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Dr. Lehmann, of Hamburgh, writes on this subject as follows :— 
; “When Nees tendered his resignation of the Presidentship of the 
| Acad. Nat. Curiosor., he summoned his adjuncts to meet at Schwein- 
| furt (the birth-place of the Academy), in order to exercise the right 
inherent in their appointment, to nominate a successor; and likewise 
to arrange for the due celebration in 1852 of the two-hundredth anni- 
versary of the Academy. In order to * frustrate the many intrigues that 
are at work, it had been resolved beforehand, at a meeting at Er- 
langen, that Nees should be requested to continue President, and 
at the same time to form, if possible, a union between the Aca- 
demy and the Annual Association of Naturalists; further, that the 
adjuncts hgd nothing whatever to do with the affair between the 
Prussian Professor and the Prussian Minister of Public Instruction and 
Church Affairs. This resolution was unanimous at Erlangen, and at 
Schweinfurt it was carried without difficulty. Nees consented to the 
proposed arrangement; and Lehmann and Jäger, high in medical 
practice at Stuttgart, were desired to take the needful steps on the 
occasion, including a proposition to secure to the Academy greater 
independence from all Government influence or control. The two 
- hundred years’ Jubilee, which happens on the 8th of January next, 
. is to be celebrated at Wiesbaden on the 18th of September, at the 
meeting there of the Association of Naturalists. Our friend is writing 
a Programme to that effect. At Berlin, where he was deputed to gain 
.. the concurrence of Humboldt, he was most successful: the latter pro- 
| mised his best exertions.” 
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HERBARIUM of the late Grorce GARDNER, EsQ., Director of the 
Royal Botanic Garden, Ceylon. 
. Allusion has been already made to the Herbarium of the late 
Mr. Gardner, of Ceylon. It was hoped a purchaser would have come 
forward willing to take the collection entire, arranged as it is, and 
. fastened on stout white demy folio paper, in covers of the same, according 
to the numbers in Endlicher’s ‘ Genera.’ Such, however, has not been 
the case, and, with the consent of the family, the collection has been 
broken up according to countries (the Cryptogamia, however, separated 
from them) : and the collections now to be disposed of are those of — 
CEYLON . : 
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