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the ten parts issued; about 6 more parts will complete the work. 
There is an analytical key of the Orders, tribes, and genera of the 
Ferns, and we have the following species described as new :—Tricho- 
manes Neilgherrense, Pleris Otaria, Campteria Anamallayensis, Ophio- 
glossum brevipes, Lastrea ferruginea, and L. intermedia. The work, 
when completed, will be a valuable one. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Sir Robert Schomburgk, British Consul General for Siam, has arrived in 
es d with considerable collections of the natural productions of that 
on the be of September, died at Heersum, near Pe ee ede rds A. 
Scheele, known by several systematic papers published in the ‘ He 
on es a Coase herbarium, consisting chiefly of German pe: "Helvetio 
plants 
The next mni of the British Association will be ses at Birmingham, | and 
that of the German Naturalists and Physicians at Han 
The first iius of Dr. Hooker's * Manual Flora of Bw Zealand, and the 
third of Mr. Syme's * English Botany,’ have just been published. 
Mr. T. Caruel, of Florence, intends to proceed to Ceylon in January next, 
or the purpose of exploring it botanically, and another Italian, Mr. Biccari, 
pues m known as a eryptogamist, has determined upon visiting Borneo to 
pee its 
Some time ago we dcn that, at the instigation of Dr. Ferd. Mueller, 
of Mibi Mr. Travers, jun., of Christchurch, New Zealand, was about to 
explore botanically the Chathan, Islands in the South Pacific. Mr. Trave 
has recently returned from this is exploration, and as, besides Myoxotidium no- 
that group, Dr. Mueller has set about wor rking up his collections into. an i 
dependent puppes. The Chatham Island species are almost all cin 
in New Zealand, but it will be important in a geographical point of view to 
record their existence à in this isolated group of islands. 
