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NEW YEARLY REPORT OF THE PROGRESS OF BOTANY. 



Dr. Leopold Just, of Carlsruhe, in Baden, announces his 

 intention to publish, under the title of Botanischer Jahresbe- 

 richt, a yearly report of the progress of botany in all its de- 

 partments, and has issued a circular asking the co-operation 

 of all persons interested. He has secured the assistance of 

 numerous German botanical specialists in elaborating particu- 

 lar portions of his proposed work, and promises that within 

 a few months after the expiration of each year his annual 

 shall make its appearance. He asks all authors to send him 

 as soon as possible every thing that they have published since 

 the 1st of January, 1873, and to continue this regularly here- 

 after. He wishes especially extra copies of botanical papers 

 in transactions of societies or periodicals, in order the more 

 readily to distribute them to his collaborators. He expresses 

 his willingness, also, to return to the authors any copies of 

 their works lent him for examination, although, should noth- 

 ing to the contrary be expressed, he begs permission to re- 

 tain them. Circular, Dr. Just. 



THE EUCALYPTUS GLOBULUS. 



According to a communication by Mr. Sowerby to the 

 Royal Botanical Society, the Eucalyptus globulus, the plant 

 so much talked about recently, grows finely in the society's 

 gardens, one of them, seven years old, being fifteen feet high. 

 Experiments were under way for trying its growth in the 

 open air; but it was thought that, except in the extreme 

 south or west of England, it would not stand an ordinary 

 English winter. 



Professor Bentley stated that, although probably some of 

 the properties of the Eucalyptus were exaggerated, its effi- 

 ciency in fevers has been well established, and that it is used 

 with success in Australia and elsewhere as a remedy in such 

 cases. It is found, however, not to possess any of the cin- 

 chona alkaloids, as had been previously claimed. The vir- 

 tues of the tree in draining marshy lands and in improving 

 the sanitary condition of a country were also dwelt upon. 

 It was remarked that this plant yields the Eucalyptus oil, 

 now imported into England, as also an astringent substance, 

 which is applicable, like catechu, in medicine and in the arts. 



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