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■under specially favourable natural position, and it would be 
interesting to know if it has or can flower in the neigh- 
bourhood in less favoured spots. 
The Chaemerops have a special interest from having been 
found fossil in the Miocene of Europe, and even in very 
high Arctic latitudes. 
Besides the Fortunei, the Ch. excelsa and Ch. humilis are 
common in England in cultivation. The excelsa is only 
half hardy, and requires protection 'mder glass in winter. 
The humilis is a south European spc ' Q s, but flourishes 
out of doors at Osborne, though it requires pi ^ection in the 
shape of matting in cold weather. 
All the Chaemerops grow in temperatures comparatively 
low when compared with that required by other palms. 
According to Hooker,' the Chaemerops martiana grows at 
8,000ft. in the West Himalayas, where they are annually 
covered with snow. 
Some of the Chaemerops Fortunei in Kew Gardens will 
be about 10 to 12ft., and at the Loyal Gardens at Osborne 
there was in 1860 (Hook) one 10ft. high, which had 
blossomed for three years running without any protection. 
“ Table of Effect of Movement of the Surface of the Globe 
on the Shifting of the Axis of the Earth,” by Arthur W. 
Waters, F.G.S. 
After reading my last paper I examined further the in- 
fluence of the position of land and seas upon the shifting of 
the axis of the earth, and prepared the following table for a 
paper elsewhere. 
The present distribution was taken, and to And the in- 
fluence which this would have the globe was divided into 
2,500 divisions, viz., 5 degrees of Longitude by 5 degrees 
of Latitude, and then the effect of movements in one 
quadrant was calculated by means of Professor Haugh ton’s 
corrected formula. 
