It is with the deepest regret that we liave to announce the 

 death of Sir Joseph Banks, who departed this life on Monday 

 the 19th of June, between eight and nine in the morning, at his 

 seat of Spring Grove, Middlesex, in the 77th year of his age. 

 His loss will be severely felt in the scientific world, both at 

 home and abroad ; he had presided over the Royal Society for the 

 long period of forty-two years, during which his zeal for tin- 

 welfare of that body was unremitting, as it was successful. 



TO CORRESPONDENTS. 



Communications from the Earl of Mountnorris, from Mr. 

 Jordan, Mr. Bowdich, and several other Correspondents, 

 are inevitably postponed until the publication of next number 

 of this Journal. 



Our Correspondents are earnestly requested to forward their 

 papers at least one month previous to the publication of the num- 

 ber of this Journal in which it is desired they should be 

 published. 





