THE PRINCIPLES OF BIOLOGY. 
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On a plate, 2ft. 4in. by 1ft. 4in., below the figure is this 
inscription, with an anagram upon the lady’s name, ?.<?., 
a re-arrangement of the letters of her name in the form of a 
motto :— 
Memoriae Sacrum 
SvB ISTO LAPIDE MaRMOREO PLACIDE RECYMBIT ElIZA- 
BETHA PiOTTON, SlNGVLARIS FoRMLE AC VIRTVTIS VIRGO FILIA 
ET HiERES ThOIVLE ROTTON GENEROSI, ET MARGARETS 
VXORIS EIVS, QV.® IN FLORIDA (HEv) IYUENTYTE EX HAC 
Vita migravit 14° die Decembris A 0 M tatis swe 20 
et Salvtis nrjE 1638 
The Text at her Funerall. 
Math. 9 , 24 . The maide is not dead but sleepeth. 
. - f Elizabeth Rotton ) 
Ana S r -|l to A blest Throne. [ 
FrEINDS WEEPE NOE MORE: WHEN THIS NlGHTS SLEEPE IS GONE 
I SHALL A RISE, AND GOE TO A BLEST THRONE. 
Translation of the Latin :— 
Sacred to memory. 
Beneath this marble stone peacefully rests Elizabeth 
Rotton, a maid of rare beauty and virtue, the daughter and 
heiress of Thomas Rotton, gent., and of Margaret his wife ; 
who in the bloom (alas) of her youth departed out of this 
life on the 14th of December in the 20th year of her age, and 
in that of our salvation 1638. 
(To be continued.) 
THE PRINCIPLES 'OF BIOLOGY/ 
BY HERBERT SPENCER. 
Part III., “ The Evolution of Life.” 
BY C. H. ALLISON. 
Chapter XIII., “ The Co-operation of the Factors.” 
To more fully show that the truths of animal and vegetal 
development are expressible as manifestations of the abstract 
truths postulated in First Principles , the processes separately 
described in the four preceding chapters are in this chapter 
contemplated in their ensemble. 
* Transactions of the Birmingham Natural History and Micro¬ 
scopical Society. Read June 25tli, 1885. 
