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appears in the last number of the ' Journal ' of the same Society, and will 

 be noticed in our pages. The anniversary meeting was held on May 24th, 

 when Mr. Bentham, the President, delivered an address on matters connected 

 with the permanence of species and palseontology. 



Dr. Hooker's 'Students' Flora of the British Islands' has just appeared 

 (Macmillan, 10s. 6d.), and forms a small octavo volume of 504 pages. 



The following botanists have been elected Foreign Members of the Linnean 

 Society : — Dr. Charles Naudin, of CoUioure, Pyrenees, and Signor Eoberto di 

 Viviani, Professor of Botany at Padua. 



We are glad to hear that the Council of the Royal Society liave recommended 

 Dr. Maxwell T. Masters for election as a Fellow of the Society. 



Dr. Hooker, of Kew, and Dr. Thompson, have been elected Examiners in 

 Botany at the University of London. 



We understand that a well-known London publisher is about to issue an 

 English translation of Professor Baillon's ' Monographies.' 



The first sheet of Messrs. W. and A. K. Johnston's ' Illustrations of Botany ' 

 is published. 



Rev. E. O'Meara is engaged on a Catalogue of Irish Diatomacese, in the 

 form of a report to the Royal Irish Academy. 



The remainder of the herbarium of the late Nathaniel B. Ward, Esq., F.R.S., 

 etc., — consisting of plants from (1) India, by Wallich, GrifEth, Royle, Campbell, 

 Hayne, etc. ; (2) Tranquebar, an old series collected by the Moravian Brethren 

 in the last century ; (3) Cape of Good Hope, by Roxburgh, Rutherford, 

 Tredgold, etc. ; (4) Valpai-aiso, M. Antoin ; (5) British Guiana, M. Martin ; 

 (6) Australia and New Zealand, by Cunningham, Hooker, Mylne, Maitland, 

 etc. ; (7) North America, by M'Nab, Watson, Douglas, SuUivant, Gardner, 

 etc. ; (8) South America, by Gardner, Miers, Cuming ; (9) Peru ; (10) Euro- 

 pean, by Woods, W. Christy, Prior, etc. ; besides a quantity of Ferns and a few 

 other Cryptogams, — is for disposal. Any of the sets may be had at the rate of 5*. 

 per hundred, of Dr. Miller, Bethnall House, Cambridge Road, E., one of Mr. 

 Ward's executors. 



We ai'e glad to see that ' The Moss Flora of Sussex ' is published. 



Dr. John Torrey and Prof Asa Gray have just published in the Proceed- 

 ings of the American Academy, a " Revision of the JErigonecB." They recog- 

 nize seven genera, Bentham's Mucronea being suppressed, and Lastarricea 

 (formerly not recognized as a member of this group, from its having no in- 

 volucre) admitted ; and they enumerate 115 species, all natives of America. 



Notices to CoERESroNDENXS. — A number of communications are delayed 

 by want of space, although it will be observed tliat we give an extra half-sheet 

 (eight pages). Communications have been received' from Prof. A. Gray, T. 

 R. A. Briggs, Dr. Stirton, Dr. D. Moore, Dr. Braithwaite, Prof. Thiselton- 

 Dyer, F. Stratton, J. Britten, A. W. Bennett, etc. 



COEEIGENDA. — From an accident, the proof of Mr. Tucker's " Short Note " 

 on Isle of Wight plants (pp. 158-160) was not corrected. Beside some errors 

 in punctuation, the following misprints occur in it : — P. 159, 1. 8, for " Oalceo- 

 gonuni" read CratcBogonum ; 1. 25, for " Plumostii" read Plimostii ; 1. 27, for 

 " accurante Gal." read accurante Gul. ; 1. 36, for " qiicere, a forma, Guil., 

 broad" read quem a forma Guil. Broad. On p. 164, 1. 36, for '■'■ Scyzonema 

 and Scyzosiphon" read Spermosira and Schizosiphon. On p. 167, 1. 37, dele " New 

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