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geological discoverer, early despaired of forcing science on the University, and would take no steps to promote it until the British Association, meeting at Oxford in 1847, proclaimed in tones which left a sting behind the scandal of its miserable equipment and its inefficient teaching. From this time the advocates of reform threw a new spirit into their efforts : their numbers, largely increased, were led by a champion of rare force, persistence, tact, and prescience. In Henry Acland, lately settled in Oxford as a medical practitioner and Lee's Reader in Anatomy, they possessed, say the authors of this little volume with equal truth and justice, a protagonist who had the patience and perseverance, the enthusiasm and unflagging energy, needed for both waiting and working....The foundation of the Museum, and to a great extent the establishment of an Honour School in Science, were in the first place due to his efforts."

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A few men still survive who were contem: porary with, and took part in, the ten years' struggle which preceded the renaissance. On one side was an acknowledged need: professors demanding space for apparatus, specimens, lectures; stores of material overflowing their narrow bounds, and locked away in drawers or boxes; the old Ashmolean a mockery; Buckland's treasures houseless, as was the unrivalled entomoOn the other side all logical Hope Collection. proposals for a new museum were vehemently opposed-by conservatism hating all things new; by economists predicting limitless outlay; by Tutors jealous of Professors; by classicists denouncing science as intrusive; by the orthodox condemning it as subtly ministrant to false doctrine, heresy, and schism. Acland "worked and waited," gathered round him students, published letters and pamphlets modestly representing Science as the handmaid, not the rival, of Theology; by this means converted Pusey, whose nigra pecudes throughout the country, obediently following their leader, turned the scale of Convocation votes. In 1856 30,0001. were granted for the immediate erection of a Museum; the first stone was laid by the Chancellor, Lord Derby; and by 1860 the partially completed building was handselled by the famous British Association meeting, at which Wilberforce and Huxley disputed over Origin of Species.'

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The beautiful details of the new edifice, superintended and developed by Woodward's genius, brought Art as well as Science into Oxford. Woolner and Pollen, Morris and Burne-Jones (the two latter still undergraduates), served under and helped him; Ruskin came to bless, suggest, contribute. Busts of the great men of science, from Bacon onwards, were presented by munificent donors; the columns of the arcades represented a geological series; their capitals were carved in botanical sequence by the Irish brothers O'Shea; the iron supports of the central glass roof were wrought into fruit and foliage by Skidmore.

All these interesting details, already lapsing into oblivion, are rescued and preserved in Dr. and Mrs. Vernon's careful compilation, which enumerates also the famous teachers whom the New Learning brought successively to enrich the professorial staff: Phillips, Brodie, Rolleston, Clifton, Moseley, Burdon-Sanderson, Turner, Prestwich, Tylor. One deserving name we are

sorry that they should have omitted-that of Charles Robertson, Aldrichian Demonstrator, and Tutor for the Anatomical School. Many men notable to-day look back with gratitude to his conscientious teaching; many, too, amongst the most beautiful biological preparations on the Museum shelves are the work of his dexterous fingers.

Living into the opening of a new century, Acland saw, in space, cost, extension, usefulness, his conception trebled; saw ideas embodied which he could not have imagined, yet which were evolved from his immature origination, and due to his self-sacrificing toil. So it has always been. Other men labour, that we may enter into their labours; we in our turn sow and rear, in the belief that, to an extent beyond our knowledge, yet not beyond our hopes, we are forwarding the cause of humanity.

Longer Poems, with Introduction and Notes by The English Parnassus : an Anthology of two Scotch professors, Mr. W. M. Dixon and Mr. H. J. C. Grierson, is another of the excellent The volume collections of the Clarendon Press. begins with the Prologue to The Canterbury Tales,' and ends with FitzGerald's Omar The Preface indicates that in the Khayyám. case of this poem, and Tennyson, Browning, excluded the use of some later emendations." and Arnold, "considerations of copyright have The last phrase is inadequate in view of the changes Tennyson made in Mr. Dixon, who has produced a 'Primer of Tennyson, knows perfectly well that the whole of Canto XXXIX. as printed in the final form of This fact should have been frankly stated. We In Memoriam is missing in the text used here. doubt if it is fair at all to reproduce earlier versions of pieces worked over with the utmost care by an artist like Tennyson. At any rate, both in his case and that of FitzGerald the edition used, with the year of its production, should have been

indicated.

