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trois ans. Ainsi je vous prierai, Monsieur, de vouloir bien annoncer dans votre 
journal, que le sus-dit prix sera adjuge a la meilleure monographic inedite, re- 
digee en francais ou en latin, oVune famille ou d'un genre de plantes, qui sera 
adressee, avant le 1" juillet 1869, a la Societe de Physique et d'Histoire Na- 
turelle de Geneve. Je me chargerai, volontiers, de transmettre a la Societe les 
memoires qui me seraient adresses dans ce but." 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
A new Edition (the Sixth) of Professor Babington's ' Manual of British 
Botany' is advertised as nearly ready. 
Dr. Goeppert has sent to the Paris Exhibition a series of twenty-nine pho- 
tographs of the characteristic fossil plants of the Silesian coal-field. These 
photographs are also published by Maruschke and Berendt, of Breslau, with 
ktter-press descriptions by Dr. Goeppert, at the price of thirty-five thalers. 
The specimens photographed are carefully chosen by Dr. Goeppert from his 
very extensive pala?on to logical collection, which contains no fewer than 12,000 
pecimens of fossil plants. His numerous original memoirs, and his very ex- 
tensive acquaintance with the flora of the coal measures ensure that the selec- 
tion is a judicious one, and one that will exhibit the ripe opinions of the distin- 
guished Professor. The work must be consulted by every one who is engaged 
in investigating the fossil plants belonging to this period. It is fortunate that 
_ta species illustrated are nearly all common to the coal-fields of Britain and 
esia. The photographs represent the fossils of the original size. 
Addenda to M. Carroll's List of Iceland Plants s— Lecanora cervina (Pers.) 
A <J., var. smaragdula (Wahl.), Fr. On lava from Hellischeidr. 
ime Bonpland. — We extract the following from an account of a trip to 
entes, by T. J. Hutchinson, published in a recent number of the ' Liver- 
Pool Daily Post :'— 
he saddest recollection of my visit to Corrientes is that connected with 
jay inquiries about tl distinguished botanist M. Amado Bonpland, and my 
**ing ascertained that he is almost forgotten in the place. Bonpland died m 
i at lus estancia in the territory of Missiones, near a town called Mercedes, 
out fifty leagues east from Corrientes city. There be hud a grant of land of 
eagues in extent given to him by the Provincial Government, at the time 
on Juan Pujol was governor of this province in 1854. He was at this 
appointed by Governor Pujol to be director-in-chief of a museum of the 
**& products of the province, just created in the capital. His reply, 
P mg the post, seems to me worthy of being preserved. It is dated Santa 
nn *, 27th October, 1854, and is addressed to the Governor in the following 
w ords :■ — 
should wish to be younger, as well as more worthy to fill the situation of 
E li chlef °f the Museum or Permanent Provincial Exhibition that your 
ency has deigned to oiler me. Although I am now three months be- 
