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to Saturday June 17th. The course is intended for members of the 

 medical pnjfession and medical students. 



Mr. Britten, who hopes shortly to pui)lish his paper on the Flora of Berks, 

 will be glad to receive, as soon as possible, any information on the subject. 



The Easlbourne (Sussex) Natural History Society has pui)lished a 

 provisional list of the fauna and flora of the small district over which their 

 investigations extend. No less than .517 Phanerogams are enumerated, and 

 459 Cryptogams, which shows conclusively that the members of the 

 society have not been idle since its formation in 1867. 



Our readers will be glad to see that our valued correspondent, Mr. W. 

 Carruthers, Keeper of the Botanical Department of the British Museum, 

 is one of the fifteen candidates selected by the Council of the Koyal 

 Society, and recommended to the Society for election as Fellows of that 

 learned body. 



James Yates, Esq., F.R.S., of Highgate, who died on IMay 7th, was 

 well known amongst botanists and horticulturists for his fine collection of 

 living Cycadeee, in which Order he took a great interest, and to the know- 

 ledge of which, in this country, his series has considerably contributed. 

 His extensive herbarium of dried specimens of these singular plants, he, 

 a few years ago, presented to the British Museum. 



The Swedish Arctic Expedition has started, and will visit during this 

 summer the waters and shores of Baffin's Bay, etc. Mr. Thore Fries 

 accompanies it as botanist, and Messrs. J. Lindahl and Nauckhoff as 

 zoologist and geologist. The expedition, which consists of two vessels, 

 is expected to return to Sweden early in October. 



We notice, with pleasure, the appearance of the first two numbers of 

 the new ' Botaniska Notiser,' at Luiid, edited by Otto Nordstedt. Each 

 number will contain thirty-two pages, and it is intended that seven shall 

 be published annually. Special attention is paid to Scandinavian botany, 

 and a complete review is given of all botanical papers published in Sweden, 

 Norway, Denmark, and Finland. The subscription, payable at any Scan- 

 dinavian post-office or bookseller's, is 3«. 4^'. per annum. 



The first fasciculus of Nordstedt and Wahlstedt's ' Characeae Scandi- 

 naviai exsiccatag ' is, we learn from the above-mentioned journal, just pub- 

 lished. It contains forty forms, and the price is 16«. 8f/. Two more 

 fasciculi, at the same price, will complete the series. Application may be 

 made to Mr. Otto Nordstedt, Lund, Sweden. 



' Nature ' says that the vacancy in the curatorship of the Botanic 

 Garden at Utrecht, caused by the death of Professor Miquel, has been 

 filled by the appointment of Dr. N. W. P. Rauwenhoff. 



The only botanical paper in the recently-published part (vol. xxvii, 

 part 3) of the Linnean Society's Transactions, is Dr. Lauder Lindsay's 

 observations on the Lichens collected by Dr. Brown in Greenland, during 

 Mr. Whymper's expedition in 1867. 



Corrigenda. — P. 91 : Mr. A. Ernst writes to say, that it is the seeds 

 themselves of SabadiUa that are exported from Caracas, and also that the 

 plant was previously known to occur out of Mexico; p. 156, 1. 7, for 

 " Familiar " read Tamil. 



Communications have been received from Prof. A. Dickson, Prof. A. 

 H. Church, Dr. Welwitsch, Dr. J. E. Gray, Dr. Boswell Syme, Kev. A. 

 Ley, W. Carruthers, A. G. More, F. Stratton, W. W. Eeeves, R. Tucker, 

 E.F. im Thurn, A. Ernst, W. Phillips, A. W. Bennett, etc. 



