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nus Victoria is more closely allied to Nyrnphaea than to Eu- 

 ryale, and will, I hope, set at rest all future ingenious specu- 

 lations, upon the first of these genera being untenable.* 



Botanical Society of London. — By a report which we have 

 received of this Society, established Nov. 1836, it appears 

 that the number of members is sixty-five. The number of 

 British plants received, as donations, amounts to 4819 speci- 

 mens, including Ferns; 767 species, including 1313 speci- 

 mens, have been arranged in the herbarium, according to the 

 system of DeCandolle. The remaining 3506 duplicates, in- 

 cluding 515 species, will be distributed to those persons who 

 have favored the curator with lists of desiderata. 



The council beg to inform the members, that in order 

 to afford every facility for examining the herbarium and li- 

 brary, the rooms of the Society will be open one hour and a 

 half previous to the ordinary meetings of the Society, when 

 the curator and secretary will attend, to render any assistance 

 that may be required, and to circulate the books. 



The meetings of the Society are held on the first and third 

 Friday in each month, from November to June ; and the first 

 Friday of every other month ; at their rooms, No. 75, New- 

 man St. Oxford St. at 8 o'clock, p. m. precisely : where all 

 communications to the secretary are requested to be addressed. 



Mr. Gould, the eminent Ornithologist, has determined on 

 leaving England, in the spring, for Australia. He purposes 

 spending two years there ; his object being to render the splen- 

 did work which he has commenced, on the birds of that portion 

 of the globe, a contribution to science which shall furnish na- 

 turalists, not merely with faithful delineations of the nume- 

 rous and interesting forms inhabiting that country, but also 

 contain a history of the habits and general economy of the 

 subjects represented. That no interruption to the progress 

 of the work may occur, all the materials necessary for conti- 

 nuing its publication will be carried out with him. The out- 

 lines of the subjects will be made by his own hand, and the 

 lithography, as in all his previous Illustrations, will be exe- 

 cuted by Mrs. Gould, who will accompany him in his travels. 



A large and beautiful new species of antelope has recently 

 reached this country from Africa. It was discovered by Cap- 

 tain W. C. Harris, of the Bombay Engineers, whilst on an 

 exploring expedition, between the 24th and 26th parallels of 

 south latitude, and within 28° and 30 Q east longitude, on the 

 northern side of the Cashan range of mountains, about a de- 

 gree and a half south of the tropic of Capricorn. It belongs 



* From a Report in the Athenaeum. 



