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auditoria in the world, and during the greater part of the lecture 

 those not immediately in front of the lecturer had some difficulty in 

 hearing. We notice elsewhere the matter of the lecture, which has 

 since been printed and published by Macmillan & Co. 



The Rev. A. C. Waghorne, late of New Harbor, Newfoundland, 

 has a collection of Newfoundland and Labrador plants for disposal. 

 After 17 years' labour as a missionary, he is obliged by ill health to 

 retire, for a time, from regular clerical work, and, being entirely 

 without means of subsistence, hopes to derive some income by the 

 sale of his plants. He is not himself a botanist, but his plants have 

 been named by Messrs. Macoun, Warnstorf, Vasey, Bailey, Farlow, 

 Hervey, Bebb, Underwood, and Eckfeldt. He proposes to issue 

 complete lists of all he has collected in Newfoundland and on the 

 Labrador, and to distinguish those of which he has material to spare. 

 He hopes to have his list of mosses and lichens, at least, ready this 

 month ; the rest will probably not be prepared till the winter. A list 

 of Sphagnaceae has already been issued. As Mr. Waghorne will 

 spend the summer in Labrador, applications for specimens should be 

 made to the Rev. J. H. Bull, Whitbourne, Newfoundland. 



