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as complete as possible. Last year (1863) slie exhibited at the Polytechnic 
Society a collection of British Freshwater Algae, which received the first Bronze 
MedaL Before another meeting was held, she had passed to her eternal rest! 
This mournful event took place on the 5th May, 1863, at Flushing, near Fal- 
mouth, Cornwall lost in her an accomplished botanist, and all who were 
honoured with her friendship mourn a true and firm friend. It is to be 
regretted that Miss Warren did not mate any disposition in her will of her 
collections. It is to be hoped that eventually they will be secured to some 
Institution in Cornwall or elsewhere, where tliey will be properly preserved and 
appreciated. 
Botanical Society op ExuxflUKaH. — November 10. — Professor Balfour, 
the President, delivered an opening address, in which he said : — I have much 
pleasure in congratulating the members on the continued prosperity of this 
Society. Uniting as it does advanced botanists and junior students of science, 
it has acted most beneficially in promoting the cause of botany. The volume 
of Transactions whi(;h is now put into your hands shows the good wort done 
during the past session. In the department of structure and morphology, I 
call attention to the paper by Dr. Alexander Dickson on diplostemonous flowers, 
in which he points out the mode of the development of the staminal whorls in 
several Natural Orders, especially the Malv^acece. The paper has been reprinted 
by Baillon, Mr. Jenner's paper on the accessory organs of Selaginella is also 
one of interest. In the department of physiology I have to notice a paper on 
the fertilization of Orchids, by Dr. Eutlierford; also, papers on the sexual 
changes in the inflorescence of Zea Mai/s, and on the sexuality of the higher 
Cryptogams, by Mr. John Scott, who has gone to India under the auspic*es of 
Mr. Darwin. On the subject of Canadian Ferns and filicoid plants, a paper has 
been contributed by Dr. George Lawson, at present Professor of Chemistry in 
Dalhousie College, Halifax, Xova Scotia. In economical botany, we are much 
indebted to Professor Archer. The cultivation of tea, chinchona, and cotton is 
attracting much attention nowadays. Our Indian possessions are well fitted 
for the production of these important articles ; and the reports of Dr. Thomas 
Anderson, Mr. Wm. Jameson, and Dr. Alexander Hunter, have been most 
satisfactory. I have sent to India, within the last few years, five or six gar- 
deners, brought up chiefly under the du^ection of Mr. M'Nab, the able super- 
intendent of the Botanic Oarden. These men are doing credit to our garden 
aa a school of horticulture as well as of botany. "VTe have had the pleasure of 
welcoming back our friend Dr. Kirk, who accompanied Livingstone, and has 
given us an account of the products of Zambesi and of Southern Africa. We 
may i-ecord the addition made to our flora in the finding of Goodj/era repens 
at Dalmeny, by M. Claudio L. Serra, a Portuguese student, who thus discovers 
a new plant in a district so wet examined. The same may be said of the dis- 
covery of Asp I e mum viride, near Cramond, by Dr. Carruthers. We are adding 
to our flora year after year, Tliis year two new localities have been found for 
CoraUorMza—om by Dr. Dickson, and the other by Mr. Sandilands. Two 
ladies, Mrs. and Miss M'Inroy, have contributed useful notices relative to tha 
Mosses of Perthshire. Fossil botanv has also occupied a share of our atten- 
