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burial, which took place at St. Andrew's, Holborn, on 18th February, 

 1611-12. 



The series of coloured drawings of British Fungi, amounting to the 

 large number of 1300, made with great artistic skill and scientific 

 accuracy by Mr. Worthington G. Smith, has been acquired by the 

 Botanical Department of the British Museum. 



Mr. R. A. Pryor, of Hatfield, has circulated amongst English 

 botanists some " Ivotes on a proposed re-issue of the Flora of Hertford- 

 shire," a work upon which he has been for some time engaged. Lists are 

 given of those plants — segregates, possible or probable extinctions, and 

 more or less doubtful— about which information is required. 



A conference consisting of delegates from the Agricultural, Bo- 

 tanic, Royal Dublin, Horticultural, and Meteorological Societies, has, 

 at the request of the last-mentioned, drawn up some " Instructions " 

 for the observation of the appearance of certain plants, insects, and 

 birds. In the preparation of these instructions the conference was 

 greatly assisted by the Rev. T. A. Preston, of Marlborough College, 

 who has worked for many years laboriously at such records. A list of 

 seventy-one of the most widely-distributed and commonest plants is 

 given, and those who cannot undertake to observe so many are re- 

 quested to pay attention to fourteen of them printed in capitals. This 

 is followed by some very necessary instructions, and a table of the 

 average dates for ten years, as observed at Marlborough, of the appear- 

 ance of the various species. So far as appears, it is only the obser- 

 vation of the date of first flowering that is required ; the advent of 

 other phases of vegetable life is no doubt less capable of definite deter- 

 mination, but would seem to be desirable. Blank forms for the record 

 of " Phonological Phenomena," as the appearances of animals and 

 plants are awkwardly styled, can be obtained of the secretary of the 

 Meteorological Society, 30, Great George Street, S.W., to whom also 

 the said forms are to be returned at the end of each month. 



The Council of the Royal Society of Edinburgh has awarded the 

 Neill Prize for the triennial period, 1871-74, to Mr. Charles William 

 Peach, for his contributions to Scottish geology and zoology, and for 

 his recent contributions to fossil botany. 



Dr. H. R. Goeppert, the venerable Professor of Botany at Breslau, 

 celebrated the 50th anniversary of his graduation on January lith. 

 An enumeration of his contributions to recent and fossil botany com- 

 prehends nearly 200 articles. 



The naturalists appointed to the Arctic Expedition are Mr. H. C. 

 Hart, B.A.., and Capt. H. W. Feilden. The former will, we under- 

 stand, be attached to the Discovery, Capt. Stevenson, the latter to the 

 Alert, Capt. Nares. Of the four medical officers selected also, one 

 at least has a fair knowledge of natural science. 



Mr. J. F. Duthie, B.A., has accepted the Professorship of Natural 

 History at the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. 



For the future the Botanical and Zoological papers of the " Trans- 

 actions " of the Linnean Society will be published in separate series, 

 as has long been the case with those printed in the quarto '* JournaF* 

 of the Society. 



