TER AT FLORENCE--SIENA--LETTER
FROM LORD BROUGHAM--MR MOUNTSTEWART
ELPHINSTONE--LIFE AT ROME--CAMPAGNA CATTLE 230

CHAPTER XV.

ALBANO--POPULAR SINGING--LETTERS FROM MRS.
SOMERVILLE--GIBSON--PERUGIA--COMET
OF 1843--SUMMER AT VENICE--LETTERS
FROM MRS. SOMERVILLE AND MISS JOANNA BAILLIE--ELECTED
ASSOCIATE OF THE COLLEGE OF RESURGENTI AND
R.I. ACADEMY OF SCIENCE AT AREZZO 243

CHAPTER XVI.

PUBLISHES "PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY"--LETTER FROM HUMBOLDT--CHRISTMAS
AT COLLINGWOOD--LETTER FROM MRS. SOMERVILLE--FARADAY--LETTER
FROM FARADAY--KEITH JOHNSTON'S
MAPS--WINTER AT MUNICH--SALZBURG--LAKE OF GARDA--MINISCALCHI--POEM
BY CATERINA BRENZONI--LETTER FROM
BRENZONI--LETTER FROM MRS. SOMERVILLE--ELOGE BY
MINISCALCHI--WINTER AT TURIN--BARON PLANA--CAMILLO
CAVOUR--COLLINE NEAR TURIN--GENOA--TERESA DOVIA--FLORENCE--MISS
F.P. COBBE--VIVISECTION--EXCURSIONS IN
THE NEIGHBOURHOOD--CHOLERA--MISERICORDIA--PIO NONO
IN TUSCANY--COMET--TUSCAN REVOLUTION--WAR IN LOMBARDY--ENTRY
OF VICTOR EMMANUEL INTO FLORENCE--LETTERS
FROM MRS. SOMERVILLE--MY FATHER'S DEATH--LETTER
FROM MISS COBBE 286

CHAPTER XVII.

SPEZIA--GENOA--BEGINS MOLECULAR AND MICROSCOPIC
SCIENCE--TURIN--SPEZIA--BRITISH FLEET--LETTERS FROM
MRS. SOMERVILLE--GARIBALDI--SEVERE ILLNESS--FLORENCE--MY
BROTHER'S DEATH--NAPLES--ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS--J.S.
MILL--CHANGE IN PUBLIC OPINION ON WOMEN'S EDUCATION--EIGHTY-NINTH
YEAR--DESCRIBES HER OWN CHARACTER--THOUGHTS
ON A FUTURE LIFE--PROGRESS IN KNOWLEDGE OF
GEOGRAPHY--VICTORIA MEDAL--MEDAL FROM ROYAL ITALIAN
GEOGRAPHICAL SOCIETY--LETTER FROM MENABREA--ROME,
CAPITAL OF ITALY--AURORA BOREALIS 329

CHAPTER XVIII.

ECLIPSE--VISITS OF SCIENTIFIC MEN--LIFE AT NAPLES--DARWIN'S
BOOKS--REMARKS ON CIVILIZATION--FINE AURORA BOREALIS--DEATH
OF HERSCHEL--SUMMER AT SORRENTO--BILL FOR
PROTECTION OF ANIMALS--NINETY-SECOND YEAR--LETTER
FROM PROFESSOR SEDGWICK--GRAND ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS--LAST
SUMMER AT SORRENTO, PLANTS FOUND THERE--CONCLUSION
354

PERSONAL RECOLLECTIONS

OF

MARY SOMERVILLE.

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CHAPTER I.

INTRODU