310 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
We have to record the appearance of two new periodicals devoted to popular 
science, ‘The Academy,’ published by Murray, and ‘ Nature, published by 
Maemillan 
The Qoid has been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of 
Joseph Dalton Hooker, Esq., M.D., Director of the Royal Botanical Gardens at 
Kew, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or 
Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath. 
The following inscription to the memory of the late Professor Daubeny has 
been placed in the chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford :— 
AD ' GLORIAM `° DEI 
ET'IN IAM 
CAROLI ' ÆGIDII * BRIDLE ' DAVBENY'M' D 
ANNOS ` HVIVSCE * COLL * SOCII 
LITERARVM * HVMANIORVM ' EXIMIE ' DOCTVS 
CHE LE 
s 
TAM * ACADEMIA ' QVAM * COLLEGIO ' DEVINCTVS 
DEVM * TOTA ' MENTE * COLVIT 
IN ' CHRISTO * OBDORMIVIT 
DIE' MENSIS ` DECEMBRIS * XIII 
* MDCCCLXVII 
a ATIS * LX XIII 
AVE’ ANIMA * SIMPLEX ` PIA ' DESIDERATISSIMA. 
Mr. J. Collins, the zealous Curator of the Museum of the Pharmaceutical 
just been published. It carries on the enumeration to the end of Serophula- 
rinec. 
