160 Botanical Society. — Mr. Woodward. 



the struthious genera, with which it is thought to be allied. 



Botanical Society of London, — At the meeting of this So- 

 ciety held February 2nd, Mr. Daniel Cooper, the curator, re- 

 ported, that in accordance with the rules of the Society, he 

 had distributed eleven packets of seeds from the Cape of Good 

 Hope, presented to the Society by M. Schmidt, to those mem- 

 bers who have the opportunity of raising them, in order that 

 the plants may be laid before the Society in the course of the 

 ensuing season. He also stated that forty packets of the So- 

 ciety's duplicates had been distributed in the month of Janu- 

 ary. On the first and third Friday in each month, (the nights 

 of meeting), Mr. D. Cooper will deliver a course of lectures 

 illustrating the practical part of Botany, which members and 

 their friends are invited to attend. These lectures will com- 

 mence in March, and will be delivered one hour previously 

 to the chair being taken, (viz. 7 o'clock). The above course, 

 to which ladies will be admitted, is gratuitously offered for 

 the benefit of those members who are unacquainted with the 

 practical part of the science. 



Mr. Schloss, the Foreign Bookseller, of Great Russell St. 

 has just published a lithographic print of Professor Mtiller, 

 of Berlin ; it is decidedly one of the most faithful likenesses 

 we have ever seen. 



It is with sincere regret that we have to record the death 

 of Dr. Alexander Murray, author of the ' Northern Flora,' a 

 work noticed at some length in our last volume. He was cut 

 off by typhus fever, after only eight days' illness, just as he 

 had entered his 40th year. 



Mr. Samuel Woodward, of Norwich, an old contributor 

 to the Magazine of Natural History, and also known to natu- 

 ralists by his Synoptical Table of British fossils, and a small 

 work on the Geology of the county of Norfolk, died a few 

 weeks since, leaving a large and young family, several of whom 

 shew decided talents for the scientific pursuits to which their 

 father was so ardently attached. 



During the last two or three years Mr. Woodward had di- 

 rected his attention to the British fossil Echini, and devoted 

 some of his leisure hours to making drawings of the unfigured 

 species, with a view, we believe, of publishing a monograph 

 upon the family. From a hasty glance over his portfolio a- 

 bout a twelvemonth since, our impression is that these draw- 

 ings were extremely carefully and accurately executed, and 

 we trust that they may still prove of some service to science, 

 although the intentions of the artist have been thus prema- 

 turely frustrated. 



