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The "Academy" states that Messrs. Godman and Salvia have 

 entrusted Mr. W. B. Herasley with the compilation of a catalogue of 

 all known plants of Central America in herbaria and books. The 

 enumeration will cite collectors' names and numbers, and references to 

 descriptions and figures. 



Baron von Ettingshausen is, we believe, to undertake the deter- 

 mination and description of the Eocene plants of the South of Englaml, 

 whichhave never beensufficiently examined. J. S. Gardner, Esq., E.G. S., 

 who has a very extensive collection of these plants, will be associated 

 with him in this work, and it is intended to proceed with it without 

 delay. The Baron is specially fitted, by his acquaintance with deposits 

 of similar age abroad, to carry this work to a satisfactory issue, and to 

 supply from his extensive knowledge the means of accurately inter- 

 calating the plants in their proper position in already known fossil 

 floras. 



Dr. William Nylander, the distinguished lichenologist, has been 

 elected a foreign member of the Linnean Society of London. 



Charles des Moulins, President of the Societe Linneenne of Bor- 

 deaux, died last December. He was the author of a " Catalogue 

 raisonne des Phanerogames de la Dordogne," published in 1840, in 

 which are many valuable notes on structural characters of critical 

 species, as well as of several other botanical memoirs, including one on 

 scientific nomenclature printed in 1854. In his later life he was 

 chiefly occupied with geology and zoology. 



Edward Newman, who died at Peckham on June 12th, at the age 

 of seventy-five, was better known as a zoologist than a botanist, but 

 may be regarded as one of the " all-round" naturalists, a class which 

 is now nearly extinct. He was a native of Godalming, in Surrey, 

 and some of his earliest papers were on the natural history of that 

 place, printed in the "Magazine of Natural History." These were 

 afterwards published separately, under the title of " Letters of Rus- 

 ticus," and though their authorship was never publicly acknowledged, 

 it is believed they are correctly referred to Mr. Newman. His works 

 and papers on Entomology are very numerous, 131 articles, mostly 

 relating to that depai'tment of science, standing under his name in the 

 Royal Society's Catalogue. The "Zoologist," which magazine was 

 started in 1843, has continued till now, and is a vast storehouse of 

 facts. The botanical reputation of Newman rests chiefly on his 

 " History of British Eerns," of which the first edition appeared in 

 1840, the second in 1844, the third in 1854, and a fourth so lately as 

 1865. This was, at the time of its first appearance, very much the 

 best book on the subject, and is an original and accurate treatise. In 

 June, 1841, the " Phytologist," a monthly magazine devoted to 

 Botany, especially to all relating to British plants, was started, and 

 was conducted with great spirit and success for some years. In the 

 editorial work Mr. Newman had the assistance of George Luxford, a 

 very good writer and botanist, who generally wrote the anonymous 

 articles ; the annual prefaces, which often extend to some length, 

 and give a useful summary of the work of the past year, being always 

 the work of Newman. From his position as a printer, he was able to 

 carry on this venture with as little expenditure as possible, but it was 

 never successful commercially, and on the death of Luxford in June, 



