This ebook was transcribed by Les Bowler. COLLECTANEA * * * * * _DE DIVERSIS REBUS_ * * * * * ADDRESSES AND PAPERS BY SIR PETER EADE, M.D., LOND. _Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians_; _Hon. Fellow of King’s_ _College_, _London_; _Consulting Physician to the Norfolk and Norwich_ _Hospital_, _to the Jenny Lind Infirmary for Sick Children_, _and_ _to the Norwich Dispensary_; _Honorary Freeman of_ _the City of Norwich_ * * * * * LONDON JARROLD AND SONS, 10 AND 11, WARWICK LANE, E.C. _All Rights Reserved_ 1908 CONTENTS. CHAPTER PAGE I. ON RECREATION GROUNDS FOR NORWICH 9 II. ON TEMPERANCE AND AIDS TO TEMPERANCE 15 III. ON TORTOISES—_With Illustration_, 1908 29 IV. A FURTHER NOTE UPON TORTOISES 38 V. MY CHRISTMAS GARDEN PARTY 44 VI. MY CITY GARDEN IN “A CITY OF GARDENS” 53 VII. PRESIDENTIAL ADDRESS TO THE NORFOLK AND 72 NORWICH NATURALISTS’ SOCIETY VIII. ON ST. GILES’S CHURCH AND PARISH, NORWICH 90 IX. THE TOWER OF ST. GILES’S CHURCH—_With 99 Illustration_ X. ON SIR THOMAS BROWNE—_With Portrait_ 121 PREFACE. The following Addresses and Papers on various subjects have been selected from many others contributed by the Author, as thought to be possibly of sufficient interest in their respective spheres to justify their reproduction in a collected form. They are very diverse in their character, and embrace a great variety of topics. It has been well said that all men are delighted to look back; and the Author, whilst thus recalling past work, can only express the hope that some of these Papers may have contributed, however infinitesimally, each in their own way and at their respective times, to help forward the appreciation of the then present, or the progress of the world’s welfare or knowledge in the future. _Norwich_, 1908. I. PROPOSED PROVISION OF RECREATION GROUNDS FOR NORWICH. Condensed Report of Speech in Norwich Town Council, 1880, reprinted from the _Norwich Mercury_ of October 23rd, 1880:— Dr. Eade, pursuant to notice, rose to call attention to the question of recreation or playgrounds for the children of Norwich.