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BOTANICAL NEWS. 
A cireular has been issued, calling attention to a vote of thanks Laie to Dr. 
Lindley, on his retiring, after forty years’ service, from the secretarial duties of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, and also inviting subscriptions, limited | to one 
guinea, for a Lindley Testimonial. 
Mr. Gustav Mann, the botanical collector for Kew Gardens on the west coast 
of Africa, is now making for England, and will visit on his wey Teneriffe and 
Spain 
M. Pablo Fest, at present residing at Cuyaba, in the Brazilian province of 
Grosso, and collecting living plants, seeds, and specimens for the herba- 
and museum, would be able to execute any orders he may receive. Let- 
Montevideo, who has kindly consented to forward them. 
Mr. Jacob Storck, on sending a second epoca of diea plants, says in . 
letter to us that he has made an excursion to the interior of Viti Levu 
actually seen the inland lake, of the existence rat which the Government mission 
to Fiji could only report on hearsay. He speaks of an edible rah and the 
iscovery of a new pinnated Palm, resembling Kentia? exorrhiza and attain- 
ing 40 feet in height. His cotton plantation had fully rape is expec 
ion. *I have only three labourers,” he writes, * and this year e T have 
sold 50 cwt. of cotton; next year I calculate nt 500 cwt.” 
The Austrian Government, we learn from Vienna, has granted 80,000 florins 
defraying part of the expenses of f publishing es natural history collec- 
tions formed during the voyage of the ‘ Novara.’ Dr. Kotschy and Professor 
nger are now engaged in bringing out cis narrative of their trip to Cyprus, 
which has been productive of a rich collection of plants, twelve hundred spe- 
cies irn d es gathered in hace island in less than four months. 
Professor Asa Gray, in a recent issue of the Proceedings of the American 
Academy, a obituaries at four botanists of the United States, who died : 
1862, viz. Benjamin D. Greene, Esq., of Boston, on the 14th of October, at - 
the age of 69 years; Dr. Asahel Clapp, of New Albany, Indiana, on the 17th 
Decem i Dr. Melines C. Leavenworth, in the vicinity of New Or leans, in 
December; and Dr. Charles Wilkins Short, at Louisville, Kentucky, on the 
7th of March, i in his 69th year. 
Died, on the 19th of April last, at Mutzig, aged 67 years, M. Paul Constant 
Billot, Professor of Natural History, well known by his carefully and critically 
€ plants of central Europe, and the valuable annotations accompanying 
them. 
BOTANICAL SOCIETY or EDINBURGH.— March 12th.—Professor Balfour gave 
a description of the Pandanus odoratissimus, which has recently produced pis* 
tilliferous flowers in the Palm-house at the Royal Botanic Garden. The plant 
