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hope, in which we concur, that the attention of botanists may be at- 

 tracted to a field probably far from being exhausted, and a request 

 that those who may be so fortunate as to add new species or to ob- 

 serve new localities will communicate them to the author at his pub- 

 lisher's, that they may be employed in the preparation of a new edi- 

 tion. Whenever this appears, and we should expect it to be soon 

 called for, we trust that one blemish, against which, at the risk of 

 appearing hypercritical, we must protest, will be removed, namely, 

 the commencing of substantive trivial names, and those formed from 

 the proper names of persons, contrary to usual custom, with a small 

 letter. 



Mr. Babington has also recently published a Supplement to his 

 * Flora Bathoniensis,' containing numerous additions to that little 

 work. 



PROCEEDINGS OF LEARNED SOCIETIES. 



ZOOLOGICAL SOCIETY. 



Mr. Waterhouse exhibited a new species of Hare from the collec- 

 tion made for the Society by the late Mr. Douglas, and pro- 

 posed to characterize it under the name of Lepus Bachmani : he 

 thought it probable that the species had been brought from Cali- 

 fornia. It was thus described : 



Lepus Bachmani. hep. intense fuscus, piiis fuscescenti-flavo ni- 

 groque annularis ; abdomine sordide albo : pedibus supra pallidis, 

 subtus pilis densis sordide fuscis indutis : caudd brevi, albd, supra 

 nigricante, flavido adspersd : auribus externe pilis brevissimis 

 cinerescenti-fuscis, interne albidis, ad marginem externum, et 

 ad apicem flavescentibus obsitis : nucha pallide fuscescenti- 

 flavd. 

 " Fur long and soft, of a deep gray colour at the base ; each hair 



annulated near the apex with pale brown, and black at the points ; 

 on the belly the hairs are whitish externally ; on the chest and fore- 

 part of the neck the hairs are coloured as those of the sides of the body; 

 the visible portion is pale brown, each hair being dusky at the tip ; 

 chin and throat gray- white. The hairs of the head coloured like those 

 of the body ; an indistinct pale longitudinal dash on the flanks just 

 above the haunches : the anal region white. The general colour of 

 the tarsus above is white ; the hairs, however, are grayish- white at the 

 base, and then annulated with very pale buff colour (almost white), 

 and pure white at the points ; the sides of the tarsus are brown ; 

 the long hairs which cover the under part of the tarsus, as well as 

 that of the fore-feet, deep brown. The fore-feet above very pale 



