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and was interred at Jordans on the 5th of August. He not only 
suffered imprisonment for his religious views, hut was also deprived 
by William III of his Government of Pennsylvania. This was 
restored to him before his second voyage there. Although he 
returned to England each time on behalf of his province, the 
reason he was so much in this country after the grant to him of 
“ Pensilvania ” (so in the Charter) seems to have been that he 
considered the interests of the Society of Eriends, who were 
suffering much fanatical persecution, demanded his presence here 
more than it was required in his American province, where all 
were free to worship in accordance with their religious belief. He 
wrote many works, chiefly religious, of which the most celebrated 
is ‘ Ho Cross, no Crown.’ This was written in the Tower during 
his first imprisonment for heresy, and was printed in 1669. It has 
frequently been reprinted and has been translated into several 
foreign languages. 
After strolling for a while in the woods, and then having tea in 
the Meeting House, where the above-mentioned incidents in the 
life of William Penn were given (rather less fully) by the Director, 
the party returned to Watford and elsewhere by way of Chalfont 
St. Peter, Maple Cross, and Rickmans worth. 
Field Meeting, 4th June, 1904. 
TRING AND THE CHILTERN HILLS. 
About once in every three years since 1894 the Zoological 
Museum established at Tring in 1889 by the Honourable Walter L. 
Rothschild has been visited by the Society by his permission on 
a Saturday afternoon, a day on which it is not open to the public. 
On previous occasions the members have been conducted over 
the Museum by the Director, Mr. E. Hartert; this time Dr. II. 
Jordan acted as guide. The meeting was under the direction of 
Mr. H. Kidner, and the party numbered about twenty. 
The general features of the Museum and the most interesting 
specimens exhibited have been mentioned or briefly described in the 
reports of previous visits. A few animals only which have not been 
noticed before will now be referred to. 
Amongst the Mammalia, of which there are representatives from 
all parts of the world, two Monotremes (Ornithodelphia) attracted 
special attention. One, the spiny ant-eater (.Echidna aculeata ), is 
a terrestrial species from Hew Guinea, with beak-like jaws, a long 
and slender tongue, a body covered with hairs and spines, feet with 
strong digging claws, and a very short, almost obsolete tail. The 
other, the duck-billed platypus ( Ornithorhi/nchus anatinus), is an 
aquatic species from Australia, with a flat, duck-like snout, a short 
tongue, mole-like fur, webbed feet, and a broad and flat tail of 
moderate length. The two creatures thus differ greatly in 
appearance, as they also do in habits, yet from their internal 
organization they are placed in the same order, Monotremata, 
