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fore, ee requested to give separate returns on such points, and 
it may perhaps not be too much to request Fellows, who during the 
ensuing summer may be wandering over the Continent, to pay attention 
to them as they pass along, and to communicate the results to the Assistant 
Secretary on their return. | 
It will be seen that the Committee have not overlooked the important 
subject suggested in the “ Gardeners’ Chronicle,” viz., what trees are best 
adapted for growing in towns. 
Another point on which a separate direction у perhaps be useful is 
that, whenever it is possible, a comparative statement should be given 
of the former as well as the present size and tats of trees whose condi- 
tion and dimensions at previous dates are known. 
Publication of the Proceedings.— The Council have directed that the 
publication of the “ Proceedings " shall be suspended during that part of 
the year when most of the Fellows are abroad or out of town, viz., 
August, September, October, and November. "That publication will thus 
appear only in eight months in the year, the Society in this respect assimi- 
lating itself to those societies who have an active session and a vacation, 
and only publish the results of the work done during their session. 
Collector in South Brazil; Letters from Mr. Weir—A continuation 
of Mr. Weir's Journal is given in this number of the “ Proceedings.” It will 
be seen from the plants found in his last expedition into the interior, 
that he had passed into a district with a different flora from that of the 
country which he had previously been exploring. Тһе species, ры 
many of them are new, are not, however, so fine or attractive as to encou- 
rage a more continued exploration of the district, and the Council чаре 
fore some time since wrote to Mr. Weir, leaving it to himself to choose 
his own ground. 
To this permission the Council received the following reply :— 
Corytiba, March 5th, 1863. 
Sin, —I have received to-day yo ur ge He of the 20th of J cat ge communicating to 
е the desire of the Council to leave тп = choose my own ground for ot 
and requesting me to say whether I drape! prefer to leave South Brazil altogether. 
n reply i 
inito remes. 
By far = s seats eoa on 1 of the interior of these provinces — ү immense 
grassy The forests bordering the river are next in extent. In the province 
of St. Pauls nearly all the streams, great and DE mn еч margins wis but 
here, in Parana, it is only in in the western half of the province, where the rivers are 
large, that they are so bordered. The soil in these woods is generally humid, and the 
under vegetation rank and succulen 
In 24 _more northern Se anaes ' besides the open campos, there are large tracts 
meer ingas and campos serrados; these are thinly covered with scrub and small 
trees, and their во sail is ar id. 
"Tn Parana a QA are few catingas, but in parts there are > рени of pine forest, while 
in other parts there are leagues without es of any kind. 
e interior of Rio Grande do Sud, I am informed, is almost all campo, and the 
nhabitants in parts of it have to Өй че. dung Ае mole as fuel. 
