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loch’s new system of the arrangement of rocks, we should 
have given it a commendation not much inferior to that we 
have bestowed on Mr. Conybeare’s; and for nearly the same 
reason—viz. its freedom from hypothesis. And we assure 
our Wernerian ek a we shall not neaelg he from them 
sis, We feel the more disposed to cultivate harmony and 
peace, as the fate of Mr. Conybeare reminds us how short 
and transient is human life. Since we perused our notice of 
his work, intelligence has reached us that he is no more. 
He is now beyond the reach of censure or applause, and is 
gone, we trust, toa world where doubt and hypothesis will 
never trouble him again. Whatever any may think in regard 
to his peculiar views upon the classification of rocks, none 
will now deny him the title of an able geologist. 
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Aur. XXV.—Botanical Fétes in France. By Prof. J. 
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ISCOM. 
Tue Linnzan Society and its ten French and foreign 
sections, celebrated, on the 27th of June, the Linnean féte, 
founded in 1818, at Arlac, and fixed on the first Friday after the 
feast of Saint-John, i in honour of Jean Bauchin, the restorer 
of Botany in France 
st. At Borpr AUX, the excursion was made to Cypressac, 
(so called froin the number of cypress-trees which grow there,) 
a place rich in plants, and in attractions relative to the flora 
of the Gironde. The session was held near Cénon Labas- 
tide, in a wood of tufted oaks, and upon benches of green 
turf. Many ladies, drawn by the novelty of the spectacle, 
attended this academic peg thus held in the open air. 
It was opened according to custom, by the reading of the 
procés-verbal, of the institution of the féte, and that of the 
last rural session which took place at Pessac in 1821. M. 
on mildew, 
