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also been appointed, with Sir C. Wcntsvorth Dilke, Bait., F.L.S., as chairman, 
Mr. J.J. Blandy, V.P.R.H.S., as deputy chairimai), Sir Daniel Cooper, Bart., 
as treasurer, Mr. Thornas Moore as secretary of the Exhibition, Dr. Berthold 
Seeniann for the congress^ and Dr. Hogg for general business. The other 
members of the executive committee are Messrs, Bentley, W. Bull, E. Easton, 
C Edmunds, J. Fleming, R. Fortune, J. Gibson, Lee, Masters, T. Osbom, 
W. Paul, J. Standish, C Turner, and Veitch, Prizes to the aggregate amount 
of £2400 vriW be a^varded for new or well-cultivated plants and fruits. All the 
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leading botanists and horticulturists throughout Europe will be invited to take 
part. At the Congress, papers previously printed in English and the original 
will be read. Two conversazioni, a banquet, and other entertaiuuients, are 
also contemplated. 
Dr. Lindlcy's Herbarium of Orchids has become the property of the Kew 
Museum. 
Etforts are now making in Gennany for the purpose of organizing an Arctic 
Exploring Expedition, and those interested in the success of the plan held their 
first meeting in the Goethe House at Frankfort-on-the- Maine. The movement 
originated with Drs. Volger and Petermann. 
Mr. M. C. Cooke has just pubhshed, as a supplementary number to Hard- 
wicke's 'Science Gossip,' an 'Easy Guide to the Study of the British Hej^a- 
ticm^ containing a complete catalogue of the British species, with a figure of 
each, at the unprecedented price of fonr^ence ! We shall speak of it more fully. 
We almost fear that a paragraph of our last issiie, stating that the new edition 
of Babington's ' Manual * had not yet appeared^ ia rather calculated to mislead, 
implying as it does that a new edition may immediately be looked for. A con- 
siderable time, however, must yet elapse before that event takes place. 
At the last great Flower Show, held at the Botanic Gardens, Regent's Park, 
Mr. W. Bull exhibited a newly-introduced and unnamed kind of Radish, 
from the East Indies, the fruit of which, stated to grow three inches during a 
single night, T\as recommended to be eaten instead of the root as in the ordinary 
radish. From specimens kindly placed at our disposal by the exhibitor, we 
find the plant to be Eaphayms eandatns^ Linn., of which, books of reference in- 
form us, the leaves are eaten as a vegetable, and the seeds are pickled. The 
petals are whitish, tipped with purple, and traversed by purple veins, and the 
fruit is several feet long. We fancy this is the first time that tliis annual has 
been introduced, and there is no reason to believe that it cannot be grown with 
us in the open air. 
It is our melancholy duty to announce the death of Dr. Samuel W'ood- 
ward, which took place at Heme Bay on the 11th of July. Dr. Wood- 
ward was born on the 17th of September, 1821. In 1845 be was appointed 
Professor of Botany and Geology in the Royal Agricultural College, and in 
1848 first-class assistant in the Department of Geology and Mineralogy at the 
British Museum. He was the author of a good elementary book on recent and 
fossil shellsj and numerous valuable ai'ticlcs in scientific periodirals and trans- 
actions. 
