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felloTfs, but all future fellows should pay £10 10s. per year. The resolution was 

 then put and carried. It was decided that the same should be forwarded to the 

 council of the Society. 



The Rotal Botanic Society had, on June 16, a grand exhibition of Stove and 

 Greenhouse plants in bloom, Orchids, Pelargoniums, Cape Heaths, and new plants, 

 to which all the principal exliibitors in the neighbourhood of the metropolis con- 

 tributed. It was visited by the Sultan of Zanzibar, and suite, who appeared to 

 take a great interest in the various subjects of which the exhibition consisted. 



Mr. William Cole, who for many years past has been one of the principal 

 contributors to the pages of the Floeal World, will retire from the management 

 of the gardens and grounds of Ealing Park, a post he has so worthily occupied 

 during the past ten years, to enable him to devote the whole of his attention to the 

 production of grapes for market, and the cultivation of vines ia pots for planting 

 and fruiting. He has purchased a freehold at Feltham, and has erected thereon a 

 number of vineries, which are mostly planted, and the vines in some of them are 

 now coming into bearing. The Muscat of Alexandria and Lady Downes are planted 

 the most extensively ; the first-mentioned variety — with which, by the way, Mr. 

 Cole has achieved his deservedly high reputation as a grape-grower — largely pre- 

 dominating. The vines grown for sale in pots will consist of the varieties most in 

 demand. Of these there is already a fine stock, and, as they are grown entirely 

 ■without bottom-heat, they are well furnished with fibrous roots. Mr. Cole's place 

 of business will be known as •' The Grove Vineyard," Feltham, and is about half a 

 mile distant from the Feltham station on the Staines and Windsor branch of the 

 London and South- Western Railway, 



Thomson's Treatise on the Cultivation of the GRArE-YiNE has reached 

 its eighth edition. A hook of this kind making eight editions in twelve years does 

 not need a recommendation — it is past that sort of thing ; but the fact must be 

 recorded as of some importance in tlie history of horticultural literature. 



Assistant-Director for Kew Gardens. — A sum of £500 has been included 

 in the estimates as a salary for an assistant-director of Kew Gardens. Professor 

 Thistleton Dyer, who hns for some time past acted as secretary to Dr. Hooker, has 

 been appointed to the ofiice. 



The Executive Committee for the International Hokticulttral Exhi- 

 bition AT Cologne, which opens next month, informs us that the work is progress- 

 ing steadily in the Exhibition grounds ; the great flower and fruit hall is almost 

 completed, and the hall for machinery will be ready in a short time. The founda- 

 tions for the glass houses — eight of which have been already announced — are nearly 

 finished. The ground has been prepared, and beds cut out for the roses, flowers, 

 and plants in general in the Exhibition ground joining the Flora. Some of the 

 ground has been already planted, and the plants are flourishing. To guard against 

 the possibility of causing the spread of the Phylloxera, it has been determined to 

 exclude grapes and grape-vines from the Exhibition. 



The Anniversary Meeting of the Linnean Society has been recently held, 

 when the following officers were elected ; G. J. Allman, M.D., President ; J. G. 

 Jeffreys, LL.D., Treasurer ; and Frederick Currey, Esq., and St. George J. Mivart, 

 Esq., Secretaries. The financial condition of the Society is very healthy, and in no 

 year has more been done in the way of publication. The new President delivered 

 an address on the history and development of the Infusoria, in the course of which 

 he showed that the tendency of modern research was in favour of the descent of all 

 existing animal forms from two separate types. It was also shown that particular 

 structures are common to the whole of the members of each group, and that though 

 not necessarily present in the adult stage, they were so at some stage or another of 

 the creature's existence. 



The Collectio.v of Madeira Plants formed by the late Rev. Mr. Lowe will 

 be divided between the botanical establishment at Kew and that at the British 

 Museum. 



AzoKEAN Fruits. — From the Azores journal, "0 Cultivador," we find that, 

 between October, 1874, and March, 1875, there were despatched from the Azores to 

 various ports, chiefly English, 133,300 cases of oranges, excluding Tangierines. 

 Of these 14,446 were sent to Bristol, 56,965 to London, 4315 to Liverpool, and 

 29,333 to Hull. Of pine-apples, 1189 were imported into Bristol, 5420 into London, 

 197 into Liverpool, and 1212 into Hull. 