In Memoriam.'

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TENTH SERIES.-VOL. XII.

[For classified articles, see ANONYMOUS WORKS, BIBLIOGRAPHY, Books

RECENTLY PUBLISHED,
EPIGRAMS, EPITAPHS, FOLK-LORE, HERALDRY, OBITUARIES, PROVERBS AND PHRASES, QUOTATIONS,
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A. (F. A.) on authors of quotations wanted, 288
A. (H.) on hollow loaf foretelling death, 155
A. (O.) on Napoleon's laurel-leaf wreath, 289
Abbey churches, lantern-slides of, 187
'Abbey of Kilkhampton,' key to, 323, 450
Abbot (John), Westminster scholar, 172
Abbott (E.) on Collinson family, 168
Abrahams (A.) on Bank of England and specie

payment, 205

Carlyle and Freemasonry: Richard Carlile, 58
Cotton's Waterloo Museum, 210, 512
Crusoe (Robinson), literary descendants, 7
Dorset Gardens estate, 146
Eel-pie shop, 26

Fastolf (Sir John), original letters, 257
Gravestones at Jordans, 129
Heber's library, 228

Hengler's Circus, 116, 218

Keith's Mayfair marriages, 127

Kendal House, Isleworth, 88

Le Sour's statue of Charles I., 225

Leaden figures, 28

Pigott's Jockey Club,' 174, 412
Pryor's Bank, Fulham, 128

Rosamond (Fair), 298

St. Dunstan's-in-the-West: its clocks, 49

St. Margaret's, Westminster, east window,
269, 453

Strawberry Hill Catalogue, 216, 491

Temple Bar, 166

Westminster Abbey: western towers, 64

'Abridgement of Calvin's Institution,' 12

Abyssinia W. H. Coffin in, 108, 230; Spanish

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oath, 56

Parodies of Kipling, 238

Ackermann (R.) on Thackeray queries, 27

Acorn, 18-gun brig, and slaver Gabriel, 28

Actor v. preacher, 246

Fylde

Actors, travelling, courts for, c 1477, 267
Actresses, notable, their burial-places, 449, 513
Adam (F. A. S.) on parodies of Kipling, 128
Addison (Joseph) and death, 346

Addy (S. O.) on combined monastic and parochial
churches, 168

Scottish churches, their ownership, 168
Adoxography, meaning of the word, 387
Agassiz (Robert) and Mlle. Langes, 7
Agri on astronomy in the middle Ages, 9
Albany Baths, York Road, Lambeth, 429


Alleyn (Giles and Christopher), of Holywell, 341
Allot (R.), errors in England's Parnassus,' 235
Althorp (Lord) in the House of Commons, 1806, 6
Alvary or Alvery, Christian name, 309, 397, 416
Alveredus or Auveray, Christian name, 397, 416
Alvery or Alvary, Christian name, 309, 397, 416
Amberelli (Marie), Court of Requests, 258
America, 5th of November in, 364, 458
American on Spare family, 130

American Hygienic Press Association on vacuum
cleaning, 308

American Indians, monuments to, 87, 230, 358
Amyraut (Moses), Westminster scholar, 209
Anderson (P. J.) on bibliography of theses, 27
Bibliographical terms, 205
Historiographers Royal, 106
Inverness bibliography, 227

Andrasta, alluded to by W. Baxter, 1733, 489
Anecdotes, parliamentary, works on, 227
Angel or Anger (John), d. 1751, 6
Anniversaries, book of, 428

