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Robert Brown, published in German by Nees yon Esenbeck, We are there- 
fore glad to announce that Mr. J. J. Bennett has now in the press a complete 
edition of these valuable writings, to be published by the Kay Society ; the 
letterpress will be in octavo, and the plates be given in a separate Atlaa. 
We are glad to learn that the projected ' Contributions to a Cjbele Hibemiea* 
is making satisfactory progress in the hands of Mr. A. G-. More and Dr. D. 
Moore. They hope to complete and publish it in the present year. A notice 
has been printed and circulated in the hope of obtaining help from scientific 
men towards the expense of publication. A subscriber of 10^. will receive a 
copy of a book, or 20^. two copies. Subscriptions will be thankfully received 
by Dr. E. P. Wright, 5, Trinity College, Dublin, and Dr. D. Moore, Glasuevin 
Botanic Grarden, Dublin. 
* Analytical Drawings of Australian Mosses/ edited by Ferdinand Mueller, 
Ph.D., etc. (Melbourne, 1864), is the title of an elegant little volume, dedicated 
to Sir Charles Nicholson, and, containing twenty engravings of Australian 
Mosses, with a short description of each species. These Mosses were collected 
mostly by Dr. F. Mueller, in the southern parts of Australia, and the descrip- 
tions have been furnished by Dr. Hampc, of Blankenburg, aided by Dr. Carl 
Mueller, now of Berlin. The iUustrations were drawn in Berlin, and under the 
editor's supervision, lithographed by Mr, F. Schoenfeld, in Melbourne. 
The valuable 'Supplement to English Botany* continues to appear, although 
at rather long intervals. No. LXXXI., just arrived, contains plates of Teu- 
crinm Botrifs^ Alchemilla conjuvcfa^ Xllex GaJlU, and Poferium mvncafiim^ 
and the text to complete former numbers, as well as that belonging to the above- 
named plants. We need scarcely remind our readers that this Supplement is 
carefully prepared, and is requisite to complete either the original or gecond 
editions of ' English Botany,* 
We regret to announce the death of Dr. Hugh Falconer, F.K.S., which took 
place in London on the 31st of January last. Falconer was bom at Forres, 
Scotland, on the 29th of February, 1808, and received his education at Aber- 
deen and Edinburgli, afterwards proceeding to the East>- Indies, where he held 
for some time the office of Director of the Botanic Gardens at Suharunpore 
and Calcutta. He was better known as a fossil zoologist than a botanist ; yet 
we owe to him a considerable collection of dried plants, some excellent reports 
on the cultivation of tea and chinchona, and the preservation of teak forests 
in India, as well as several valuable botanical papers communicated to the 
Linnean Society, viz. 'On the Asclepiad Affinities of C^^ptolepis,^ 'On Aiidc- 
landia Cosfus^^ the Cashmere plant which yields the Cosius of the ancients, 
' On Narthex Asafcetida,' which produces the Assafcetida of commerce ; and 
* OnAthalamia, a new Genus of Marchantiea.* Falconer was the first who 
settled the much disputed questions about tlie plants which produce the Costus 
of the ancients and the Assafoetida of commerce ; and before his first departure 
to India he assisted Dr. Wallich in the distribution of his herbarium. 
Miss Gifford, the author of * Marine Botany,' has pubhshed, in the Eeport of 
the Cornwall Natural History Society, an able memorial of the late Miss War- 
ren, from which we shall make a few extracts .—The late Miss Warren, of Flush- 
