86 . MEMORANDA. 
susceptors seek only to be secured from personal loss—possess a more com- 
plete manual for the floras of Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, and Western 
Asia, than for that of the Iberian peninsula; whilst Italy, so long distracted 
and misgoverned, besides innumerable local Florulas, and a works of Moris 
and Gussone for Sardinia and Sicily, has given us a complete Flora of the 
country in ten volumes, and another in course of eea which will pro- 
bably attain equal lengt 
My object in addressing to you this communication, which I earnestly hope 
may meet the eyes of Prof. Wilkomm, i is to point out that, under the altered 
placed in the principal libraries, could scarcely fail to meet with a ready and 
favourable response. 
I trust my suggestion will not be neglected, and that its success may prevent 
a calamity which would demonstrate too clearly that, while many talk of the 
progress of our science, there can be comparatively few who take a real interest 
in 
H. F. Hance. 
Whampoa, China, December 11, 1868. 
MEMORANDA. 
The Rev. J. E. Leefe requests us to announce that he is now prepared to 
send off copies of the first fasciculus of the ‘Salictum Exsiccatum,’ ne) paid, 
on the receipt of 8s., hee in stamps or by Post Office order. Add 
Cupwell Vicarage, Morpe 
The Wollaston Fund is been awarded by the Council of the Geological 
Society to Mr. W. Carruthers, of the British Museum, in consideration of his 
researches in fossil botany. 
A Memor of the late E Harvey, of Dublin, has just been published 
by pma Bell and Dal 
C. Wood has licor a p meis in a vta apne at Benton, 
Sean! 8 ica California. The 160 degrees. 
The plant he names Nostoc caladariam, It ue rim grows freely in water of 
this very great temperature, but ae on itself a simpler structure, which he 
has designated Pirson therm 
HE PINES OF CALIFORNIA. egy a recent meeting of the California Aca- 
race of Sciences, Dr. Bolander said there were but fifteen species indigenous 
which he called Picea magnifica, which was but P. amabilis. He thought the 
European botanists usura species in the interest of seedsmen, as there was 
such a demand in Europe for seeds of new thin 
HUJA AND LriBockpRUs.— We have been reque uested, by Mr. Robert Bro 
to correct an error which has crept into his * Monograph of the pr 
