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botany, and geology. The geologists were by far the most numerous and their 
papers the most important ; next came the zoologists, and last, and I grieve to 
add least, the botanists. Botany is decidedly i in disrepute in the North of Italy ; 
of the state of things, I need only say that the most important town in that part 
of the country, Milan, has not one single botanical class nor a botanical garden 
worthy of the name. Tn Central Italy we are better off; at Genoa there is a 
flourishing chool, founded by De Notaris, and in Tuscany a suffi- 
cient number ‘of suena spósdy pupils of M. Savi, at Pisa. = Southern Italy 
there is again a deficiency. The botanical papers read at the congresso were 
the following :—' On the Rarer Phanerogamic Plants of Lunes by M. Zu- 
maglini; *On the Development of aen Lichens of the Genus Collema, by M. 
Caruel ; * On the Sexual Organs of Verrucarie, by M. Gibelli; ‘On the Bota- 
nical Geography of the District of Bid by M. Cesati; ‘On a Species of Asco- 
myce, by M. Passerini ; * On the Botanical Geography of Upper Italy, by M. 
ofthe Marquis Doria. I see by the newspapers that the * Magenta, 
Italian Government. The work is to be accompanied by plates executed in 
chromo-lithography, here applied for the first time in a scientific work. Pro- 
fessor Todaro, at Palermo, is going to publish on the same subject. Last year 
he brought out a paper (‘Osservazioni su aleune specie di Cotone’) in which 
certain Fleshy Fruits,’ illustrated by two plates. Professor Bertoloni, now far 
advanced in years, is working on a Cryptogamie Flora of Italy, several numbers 
ed a microscope in his life, and when at the age of fourscore he pro- 
cured one to study Cryptogams, it is no wonder he could not manage it pro- 
perly. course his Flora is a complete failure, at least as regards > lower 
Diatomacee are described as hairs growing on Alge, e 
The dE which lately visited Caleutta has caused much [^ to the 
Botanie —— destroying many of the finest and oldest tree: 
volume of Professor Miquel’s Annales Lugd. Bat. i s now being 
printed, ie will commence ta the Anonacee and Artocarpee, amongst the 
latter an onda series of ] 
monograph of the Natural Order Equisetacee, 
which is to appear in the * Nova Acta.” 
e have seen the first part of A. S. Orsted’s * L? Amérique Centrale’ (Copen- 
Pm folio), which is to contain figures and descriptions of the plants collected 
by the author in Central America, and remarks on the physical geography of 
that a This first Serin contains SE pé matter and eighteen 
well-executed plates of new or little-known plants 
