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Title: Springtime and Other Essays

Author: Francis Darwin

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Language: English

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SPRINGTIME
AND OTHER ESSAYS

BY SIR FRANCIS DARWIN

AUTHOR OF "RUSTIC SOUNDS"
AND OTHER ESSAYS

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WITH ILLUSTRATIONS

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LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.

1920

_All rights reserved_

CONTENTS

PAGE
SPRINGTIME 1
SOME NAMES OF CHARACTERS IN FICTION 15
THOMAS HEARNE, 1678-1735 29
RECOLLECTIONS 51
OLD INSTRUMENTS OF MUSIC 71
THE TRADITIONAL NAMES OF ENGLISH PLANTS 99
SIR JOSEPH DALTON HOOKER 115
A GREAT HOSPITAL 137
SIR GEORGE AIRY 161
SYDNEY SMITH 175
CHARLES DICKENS 199
A PROCESSION OF FLOWERS 201

ILLUSTRATIONS

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PSALTERY AND DULCIMER (_By kind permission of 72
Messrs Cornish_)
MANDORE, PANDURINA, LUTE, THEORBOE, ARCHLUTE, AND 76
GUITAR
THE CRWTH 79
THE TROMBA MARINA 81
VIOLA D'AMORE, CITHER VIOL, AND HURDY-GURDY OR 82
ORGANISTRUM
RECORDERS