160 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
On March the 25th, Mr. Clements R. Markham read, at a meeting of the So- 
ciety of Arts, an interesting paper on the “Supply of Quinine and the Cultiva- 
tion of Chinchona Plants in India,” which gave rise to an animated discussion, 
in which Messrs. J. E. Howard, Daniel Hanbury, B. Seemann, P. L. Simmonds, 
Gerstenberg, Samuel Howard, King Chambers, Munro, etc., took part. A report 
of od meeting will be found in No. 540 of the ‘ Journal of the Society of Arts.’ 
are sorry to record the deaths of two naturalists, whose memories ought 
not otis away without notice here. The Rev. W. L. P. Garnons, Vicar o 
Ulting, Essex, who died on March 5th, will be best remembered as a University 
preacher; but he did much for botany, and other branches of natural history; 
when that meant more than it does now. The Rev. W. T. Bree, M.A., forty 
years rector of AS. who dicd on February 25th, an 77, during his long 
were excellent of their kind, and full of good si His meii of Lastrea 
emula, which from the first he distinguished from its allies, is alone enough to 
oe his position as a botanist. He was early aware of the importance of com- 
natural history calendars, and became perhaps as much impressed as 
aig one of his time with the distinction between truly native and only natu- 
ralized plants. Some papers by him in the *Saturday Magazine, we know, 
made several pupils in one school eager to be botanists, and his writings as 8 
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tion MY his numerous contributions, but are sure that, if they re- 
present Mr. Bree correctly, srg ae botanists, and parishioners will long 
lament this most amiable m T 
DRIED PLANTS FOR ees ds Rostan, an excellent botanist, residing at 
Perrier, in one of the Vaudois valleys, who, besides numerous other additions 
to the flora of Piedmont, has rediscovered several plants not known to botanists 
since the time of Alli oni, proposes to publish a collection of two hundred 
species of western Pa In the list will be found Arabis Pedemontana, 
Boiss., Isatis alpina, All., i ed furcatus, Ball, Cerastium lineare, All, 
Trifolium e L., Ribes purpureum, Rost., Basifrego Vaidensis, DO., 
Centaurea Kotschyana, o le Campanula EU L., Gentiana Rostani, 
I: Veronica see AIL, Allium Valdensium pea: and many wees 
ry rare species. The parcels will be dist made up, wd specimens W 
dried, and several will be given of each of the smaller species. The price to 
ibers who send their names to Dr. Rostan before the 1st p August, 1863, 
2s. ; e to non-subscribers, £2: in each case exclusive 
of carriage. Address iii B aoo to Dr. Rostan, Perrier, vid 
Pignerol, ced It will facilitate the transmission of the parcels if each 
applieant will ddress in London to which they may be forwarded.—J. B. 
EnRATA.— Page 72, line 11 from above, read “one and a half ? instead 
of “half à degree ;" page 84, line 13 from below, read “ latter ” for ' lake.” 
