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his ** Hepaticae Scandinavicce exsiccatoe," containing 25 species com- 

 pletely illustrated by copious and well-selected specimens and printed 

 labels. An appendix of five species from the West of Ireland is also 

 included in the volume. 



A fasciculus of 50 species of Elvellaceiy collected, named, and 

 mounted by Mr. William Phillips, is announced as now ready; price 12s. 

 Amongst them will be found some species new to our Flora, and many 

 others of rare occurrence. Applications should be made to W. Phil- 

 lips, Canonbury, Kingsland, Shrewsbury. 



Mr. H. J. Elwes, 6, Tenterden Street, Hanover Square, London, 

 has issued the prospectus of a monograph of the genus Liliuwt^ to be 

 published in parts at one guinea each, each part to contain eight folio 

 plates by Fitch, in the style of those of Bateman's ''Monograph of 

 Odontoglossum" accompanied by a complete account of the characters 

 of the species and its varieties, and of its native countries, culture, 

 and history. The work will be commenced at once, and is expected 

 to run to six parts, each of which will contain a large engraving, re- 

 produced from a photograph, of the scenery of the countries where 

 Lilies are found most abundantly. Messrs. Wilson, Leichtlin, and 

 Baker have engaged to do their best to help the book in their several 

 departments, so that we may expect a work for which art, science, 

 and horticulture have done their utmost. Subscribers' names to be 

 sent in to the above address. 



The Corporation of the City of Geneva, thanks to the bequest of 

 the Duke of Brunswick, are now able to afford two curators for the 

 valuable Delessert Herbarium, at present in process of arrangement. 

 M. Bemett, who has been hitherto at work upon it, will continue in his 

 post, but Dr. J. Miiller, the able conservator of the Candollean Her- 

 barium, has been nominated also chief keeper of the Herb. Delessert. 



Prof. Eadlkofer, of Munich, has received the quinquennial prize 

 founded by A. P. DeCandolle, for his monograph of Sapindus. This 

 will be published in the Memoirs of the Bavarian Academy of 

 Sciences. 



Rudolf Eriedrich Hohenacker died at Kirchheim, Wurtemburg, 

 on November 14, 1874. He was born at Zurich in 1798. Employed 

 in early life as a missionary in Astrakan, he spent the years 1830 — 41 

 in the Caucasian provinces, and in 1833 published an Enumeration of 

 the plants of the district of Elisabethpol, and in 1838 of the territory 

 of Talysch, in the Bulletin of the Moscow Academy. He was one of 

 the founders of the " Unio Itineraria" of Esslingen ; Steudel, Hoch- 

 stetter and others being also membersr After this society broke up 

 he still continued to be a centre for the distribution of the collections 

 of botanical travellers. He has also issued a herbarium of officinal 

 plants in five fascicles. His name is commemorated in the curious 

 TJmbelliferous genus, KohenacTieria^ containing several Mediterranean 

 and Oriental species. 



It is with great regret that we chronicle the death of J. 

 Traheme Moggridge. The state of his health had for many years 

 compelled him to winter at Mentone, where he died on November 24th, 

 1874, at the age of thirty-two. He possessed the strong bias towards 

 natural history pursuits which had characterised his father, and was 

 so conspicuous in L. W. Dillwyn, his grandfather, and in spite of his 



