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." 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 gathered round him students, and waited,' 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 30,000l. 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 'The Origin of Species.' 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. The volume Tales,' and ends with FitzGerald's Omar 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. 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A.) on authors of quotations wanted, 288 Abbey of Kilkhampton,' key to, 323, 450 Carlyle and Freemasonry: Richard Carlile, 58 Fastolf (Sir John), original letters, 257 Hengler's Circus, 116, 218 Keith's Mayfair marriages, 127 Le Sour's statue of Charles I., 225 Leaden figures, 28 Pigott's Jockey Club,' 174, 412 St. Dunstan's-in-the-West: its clocks, 49 St. Margaret's, Westminster, east window, 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 priests in, 189 oath, 56 Ackerley (F. G.) on Haughendo ": Parodies of Kipling, 238 Ackermann (R.) on Thackeray queries, 27 Acorn, 18-gun brig, and slaver Gabriel, 28 Actor v. preacher, 246 Actors, travelling, courts for, c 1477, 267 Fylde Actresses, notable, their burial-places, 449, 513 Addy (S. O.) on combined monastic and parochial Scottish churches, their ownership, 168 Adoxography, meaning of the word, 387 Alleyn (Giles and Christopher), of Holywell, 341 American Hygienic Press Association on vacuum Andrasta, alluded to by W. Baxter, 1733, 489 Anonymous Works:- American in Paris, 410 Gin a bogie meet a bogie, 509 How a Man may choose a Good Wife, 1602, 67 Short Whist, 264, 318, 357 Anscombe (A.) on Cyranus Lucii Regis Pincerna, 269 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 Statues in the British Isles, 277 Archibald (R. C.) on William Gush, painter, 267 Alexandra Institute for the Blind, its history, 68 Arden family, 386 All right, origin of the phrase, 228, 314, 433 Aristotle Tommy Short on, 70, 392; and the 355 1820, 309, Arthur (Prince), 1502, and window in St. Mar- Astronomy in the Middle Ages, 9, 71 Ayno (Guy and Agnes), and Heynow family, 61 Ayscough (S.) and 'Taxatio Ecclesiastica Nicho- Axon (W. E. A.) on British Controversialist,' 173 Johnson (Dr.) and Strahan's ' Virgil,' 85 Newspapers in 1680, 243, 358 Paltock (R.), author of Peter Wilkins,' 286 Shylock tract, 76 Southey (Robert), 46 Vegetarian, its derivation, 511 B. Christmas quarrel fifty years ago, 508 "Correct to a T": "Right as a trivet," 435 Deaneries unattached to cathedrals, 469 Historical MSS. discovered, 497 Pneumatic tyres, 445 Yew in poetry, 477 (R. S.) on J. Burton, J. 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