96 NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Professor Babington, of Cambridge, is collecting the materials for a thorough 
revision of the Flora of Iceland. He will be greatly obliged to any botanists 
who may possess information concerning the plants really gathered there, if they 
will communicate with him on the subject. 
At the last meeting of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, on presenting the 
Neill Medal to Dr. Greville, Sir David Brewster said :— 
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List of Fishes in the Forth and Lakes and Rivers near Edinburgh,’ and another 
by the Council of the Society) In fulfilling this trust, the Council wisely 
adopted the triennial in place of the biennial period, and the first adjudication 
rder Algw,' was published in 1830; and he has inserted in the * Microscopi 
Journal’ no fewer than twelve papers on the Diatomacea, an interesting subject 
which still occupies his attention. But Dr. Greville's services to science have 
not been limited by his writings, He has been an ardent collector of plants and 
other objects of natural history. In 1824 the University of Glasgow conferred 
upon Dr. Greville the degree of Doctor of Laws; and many of the natural history 
ieties in Europe and America have received him among their co E 
or honorary members,” 
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