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JOURNAL OF THE PLYMOUTH INSTITUTION. 
for in it we see a plant occurring over a small portion of Cornwall 
away from the coast, together with a little piece of Devon in prox- 
imity, not appearing again until we reach the Spanish peninsula 
and the south of France. Bentham speaks of it as " a mountain 
plant, occurring here and there along the great European chain 
from the Asturias to the Caucasus." 
I have now glanced at what seem to me to be some of the most strik- 
ing facts in distribution shown by the Umbelliferce species in Devon 
and Cornwall. I have brought them forward as being suggestive 
of queries for botanists and other scientists to ponder over and en- 
deavour to answer. I have also tried to indicate subjects connec- 
ted with local botany that seem suitable for the enquiry and 
research of members of a learned and scientific association, such as 
our Plymouth Institution and Devon and Cornwall Natural History 
Society. 
OUK DANISH ANCESTOES. 
SYLLABUS OF LECTURE BY MR. D. SLATER, M. A. 
(Read February 22nd, 1883.) 
England and Scandinavia in the Pleistocene Age. The Pre-historic 
Period. The Bronze Age ; the Iron Age ; Historical Period. The 
Danes ; the Northmen. The Danish account of their own origin. 
The Scandinavian Mythology; their Cosmogony. Of Kagnarok. 
Characteristic differences of Danes and Norsemen. The newly- 
found Viking ship (one thousand years old). Danish remains in 
the North of England and in Devonshire. Effects of the Danish 
immigrations on the English language and literature, commerce 
and character. 
