOGY 



ART 



POSCES LIBRUM CUM LUMINE." HOR. 



Vol. I. No. 5. 



APRIL, 1892. 



Price Twopence. 



Contents. 



PAGE 



C)FFICERS OF THE INSTITUTION FOR THE YeAR 65 



Reports of Meetings of the Council and List of Books 



Added to the Library 66 



The Gerund Grinder's Lament 70 



Opera-Glass Astronomy' 71 



Arcpi^.ological and Natural History^ Section 74 



Notes on the Bedfordshire Flora 74 



Where to go in the Holiday's? 76 



A Birthday Letter 77 



Geological Map of Bedford and the Neighbourhood .. 78 



Suggestions and Enquiries 79 



The New Catalogue 79 



Memoranda 80 



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Printed at the " Mercury " Press, Bedford. 



