mes elles ne se rapporteraient qu'à un seul d 
‘Rees, quand elles auront conduit à quelque résultat i 
New Zealand. . He writes, April 5th, from 
Improved, and that he has made an excursion into th 
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into four nearly equal districts, and endeavours to give a complete Flora 
uF euch: of them. They are chiefly seated upon the chalk formation ; 
containing much of the high chalk downs, Savernake forest, the water 
meadows in the valley of the river Kennet, and a portion of the Yale 
of Pewsey. The species are arranged and named as in Babington's 
‘Manual,’ and much care has been taken to ensure accuracy in the 
nomenclature ; to point out the authority for their introduction into the 
list; and also to distinguish the naturalized from the native plants. 
The number of plants recorded is about 520, the result of five years’ 
examination of the district, during such time as the author ‘could 
snatch from the arduous duties of a master in a large school. He 
modestly states his belief that many additions probably remain to be 
made to the list, and he trusts, by publishing it now, that he “ may be 
enabled sooner to obtain assistance from those who have paid any atten- 
tion to the subject; ” and also have many new localities pointed out for 
some of the species. 
_ Cireumstaneed as he is, in a position where he may succeed in causing 
boys to take an interest in botany and other of the natural sciences, by 
‘example, precept, and the help afforded to them by such a book as this, 
we certainly think that the author has done well to publish now, and 
not to wait for more completeness. Such additions and improvements 
as may be found necessary will probably soon be made, and we trust 
that so much interest in botany will spring up in the college that an 
early and enlarged second edition may be required. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
ciety of Science, has been won 
The following prize, offered by the Haarlem So 
it being the third time during 
by Dr. Geeppert, Professor of Botany at Breslau, 
id twenty years that he has gained the prize of that Society :—'" De quelle 
ture sont les corps solides observés dans des d 
iamants ; appartiennent-ils au 
recherches à ce sujet, quand 
jamant, pourront tre couron- 
ntéressant." 
cellent British botanist, and weil 
i safely in New Zealand. 
règne minéral ou sont-ils des végétaux? Des 
Mr. Thomas Kirk, late of Coventry, an ex 
H wn to most of his fellow-workers, has arriv 
€ was obliged to emigrate on account, of ill. health, and proposes to collect in 
Auckland, that bis health is much 
e interior. 
