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will be made in the neighbourhood of Paris, especially during the latter 
part of August. 
We close our record of the International Horticultural Exhibition and Bo- 
tanical Congress by the publication of the following minute, which was unani- 
mously adopted by the Executive Committee at a meeting on the 14th of 
January :— " That a communication be made to the Commissioners of the Ex- 
hibition of 1851, informing them that the Committee of the International 
Horticultural Exhibition have now remaining a balance of eighteen hundred 
pounds (£1800), which sum they are willing to invest in the purchase of the 
Lindley Library and other books, to form the foundation of a Botanical and 
Horticultural Library, to be attached to the Royal Horticultural Society, pro- 
vided her Majesty's Commissioners, who are interested in the advancement of 
the South Kensington Estate, are willing to provide a suitable reading-room, 
with glass cases, for the reception of such library. The room and books to be 
for the use of Fellows of the Koyal Horticultural Society, members of other 
societies, and gardeners generally, under such rules as may be agreed on. The 
Horticultural Society to nominate one of its officers or a clerk to look after the 
same. The room and library to be invested in the names of seven trustees— 
two appointed by the Commissioners, two by the Koyal Horticultural Society, 
two by the International Committee, and one by the six above-named." When 
this is accomplished, the committee will cease to exist, but a fitting monument 
will remain of the great undertaking of last year — one that will prove a lasting 
benefit to all engaged in horticultural pursuits. It should however be remem- 
bered, that the Lindley Library is largely composed of books of interest only 
to the student of scientific botany, and we trust that some provision will be 
made whereby the library will be accessible to those who are not included in 
the designations of the minute, but who would profitably use volumes that 
otherwise might only gather dust and mildew on the shelves of the library. 
Mr. G-. Munby has published a new and greatly improved edition of his 
Catalogue of the Indigenous Plants of Algeria, which we hope to be able to 
notice at greater length in an early number. ■ 
The large collection of fossil vegetables prepared by the late Mr. Nicol, the 
mineralogist, who invented the process of slicing hard substances for micro- 
scopic investigation, have just been purchased by the Trustees of the British 
Museum. They were bequeathed by Mr. Nicol to the late Alex. Bryson, who 
was ardently devoted to natural history pursuits, especially to palaeontology. 
He has not only carefully conserved the Nicol collection, but greatly added to 
it, so that now it consists of nearly six hundred slides. It is well that so 
valuable a collection has become national property, and so accessible to all 
students. 
. Flora of Middlesex. — Dr. Henry Trimen and Mr. Thiselton Dyer take 
this opportunity of thanking the numerous botanists who have sent them hst» 
and notes bearing on the plants of Middlesex, and they hope that any others 
who may have similar material at hand will not delay in forwarding it, as it W 
intended, if possible, to print the work in the autumn.— Address, Dr. Trimen, 
71. Guilford Street, Russell Square, W.C. 
