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The chapter on Norwegian agriculture in olden times, will be found 
to be replete with interest. A well-executed map, showing the alti- 
tudes of the various parts of the country, and the limits at which the 
cereals and trees will grow, is appended, followed by statistical tables 
of meteorological interest, and several plates of some remarkable trees. 
On the whole, the volume will well repay study, and evinces unmis- 
takable signs that the author is a man of great observation and of 
practical worth to his countrymen. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The office of Colonial Botanist at the Cape of Good Hope, vacant by the 
death of Dr. Pappe, has been conferred upon Mr. Brown, of Aberdeen, who 
has travelled over a considerable part of Africa. 
The Berlin Academy has elected Mr. Charles Darwin a Corresponding 
occur in it; he found the formation to be extremely rich in organic rem 
and, besides containing many species of Ammonites and other Mollusca, to 
include large quantities of drifted wood, the fragments bearing on their sur- 
face the impressions of Ammonites. à 
r. R. Brown, a student of Edinburgh University, who has distinguished 
himself in his natural history pursuits, has gone to British Columbia on beh 
of an Edinburgh association to collect plants and seeds suitable for cultivation 
at home. It is his intention to remain for three years in the colony, and 
to form collections in every department of natural history, making the vegetable 
productions however his principal object. 
accommodation provided in the University of Cambridge for the Profes- 
sors of Anatomy, Botany, and Chemistry, and their various teaching collections, 
has hitherto been exceedingly inconvenient and insufficient. The University 
have just decided to remedy this. A new building is to be erected for the 
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species, and presented to the University in accordance with his desire. —— 
The Botanical Gardens at Chelsea were the first public gardens established 
in London for purely scientific purposes. Induced, as it is likely, by utilitarian 
motives, the Society of Apothecaries established this garden in 1673, but instead 
of making it simply a druggists’ market-garden, they devoted it to a larger 
