PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES. 
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(ion and Christianity , a popular history of the treatment of the natives by the 
Europeans in all their colonies; a work which proves that the writers philan¬ 
thropic sympathy is not confined to any race or nation, and unfolds a dark 
chapter in the history of human nature, and which cannot fail to produce the 
most extensive and beneficial effects. Within the last two months, also, he has 
published a little book which will gladden many a fireside, The Boys Country 
Book , a real life of a country boy—being in fact his own early life. He is now 
employed upon a work which was announced in the Rural Life of England as 
Visits to Remarkable Places , old halls, battle-fields, and scenes associated with 
English History and Poetry. 
Mr. Howitt is a naturalist in the truest sense of the term ; and his Book of 
the Seasons , no less than Knapp’s Journal of a Naturalist , and Jesse’s Gleanings 
in Natural History r , has in no small degree tended to excite a real and lasting 
love of Nature in the minds of thousands who had previously bestowed but little 
attention on the subject. 
PROCEEDINGS OF NATURAL-HISTORY SOCIETIES. 
BOTANICAL SOCIETY. 
The report of this Society for 1838 is before us, and from it we shall make a 
few extracts. President —Mr. J. E. Gray ; Curator —Mr. Daniel Cooper ; 
Secretary —Mr. G. E. Dennes. The plan of appointing local secretaries is 
judicious; and among them we notice the names of Mr. W. Baxter, Mr. C. 
Conway, Mr. T. B. Hall, Mr. T. G. It. Hylands, Mr. R. Leyland, Mr. Edwin 
Lees, Mr. D. Stock, Dr. Krauss, Mr. A. Wallis, and other naturalists favour¬ 
ably known to the public. 
The number of Members amounts to one hundred; of which forty-two are 
Resident, thirty-four Corresponding, and twenty-four Foreign, and forty-seven of 
whom have been elected since the last anniversary; the Council are happy to 
state, and we are glad to hear, that no members have seceded. 
The Council refer with pleasure to the list of donations to the Library, received 
from Messrs. J. E. Gray, E. Charlesworth, W. Baxter, D. Cooper, G. E. 
Dennes, J. Rich, W. F. Rock, Neville Wood, Dr. Krauss, and the Botanical 
Society of Edinburgh. 
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