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separated any distance, and the former may also be used with other 

 pieces of apparatus where a continuous record is desired. 



The Discoverer of Dion^ea. 



In the Journal of Botany for November the editor gives some 

 account of William Young, an American adventurer of the last 

 century, who first brought to England, in 1768, living specimens of 

 Diono'a, the carnivorous plant commonly known as Venus' fly-trap. 



Young seems to have been a pushing, uneducated man, who, by 

 dint of impudent self-assertion, got himself appointed Botanist to 

 their Majesties, in 1764, much to the disgust and surprise of honest 

 folk, like John Bartram and others, who knew him at home in Phila- 

 delphia. Apparently his only other claim to distinction rests in a 

 MS. volume containing about three hundred rude figures of plants, 

 and a corresponding volume of specimens, both now in the Botanical 

 Department of the British Museum. 



Change of Address, 

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 that appears under the above heading on the last page of the 

 present number. It is hoped that the new arrangement, which will 

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 our own business and our dealings with the public by concentrating 

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 Whether we can succeed or not must of course depend not on 

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 Since the Reviev/ will still be conducted by the same editorial staft 

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 venture to hope that they will now aid us all the more both in purse 

 and person. If only their sympathy be assured, we shall step from 

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