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but, for all that, these plants fruit well, and so also do many other tropical fruit- 
E fruit-trees are of no use here, the heat causing their fruit to rot 
before it is ripe. The plant that astonishes me most is the Drimys Winterit. 
There are several fine specimens of it from six to ten feet high, and just now 
(January) they are in full flower. The seeds appear to ripen well, but as yet I 
for Ferns, it is too hot and dry ; or at least I have not been able to find any 
but the most common species. The Orange groves are very fine; they have 
to be sheltered from the wind by means of high stone walls, and the Pittospo- 
rum undulatum, which has become quite nat eee here, the whole island 
being overrun with it, and, in the mountains, with the Mediterranean Heath. 
e mountains are grand, rising up one above sea until their peaks are 
lost in the clouds. At the top of the bsc Hh isa large Jake, andi a to 
it a boiling hot spring issues out of the rock, making d vibra 
TE ~ pen all egi it, while dn to it e is » cold one,—so close, in 
t put his little finger thumb in the other." 
Piste members of the Linnean Society have requested J. J. Bennett, Esq., 
their late Secretary, to sit for his portrait, to be placed in their meeting room, 
in testimony of the appreciation of his unwearied zeal, judgment, and courtesy 
in the discharge of his duties for the long series of twenty yea 
WwW Vriese died on the 23rd January, 1862, in the 55th. year of his age. 
He was setipeuivily Botanical Professor at Atben, Amsterdam, and Leyden. 
He contributed numerous papers on economie and medical botany to various 
journals, with a few systematic papers, the most important of which is his mono- 
graph on Goodeniacese and Lobeliaces. Hislibrary and herbaria are to be sol 
by Van den Hoek, at Leyden, on the 11th to the 13th March. There will be sold 
at the same time the library of Dr. R. B. Van den Bosch, who died on the 18th 
January, 1862, at Goes, in Zealand, in the 51st year of hisage. He published 
several papers on Phanerogamia; but he was more especially a Cryptoga mist. 
He assisted Montagne and Lacoste in describing the Cryptogamic plants of 
Java; but his chief works were his memoirs on Hymenophyllacem, on which 
tribe of Ferns his authority was the highest. 
It is just a year since Professor Blume died (February 3rd, 1862). He was 
born at Brunswick, in 1796, educated for the medical profession ; in 1817 he 
went to Java, where his inquiries into the native medicines led him to study 
botany. He collected largely, and began to publish while yet too ds ace 
quainted with what had been done at home. In 1826 he returned to Europe 
on 16th March and following days. It contains an extensive collection of 
natural history works, especially of those bearing on his favourite science. We 
understand that Williams and N. orgate are the agents, in this country, for the 
two auctioneers. 
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