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audin has been elected a member of the — Section of the French 
Hisce in the place of the late M. Moquin 
Mr; T: B. Flower, F.L.S., is publishing a Flora of Miiliahi in-the* Wilt- 
shire eese c and Natural History Magazine. 
Mr: Henry Ibbotson, of St. Maurice's House; Barker Hill, York; announces 
* The Geographical Pica of British Ferns’ (price 2s. 6d.), to serve as a 
handbook for collectors 
Signor Sanguinetti is publishing a Roman Flora. 
Drs! Hooker and Thomson are going to bring out a new ‘ Flora Indica,’ in 
nine or ten volumes. 
Mr. James Bateman announces ‘ A Monograph on Odontoglossum,' in im- 
perial folio, to be issued in parts; each part, containing five coloured plates, 
will cost £1. 1s. It is not stated how many parts will be published, 2 Mr. 
Lovell etn es publisher, promises that no more than four parts s 
issued an 
In his sear S Bit PES Dictionary of the Quichua Language, Mr. Mark- 
am gives an interesting list of the names of plants used by the Incas, with 
their corresponding scientific names. It is singular that the Quichua name 
"for Sweet Potato (Cumar), used in Ecuador, is identieal with that (Kumara) 
wé find in the pense. islands of Polynesia, including New Zealand, Fiji, 
Society Islands, Samoa, 
. tis our painful duty A ned the deaths of three mw botanists— Dr. 
Boott, of London, Mr. Woods, of Lewes, and > Gay, of P 
nci Boott, M.D., indie etc., eminen tasa Sein — distin- 
his age. Born at edi) i the United States of America, on the 26th of 
September, 1792, his early education was acquired at Harvard University ; 
strong, M.D: ; to which is added an irigu into Aia facts contidied with 
eo forms of Fever attributed to Malaria and Marsh Effuvium,’ 2 vols. 8vo. 
Pp rM this work ‘he followed up and gave — extension to Dr. Arm- 
ntially to our knowledge 
í ys the T power regulate its various types. His eis as a physician was-at 
"this time éonsiderable, but! having early inherited a competent fortune, he 
