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allied to Linaria ; and Dr. Asherson supplies an artiele ^f^t'Jvro 
he shows to have more than one species. Both are reprinted froir ithe ^Pro- 
ceedings of the Berlin Academy.' Professor Braun has also published, m the 
Bot. Zeitung, a posthumous paper of Dr. Mettenius, on Phylloglossun to 
which we would call special attention. Professor T. Caruel topmtedj 
valuable paper on the changes wrought in the flora of Tuscany by mtrodu d 
plants during the last three centuries (' Di alcuni Cambiamcnti avvenutiuel 
Flora della Toscana in questi ultimi tre secoli'). Mr. W^ UW»™ 
done good service to science by publishing, in connection with the New Zealand 
Exhibition of 1865, an « Essay on the Botany of the North Is and oMSew 
Zealand," Ming 58 pages. The « Report of the Marlborough Allege Natural 
History Society, for the half-year ending Christmas, 1866," has come to hand 
and shows thai this young Society is increasing in vigour and "f*^™ 
same remark applies, with perhaps greater force, to the Acclimatization Society 
of South Wales, the last Report on which has just reached us 
Old Engelbert Kempfer, the celebrated German traveller of the seventeen n 
century, has been honoured with a monument. It was erected a far dig £JJ 
the little town of Lemgo, in the principality of Lippe (tompfa s *^°* 
and consists of a column twenty feet high, ornamented with Gothic arch* and 
pinnacles. On the monument Krempfer's travels are ' m ^^.^T^ 
<• Persia, 1684-1688 ; Java, 1689 ; Siam, 1690 ; Japan, 1690, 1691, 169£ 
column bears, besides, the following inscription : -«Engelbert R*mpfe n bo 
at Lemgo, 16 September, 1651, died at Lieme, 2 November 1716. < P 
fer's manuscripts and the portion of his herbarium collected m Japan 
as the plants he obtained from the Botanical Gardens at Leyden, as » 
known, were bought by Sir Hans Sloanc, and are kept (for the great * i 
unpublished) in the British Museum. --MMrin* 
The series of Reports on the Paris International Exhibition now pnbtotag 
in the ■ Illustrated London News ' have been drawn up at the instan ., ^.^ 
fi« mm ,>fPA n f n™,™! on Education. Those relating to botany m i • 
Committee ot Council on jiuucation. xnusc iej«.... h . , the 
sense are the following, viz. "Products of the Cultivation of *™ Uural 
Products appertaining thereto," by Mr. ^^^Jf.K.S, 
Products (not used as food) easily Preserved," by Dr. 1. Thonuo , ^^ 
"Cereals and other Edible Farinaceous Products, and th ^ ^f * Hogg; 
from them," by Mr. Harry Chester j " Vegetables and Fruit, ty • ^ 
" Flowers and Ornamental Plants," by Mr. T. Thomson ; and 
Saplings of Forest Trees," by Dr. Hooker. _ town for 
A wealthy citizen of Berlin has applied to the municipality m * of thc 
a site on which to erect a statue of Francis Drake, as the intro ^ 
Potato into Europe, and offers to subscribe £2250 towards the stt • ^ ^ 
seems an easy way of settling the doubt lingering about the ear y u ^^ {n 
Potato, and to which the corrupted Spanish name winch the P ^^^ 
English, and the corrupted Italian it bears in German, or 
French and Dutch ones, give no clue. __Vv , illiam 
Botanical Society of Edinbubgii.— Thursday, 13W ,/w " icat j 0IU 
Gorrie, Esq., Vice-President, in the chair. The following conim 
