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SPRINGTIME
AND OTHER ESSAYS
BY SIR FRANCIS DARWIN
AUTHOR OF “RUSTIC SOUNDS”
AND OTHER ESSAYS
WITH ILLUSTRATIONS
LONDON
JOHN MURRAY, ALBEMARLE STREET, W.
1920
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] |