Addresses & Papers / Collectanea Part 11

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NOTES.

{16} 1908. For the last five or six years I have practically been an abstainer, and my health has greatly improved in consequence. I am now eighty-three years of age.

{29} Read September 28th, 1886, and reprinted from the "Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society," Vol. iv.

{33} It is noticeable how they both do the same thing, in a precisely similar way, at the same time, and this applies even to the att.i.tudes they a.s.sume.

{36} April, 1887. They have just been again weighed, after their winter's hybernation; and their weight now is, respectively, 2 lbs. 7 ozs. and 2 lbs. 2 ozs. Thus each of them has lost 2 ozs. in the seven months of quietude.

{38} Read November 29th, 1892, and reprinted from the "Transactions of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society," Vol. v.

{44} Read before the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, February 22nd, 1887, and reprinted from Vol. iv. of the Society's "Transactions."

{53} Read before the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, January 30th, 1900, and reprinted from Vol. vii. of the Society's "Transactions."

{57} A further photographic view of this grand tree is given in the second edition of this book, published in 1906: but before this time the tree had been topped and shorn, and had lost the grandeur and beauty which had made it so remarkable.

{72} Read by the President, to the Members of the Norfolk and Norwich Naturalists' Society, at their Eighteenth Annual Meeting, held at the Norfolk and Norwich Museum, March 29th, 1887.-Reprinted from Volume iv.

of the Society's "Transactions."

{80} It is now known that the nodules found upon certain growing plants are caused by germ growth, with the production of Nitrates and thereby a fertilization of the soil. And it is worth noting that at the present time (1908) it is being endeavoured to utilise this knowledge of aerial nitrification by certain plants, by artificially applying a liquid preparation of the germs which are the active agents in the process to the seeds of these plants or to the growing crops. The results of such applications, so far, are alleged to be effective and commercially advantageous.

{88} This grand Castle Museum was opened by their Royal Highnesses the Duke and d.u.c.h.ess of York (now Prince and Princess of Wales) on October 23rd, 1894; and this Society's meetings are now held in it.

{90a} A Paper read at the Church in May, 1891, before the Norwich Archaeological Society.

{90b} Kirkpatrick's Streets and Lanes of Norwich.

{97a} Described by Mr. Manning in Vol. x. of Archaeological Society's "Transactions."

{97b} The large East Window of the Chancel has recently been filled with a handsome design of stained gla.s.s, by Clayton and Bell, of London, and presented by the Author.

{99} Read before the "Literary and Debating Cla.s.s" of the Church of England Young Men's Society, on March 7th, 1906.

{101} Mr. T. West Carnie, in a little volume ent.i.tled, "In Quaint East Anglia," speaking of Norwich by night, says, "If Norwich is beautiful by day, with the August sun kissing its red roofs, it is as lovely by night under the beams of the harvest moon." "Under the moonbeams Norwich makes a pretty picture from whichever point it is viewed; and the effects in some of the narrow streets are very wonderful. I mind me of one special 'set,' if I may so call it, namely that in which, from St. Giles's lower end, the street entirely in shadow, you look out westward upon the lofty church tower sheeted in moonlight against a clear sky."

{106} The writer of this paper.

{108} Further, it may be noted, that my clock is a striking clock, and as such is of considerable value to the large body of workers who live within sound of the bell, and who have to begin or return to their employments at fixed times.

{113} A very handsome and ill.u.s.trated volume on the history of this Bethel Hospital, by the late Sir Frederic Bateman and Mr. Walter Rye, has recently (in 1906) been published.

{117} Those who have read Mr. Hooper's and Mr. B. Prior's admirable souvenir of the Nelson Centenary, so recently published, will remember how it is there stated that this statue was at first placed in St.

Andrew's Hall; then after a year or two was located in the Market Place, near the Guildhall; and then in 1856 was removed to its present position in the Upper Close.

{121} Reprinted from the Society's Journal.

{123} This Portrait was reclaimed by and returned to the Churchwardens of St. Peter's in 1900.

{135a} Quincunx-a square with a central object, as of five trees arranged thus-