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NEW PUBLICATIONS. 
Hardy Ferns \ How I Collected mid CuUviated tJiem, By Nona Bel- 
lairs. London: Smith, Elder, and Co, 8vo series. 
This little volume, appropriately dedicated to Mr. Thomas Moore, 
of Chelsea, who has done so much to render the study of Ferns popular, 
is written in a charming style, and narrates the rambles of a lady in 
search of ferns, and her efforts to cultivate them. The book is free 
from technicalitieSj and will probably draw fresh votaries to the study 
of ferns. Those who favour ns with the naiTative of their excursions 
would do well to read it carefully ;, it w^ould show them how interesting 
such trips may be made to others if properly told. We heartily con- 
gratulate Miss Bellairs on her success. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Mr. Yau Yoorst has just published *An Illustrated Key to the T^atural 
Orders of British Wild Flowers,' by John E. Sowerby, and a school edition of 
E, Newman's ' British Perns.' Trom Prof. Daubeny we have * The Trees and 
Shrubs of tbe Ancients.' 
We regret to have to record the death of William Freeman Daniell, M.D., 
F.L.S., well knovm for his ardour in the pursuit of botanical knowledge, which 
he was enabled greatly to promote during a long residence on various parts of 
the West Coast of Africa, in the course of which he made many successful 
journeys into the interior, and also during two visits to the West Indies, and 
one to Northern Cliina. Dr. Daniell's residence in Africa dated almost from 
his boyhood, and he was first occupied in commercial pursuits ; but on his 
return to England he graduated as a physician, and entered the medical ser- 
vice of the array, in which he rose to be first on the list of staff-surgeons. 
After passing seventeen years in Africa, he was for some time stationed in 
Jamaica and the Bahamas, and afterwards served throughout the Expedition 
to China in 1860, where he had medical charge of one of the divisions of the 
army. Soon after his return he was again sent to Jamaica, where his fine con- 
stitution, which had so long resisted even an African climate, was completely 
broken down, and he returned to England in September last with confirmed 
disease of the lungs. He died at Southampton on the 26th of June, at the age 
of forty-seven, and was buried at Kensal Green on the 3rd of July. He was 
a Fellow of the College of Surgeons, and also of the Linnean, Geographical, 
and Pharmaceutical Societies. In the course of his long residence in Africa he 
became well acquainted with several of the principal native dialects, and also 
