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were left by the will, as the King does not undertake to distribute the 

 bulk of the collections to them or to anybody else. A point personal 

 to ourselves may be mentioned here. The solicitors to the Portuguese 

 Government wrote to us^' taking exception to certain passages in our 

 memoir of Dr. Welwitsch, and requesting a suspension of judgment 

 on the conduct of that Government towards him till after the termina- 

 tion of the legal investigation. That time has now arrived, and, so far 

 from being able to modify or retract, all that has come out has con- 

 firmed us in the opinions we then expressed. AYe are sorry to have 

 to add that the mode in which the proceedings in this suit has been 

 carried on has shown us further that the ill treatment of Dr. Welwitsch 

 has not even stopped short of an attempt — which it is not very pleasant 

 to feel was shared in by some persons in this country — to deprive him 

 of his well-earned title to scientific eminence and conscientious assi- 

 duity, and to brand him as a mere collector who fraudulently appro- 

 priated the property of his employer. 



Articles in Jouexals. — Octobee. 



Botanische Zeitung. — E. Eidam. " On the Fructification of Species 

 of Acjaricm " (tab. 8).— H. Hoffmann, " On the Vitality of Seeds."— 

 P. Magnus, " On Asconpora pulverulenta, Eiess." — M. Rees and H. 

 Will, '' Remarks on ' Flesh-eating' Plants." 



(Esterr. Bot. Zeihchr.—Z. L. Holuby, *' Batoirraphical Notes" 

 (critical Ruli).—F. Hauck, *' Marine Algte of the^Gulf of Trieste" 

 (contd.). — S. Schulzer v. Muggenburg, " Mycological Notes." 

 — W. Yatke, " Plant£e ab Hildebrandt coll." (contd., Composite, 

 8 n. sp.)— L. Neugebauer, ''Plants of Neighbourhood of Pola " 

 (contd.).— F. Antoine, '' Vegetable Products at Vienna Exhibition" 

 (contd.). 



Bulletin de la Soc. Bot. de Belgique (tom. xiv., pt. 1, Oct. 4).— F. 

 Crepin, " Primitiae Monographiee Rosarum, Fasc. 3 " (Asiatic species). 

 — H. Verheggen, '' Note on Calepina Corvini, Desv." — T. Durand, 

 "Reliquiae Dossiniana, Catalogue of Plants in Province of Liege ob- 

 served by P. E. Dossin." 



Journal of the Lhmean Soc. (n. 81, Oct. 11). — G. Bentham, "Notes 

 on the Gamopetalous Orders belonging to the Campanulaceous and Olea- 

 ceous Groups."— J. H. Gilbert, "Note on the Occurrence of Fairy 

 Rings."— I. B. Balfour, " On Botany of Rodriguez."— J. Gammie, 

 " On Arismna speciosumJ' — J. Home, " On Botany of Seychelles." — 

 D. Oliver, "Plants collected in New Guinea by A. B. Meyer."— G. 

 Dickie, " Notes on Alga) from the I. of Mangaia, S. Pacific.""- H. C. 

 Sorby, " On the Characteristic Colouring Matter of the Red Groups of 

 Algffi." 



miovo Giornale Bot. Ital. (30th Oct.).— T. de Heldreich, " De- 

 scription of a Lotus new to the Flora of Italy " (Z, Levieri). — P. A. 



* See Journ. Bot , 1873, p. 64. 



