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tiori from the Verreaux and Vedray collections in Paris. It does not appear 

 that the formation of a herbarium is part of the scheme. 



Dr. Wirtgen, of Coblentz, is about to publish a third edition of his ' Herba- 

 rium Ruborum Rhenanorum,' which is to consist of 100 specimens, and is 

 offered at the low price of 16s. 



We learn that a new edition of Dr. Prior's work on the ' Popular Names of 

 British Plants' is in active preparation. 



The Report of the Rugby School Natural History Society for 1869 contains 

 tlie following additions to the flora of the district : — Ranunculus trichophyllus , 

 Sarharea intermedia, Lactiica muralis, Linaria Pelisseriana (as a casual), and 

 Ophioglossum vulgatum. New localities are given for JErodium cicutarium, 

 Valerianella dentata, and Campanula hyhrida. 



The volume of 'Transactions of the Woolhope Naturalists' Field Club' for 

 1869, just issued, is all that such a periodical should be. In botany, besides 

 Mr. Worthington Smith's " Clavis Agaricinorura," which has appeared in our 

 pages, there are papers by Dr. Bull, Mr. Lees, and the Rev. A. Gi-ay, and many 

 short notices of localities. The volume is illustrated with jahotographs of two 

 celebrated Oaks, and with coloured drawings of Saponaria Vaccaria, found in 

 a field of vetches by 0. Q-. Martin, Esq., near Widemarsh Common, Hereford, 

 and of several Fungi. 



Mr. J. Collins, Curator of the Pharmaceutical Society's Museum, has been 

 elected a Corresponding Member of the " Societe de Pharmacie " of Paris. 



Died, on tlie 2nd of November, 1869, Armand Thielens, a zealous Belgian 

 botanist, and contributor to the Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de Belgique. 



The ' Botanische Zeitung ' publishes an obituai-y of J. D. W. Bayrhofier, a 

 well-known Cryptogamic botanist, who was born at Frankfort-on-the-Maine, 

 and died at Lorch, December 17th, 1868. He commenced life as a printer ; 

 vrent to Grreece, where he set up a printing press on the island of Chios, but 

 in consequence of the Turko-Grecian war returned to Grermany, where he 

 published several papers on Mosses, Lichens, and other Cryptogams. 



Died, on the 28th of April, Prince Anatol Demidoff, well known as a liberal 

 patron of science, and by his travels in Southern Russia, the, botanical results 

 of which were published by Leveille and A. Brongniart. A catalogue of his 

 gardens was published by Planchon, under the name of ' Ho>tus Donatensis.' 



The ' Times' records the death, at the age of 75, of Baron Charles von Hiigel, 

 Austrian Plenipotentiary at the court of Belgium, and well known as an Aus- 

 tralian explorer and founder of the Horticultural Society at Vienna. The sad 

 event took place on the 2nd of June, at Brussels. Baron von Hiigel was 

 author of ' Botanisches Archiv der Garteubaugesellsch'aft des Oesterreichischen 

 Kaiserstaates,' Wien, 1837 ; and of ' Orchideensammlung im Friilijahr 1845,' 

 Wien, 1845, which enumerates 1080 species ; and some of the plants collected 

 by him in Australia in 1833 were enumerated and the new species described 

 by Bentham, Fenzl, Schott, and Endlicher, in the unfinished ' Enumeratio 

 Plantarum quas in Nov. Holl. collegit C. L. B. de Hiigel,' Vienna, 1837. 



COMMTTNICATIONS havc been received from T. R. A. Briggs, A. Britten, Hon. 

 J. L. Warren, H. C. Watson, J. Sadler, H. F. Hance, G. C. Churchill, J. 

 Boswell-Syrae, Rev. J. M. Crombie, V^'. G. Smitli, etc. 



