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Pennsylvania and New York in 1807. This has reminded us that a few years 

 since, wlien tlie tomb of Piirsh, who died June 11, 1820, was discovered, a sub- 

 scription was raised for its restoration, to which several European botanists 

 contributed. We should be glad to know from some of our Canadian friends 

 whether the restoration was ever effected. 



' Nature ' believes that we may hope soon to have a Minister of Public In- 

 struction. Such a minister should take charge of the whole range of natural 

 knowledge in all matters in which the State in any way intervenes to adTance 

 such knowledge : the comprehensive term ' natural knowledge' including edu- 

 cation, science, the fine arts, and music. In order to ensure continuity of sys- 

 tem and avoid its interruption when the head of the department vacates office 

 with the change of ministers, it will, we believe, be found necessary to place 

 over each of these subdivisions a permanent, that is unparliamentary, Under 

 Secretary of State. 



We are requested by Mr. Carruthers, of the British Museum, to ask our 

 readers for information as to specimens in local museums or private collections 

 of fossil Coniferce or CycadecB. He is engaged in the investigation of these 

 Orders in relation to the stratified rocks of Britain, and would be thankful for 

 any assistance which would enable him to make his work more complete. 



Notices to Correspondents. — Those subscribers who have not yet paid 

 their subscriptions are requested to do so without delay to the publishers, 

 Messrs. Taylor and Co. 



The present Part contains the numbers for January and February. Another 

 double number will be published on the first of April, after which, this Journal 

 will appear regularly with the monthly periodicals. 



Communications have been received from J. Britten, A. W. Bennett, Eev. 

 A. Bloxam, W. Carruthers, Rev. J. Fergusson, G. E. Hunt, Dr. Holl, R. Xip- 

 pist, Professor Lawson, Dr. Masters, J. Sadler, Hon. J. L. Warren. 



Books, etc.. Received. — Kryptogamen Flora von Sachsen, etc. ; by Dr. 

 L. Rabenhorst; part 2. — Die Flechten ; first half: Leipzig, 1870. — Journal of 

 a Botanical Excursion in the north-eastern parts of the Statgs of Pennsylvania 

 and New York during the year 1807 ; by Frederick Pursh : Philadelphia, 1869. 

 — Popular Science Review : January, 1870. — Science Gossip : January and 

 February, 1870. Mosses indigenous to Forfarshire not included in the Flora 

 of Forfarshire : by the Rev. J. Fergusson. 



