olumbus") were
issued in 1847, and the Society still flourishes. Between
1847 and 1885 the Society has presented to its members an
important series of books of travel, at the rate of about
two volumes a year for an annual subscription of one guinea.

_The Palaeontographical Society_ was founded in 1847 for the
purpose of figuring and describing a stratigraphical series
of British Fossils. The annual volumes consist of portions
of works by the most eminent palaeontologists, and these
works are completed as soon as circumstances allow, but
several of them are still incomplete.

_The Arundel Society_ is so important an institution that it
cannot be passed over in silence, although, as the
publications chiefly consist of engravings,
chromolithographs, etc., it scarcely comes within the scope
of this chapter. The Society takes its name from Thomas
Howard Earl of Arundel, in the reigns of James I. and
Charles I., who has been styled the "Father of _vertu_ in
England." It was founded in 1849, and its purpose is to
diffuse more widely, by means of suitable publications, a
knowledge both of the history and true principles of
Painting, Sculpture, and the higher forms of ornamental
design, to call attention to such masterpieces of the arts
as are unduly neglected, and to secure some transcript or
memorial of those which are perishing from ill-treatment or
decay. The publications of the Society have been very
successful, and many of them cannot now be obtained.

Most of the societies above described have appealed to a
large public, and endeavoured to obtain a large amount of
public support; but in 1853 was formed an exclusive society,
with somewhat the same objects as the Roxburghe Club. _The
Philobiblon Society_ was instituted chiefly through the
endeavours of Mr. R. Monckton Milnes (the late Lord
Houghton) and the late Mons. Sylvain Van de Weyer. The
number of members was at first fixed at thirty-five, but was
raised in 1857 to forty, including the patron and honorary
secretaries. The publications consist chiefly of a series of
Bibliographical and Historical Miscellanies, contributed by
the members, which fill several volumes. Besides these there
are "The Expedition to the Isle of Rhe by Lord Herbert of
Cherbury," edited and pr