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REPORT—1847. 
returns to hts own locality and to his own particular department of science 
with renewed interest, with increased zeal, and perhaps also with a better 
direction given to bis observations. 
The rapid progress of the scientiBc knowledge of the animals of our own 
islands, and the great advance in the determination of the British Fauns, 
may be produced in illustration of the hi nefit tvhich has followed these as- 
^mbl^es, Md of the encouragement which the British Association, as a 
body, has given to the investigation of the facts anti to the publication of the 
results. ‘ 
In no department of the living works of the Creator has this been more 
manifested than m that humble and heretofore much>ncglected class of tlie 
molluscous or gelatinous animals which people the seas around our island. 
Vv rescued this branch of zoology from neglect, 
deserves early and honourable mention. ^The 
17 “* successful exertions with the dredge and with the 
X ami new species ofConchifero. Eehinoderma andAcalc 
of tLse r which he has deduced from the fruits 
Alder and Han/* L beautiful monograph by Messrs. 
cation bv tl^n Nndibranchiau. now in course of publi. 
XmltJd W n/ jT7^ ‘’T Zoophytes.just 
cated to the^/oohJ 1 r‘ discoveries aiintmlly coranmni* 
Mr TSection of the British Association by Ur Allm.'in 
observations on the shorea of ^ f' •** ‘be Iruit of his 
coasts of Cornwall B ?b2 , I’e-ach, from the 
other reports which have ” of the sectional meetings and those 
the British Association will bcst”'Sult ‘J’’by the grants of 
dreSr lllldS'r' »"■?>■ > -o ■a.e.^aJ. 
ancient authority froni whirlt «br.« ^ one passing reference to the great 
■*.m i,a proper pCin r"tio„%,“yL‘‘"''''1' '"S'- 
*niQd, the cnjtivatioa of which is tlm sciences of ijiorais and 
ctlucation of Oxford, is Jikew iso hW “bject of the academical 
the chics of Aristotle remar.I o '™ "‘'"■“•■•‘*1 ^cienc also, for.wl.iie 
claao to eminence as a grec oWrvor"o?'r™‘ P*' *"■“ Pt-fof'J reason, his 
the experience of 2000 ^ars iirislnl-- 'story retiiains also, aher 
I proceed now to mticTi^e ^ r n“* “"«'*<^rable. 
by the microscope and by clteS^ T! f ‘bese days 
le iving plant, and as to the armbi i “ ■ ® functions and uses 
P°"'^^'*b«7eaTwrare1 in cultiva- 
his ® collector in China wh ? ‘be Horucul- 
«'rrcsp„'X’m»”i,i'*' ‘ntlehtedTrihlrL^'' 
‘'»t.'“tlr':ilrf B““"i” GartC't the'^r of 
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