Anonymous Works:-

American in Paris, 410
Daniel Fosqué, 169
Excursion to Jersey, 38

Gin a bogie meet a bogie, 509
Golden Lyre, c. 1830, 407, 473
Horæ Subsecivæ, 1620, 101, 162

How a Man may choose a Good Wife, 1602, 67
Letters of Runnymede, 80

Short Whist, 264, 318, 357

Vortigern and Rowena, 508
Yahoo, 130, 177, 275

Anscombe (A.) on Cyranus Lucii Regis Pincerna,

269

London: origin of the name, 114

Antiquary's Books, suggestions, 383

Apperson (G. L.) on "All the world and his wife,"

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De Quincey quotations, 139

Hopscotch, 329

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Apples, their old names, 137, 254, 398
Apssen Counter, in Sussex will of 1583, 349
Araminta,' comic recitation, 288, 338
Arbeiter on Right as a trivet," 376
Archer (H. G.) on Braile's big well, 367
Delaval (Sir Francis Blake), K.B., 476
Louis XIV. Tablecloth, 451
Statues in the British Isles, 277

Archibald (R. C.) on William Gush, painter, 267
Architect on Godstone stone used in the City, 227
Architecture, Chinese god of, 29

Alexandra Institute for the Blind, its history, 68 Arden family, 386

All right, origin of the phrase, 228, 314, 433
Allchin (J. H.) on Caxton's birthplace, 394

Aristotle: Tommy Short on, 70, 392; and the
Golden Rule, 510

Arkle (A. H.) on "Forget not to give," 269
Green (Walter), M.D., of Liverpool, 285
Willme (J.), 15

Armour, parish, 16th century, 422
Arms. See Heraldry.

Army, British, c. 1763, 449, 517

Army List, of Battle of the Boyne, 308

Arnold (Matthew) and the yew, 287, 336, 414
Arrowsmith, Devonshire artist, c. 1820, 309,

355

Arthur (Prince), 1502, and window in St. Mar-
garet's, Westminster, 269, 357, 453
Astronomy in the Middle Ages, 9, 71
Augustinian house at Steeple, Essex, 210
Austen (Canon G.) on Whitby Church, 468
Austin (A.) parodies of his poems, 128, 177, 238
Austin (Roland) on Abbots of Evesham, 78
Cainsford, Gloucestershire, 436
Australasia, Macaulay on olive trees in, 86
Automaton dancers, Dickens on, 58
Auveray or Alveredus, Christian name, 397, 416
Aviation, use of the word, 86; early attempts at,
126, 178. See Flying Machines.

Ayno (Guy and Agnes), and Heynow family, 61
Ayrshire, ships of Spanish Armada wrecked off,
249, 330, 393

Ayscough (S.) and Taxatio Ecclesiastica Nicho-
lai IV.,' 107

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Axon (W. E. A.) on British Controversialist,' 173
Crozier (Robert), Manchester artist, 355
'Daniel Fosqué,' 169

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Johnson (Dr.) and Strahan's Virgil,' 85
Moore's Lalla Rookh,' 368

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Newspapers in 1680, 243, 358

Paltock (R.), author of Peter Wilkins,' 286
Shylock tract, 76

Southey (Robert), 46

Vegetarian, its derivation, 511

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Abridgement of Calvin's Institution,' 12
Bier-Right: ordeal by touch, 137
"Branne and water," 78

Cab cabriolet in Dickens, 514

Christmas Bibliography, 506

Crusoe (Robinson), literary descendants, 79

Dickens Shakespeare: woodbine, 411

Elizabeth (Queen) and 17 November, 404

Gow (Neil and Natt), 172

Gray's Elegy' and ploughing customs, 391
Hen, white, 16

High Stewards temp. Elizabeth, 513
Imprisonment: jury, 68

Louis XIV. tablecloth, 498

Paine (Thomas), his remains, 118
Pestal (Col.), 95

Pig grass fioning grass, 92
Postscript of a woman's letter, 18
Shakespeare illustrations, 84
Womack (Dr. Laurence), 492

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