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N. Indian Ferns in Wallich's Herbarium ; some of the localities 

 given by Wallich, and doubtfully received by botanists, are doubt- 

 less correct, though it is shown that in many cases much weight 

 cannot be attached to the herbarium-numbers on the sheets. 



June 19. — Prof. Allman, F.R.S., President, in the chair. — 

 Charles Holme, Esq., of Bradford, was elected a Fellow. — The 

 following papers were read : — ' Remarks on Carpemun cernmim 

 as indigenous to Australia,' by F. M. Bailey, of Brisbane. The 

 author gave reasons for supporting Mr. L. A. Bernays's views 

 (Jour. Linn. Soc, vol. xvii., p. 267), of this j)lant not being intro- 

 duced, but undoubtedly native to Australia. Mr. Ball noted the 

 peculiar local distribution of the plant in Europe and N. Africa, 

 and seemed inclined to think that ('arpesinm in Australia might 

 be a remnant of an ancient wider distribution of the genus. — ' An 

 Enumeration of the Lichens in the Herbarium of Piobert Brown, 

 in the British Museum,' by the Piev. J. M. Crombie. These were 

 collected between 1802-5, during the notable voyage of Capt. 

 Flinders to New Holland and Tasmania. No complete catalogue 

 of these lichens was published by Brown, though many bear his 

 MS. names, and only the more common species were indicated in 

 the ' Appendix ' to the above voyage. The author now remarks that 

 the paucity of " saxicole" species, both in this as in more recent 

 collections of exotic lichens, is a matter to be regretted, and should 

 engage the attention of those now collecting lichens abroad. — 

 * A Contribution to the Flora of Northern China,' by J. G. Baker 

 and S. Le Marchant Moore. Some 600 specimens, now deposited 

 in the Kew Herbarium, and collected by Mr. John Ross in the 

 province of Selim King, 40° to 42" N. lat. of the Celestial Empire, 

 furnish the basis of this paper. Though many species among 

 these are already known, yet the discovery of such forms as 

 Exochorda ser rat [folia — an addition to a genus that has for years 

 remained monotypic — Saxifraf/a Bossii, BrachyUtis paridiformis, and 

 Betula e.valtata, along with several altogether new species, render 

 the collection valuable. 



53otanual Ntiws. 



Count Solms-Laubaoh has been appointed to succeed the late 

 Prof. Grisebach at Gottingen. 



Dr. 0. Drude is appointed Professor of Botany and Director 

 of the Garden at Dresden ; and Dr. E. Zacharias Privat-Docent 

 in Strassburg. 



We regret to have to record the death, on August 17th, of Dr. 

 Maktius M. Bull, of Jersey, an accomi^lished scholar and excellent 

 botanist, who has contributed several papers to this Journal. 



The fifth Annual Conference of the Cryptogamic Society of 

 Scotland will be held at Forres on September 17tli-19th. Those 

 who wish to be present are requested to communicate with the 

 Secretary, Dr. Buchanan White, Perth. 



