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Pr. Sremann lias ap^ain left Euglaiul for Nicaragua. 



The volume for 187U of the " Transactions of the Woolhope Naturaliste' 

 Field Club," just issued, fully sustains the high character of its prede- 

 cessors. As our readers are aware, the strong botanical point of the Club 

 is Fungology, and this volume contains a paper on the larger Fungi of 

 trees, by W. G. Smith, giving separate lists of species for different trees 

 and shrubs, an account of Scleroderma Geasier, by Mr. Broome (which has 

 already appeared in our pages), and notes on fairy rings, by Mr. Buck- 

 man. Dr. Bull also continues his " Illustrations of the Edible Fungi of 

 Hereford," and gives coloured drawings of Boletus ediilis, Ilygro'phorus 

 virgineiis. and H. prnleims and Lycoperdum glganienm ; and Mr. Eenny 

 contributes a translation of E. Fries' ' Historiola Studii mei Mycologici,' 

 illustrated by a photograph of the Swedish fungologist. The other 

 botanical papers are : — notes on the growth of Mistletoe, by the Rev. K. 

 Blight, Avith somewhat rough but apparently truthful illustrations ; on the 

 more rare plants of the Longmynd Hills, Shropshire, by Dr. G. H. Grif- 

 fiths ; on some Algae only apparent in times of drought, by Mr. Edwin 

 Lees ; and also many notices of remarkable trees (illustrated by photo- 

 graphs), besides records of localities of rare species scattered through the 

 volume. The botany is but a portion of the book, which is most credit- 

 able to the club, and acceptable to working naturalists. 



We regret to have to announce the death of Carl Theodore Hartweg, 

 Director of the Grand Ducal Gardens of Swetzingen, in Baden, and well 

 known in England as Collector of the Royal Horticultural Society, in 

 Mexico and other American republics. Born on the 18th of June, 1812, 

 at Carlsruhe, he died on the 3rd of February, 1 87 1 , at Swetzingen, leaving 

 several sons. Mr. Bentham's excellent ' Plantse Hartwegianse,' containing 

 a description of the many new- plants discovered by Hartweg, as well as 

 Dr. Lindley's publications of Hartwegian novelties in the Botanical Re- 

 gister and the ' Gardeners' Chronicle,' will keep the memory of the de- 

 parted alive wherever botany is cultivated. 



A very useful enumeration of all the Cryptogams found in Venetia has 

 been published in the Transactions of the Vienna Zoologico-botanical 

 Society, and also issued in a separate form ; the author is Count Holien- 

 biihel-Heufler. The catalogue enumerates 53 species of Filices, etc., 264 

 Musci, 34 Hepatic?e, 503 Lichenes, 245 Fungi, 19 Characese, and 633 

 Algie, with references to descriptions and a list of localities. The history 

 of the knowledge of and additions to the Cryptogamic botany of the dis- 

 trict is also carefully traced from Calceolarius in 1566 to the present time. 



Professor J. E. Zetterstedt, of Jonkoping, Sweden, a well-known bota- 

 nist, is desirous of disposing of his duplicate specimens of Scandinavian 

 plants — Phsenogams, Mosses, and Hepaticte. For particulars and terms 

 apply to Dr. Stirton, 15, Newton Street, Glasgow. 



Mr. Bentham's address to the members of the Linnean Society, read 

 at the anniversary meeting on May 24th, has been printed in ' Nature,' 

 and should be read by all botanists. In many respects it may be con- 

 sidered as the most valuable of the excellent series of addresses which 

 have been given year after year to the Society by its President. 



Communications have been received from : — J. Sadler, VV. Carruthers, 

 G. C. Churchill, W. G. Smith, F. Currey, J. Miers, Mrs. E. C. White, 

 T. R. A. Briggs, A. Irvine, J. F. Duthie.'j. C. Melvill, Dr. H. F. Hanee, 

 Rev. J. E. Leefe, A. G. More, Hon. J. L. Warren, etc. 



