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just completed the number of Pupils was 170 ; Lectures, 60 ; Practical and 
Histological Demonstrations, 56 ; and Saturday excursions, 11. The number of 
species Collected during the excursions was— Phanerogamous plants, 625; 
Ferns and their allies, 36 ; Mosses and Hepatica?, 140 ; Lichens, Alga?, and 
Fungi, 90 ; total, 891 ; and the number of miles travelled by railway, steamboat, 
and walking, was 650. The number of students at the excursions varied from 45 
to 90; and" the total expense to each student of all these trips amounted to 
£1. 8*. 8d. In announcing the prizes for next year, Professor Balfour informs 
us, that in addition to the gold medal for the best herbarium of Phanerogams 
collected within twenty miles of Edinburgh, and the prize for the best collection 
of Cryptogams from the same district, his Highness the Maharajah of Jeypore 
Ram Singh Bahudur, G.C.g.L, has offered a prize of twenty pounds for the 
best collection of Scottish Phanerogamous plants and Ferns ; and another 
prize of live pounds for the best and approved collection, either of Scottish 
Mosses and Lichens or of Scottish Sea-weeds. The collections are to become 
the property of the Maharajah, and to be deposited in the Museum of his 
Highness at Jeypore. 
A memorial tablet, of beautiful design, the work of Mr. R. Palgrave, en- 
closing a cast in "Wedgwood ware" of Mr. Woolner's medallion of the late 
Sir William Hooker, is about to be erected in Kew Church, near the grave o 
the famous botanist. The medallion occupies the centre of a composition o 
panels that are decorated with Ferns, etc., in low relief, the fronds being 
arranged so that their lines harmonize with their position on the monument ; 
the panels are divided, and mounted in mouldings of white marble, lne P 
trait is of white, on a ground of smalt blue, the foliage of white on a delicate 
green ; buff is used for certain minor panels which appear round the heat , 
and, like their more important companions, are decorated with Ferns. Apa 
from the medallion, the charm of this work is in the exquisitely delicate exe- 
cution of the fronds, which have been modelled with the utmost elegance and 
sense of natural grace by Mr.' Palgrave, whose skill is already known from 
a monument erected by him in Reigate churchyard. It would be impossib e 
to praise too highly the subtle beauty of outline, the quiet loveliness of the 
curves, and the wealth of delicate contours whieh appear in this remarka 
specimen of modelling. t , 
Government has decided on the cultivation of Cinchona in Jamaica, « 
propagation of which is now being carried on favourably. " I now P° ssess > 
writes Mr. Robert Thomson, " 3000 plants, mostly from seed procured throug i 
Dr. Hooker. The introduction of the cultivation of the Assam Tea plan &»§ 
also under the consideration of G-overnment — a few acres. Comparative y 
tensive tracts of land exist throughout Surrey, one of the three counties ^ 
which the island is divided, eminently adapted for the above two cultures. 
Card. Citron. . 
Botanical Society of Edinbukgh.— Thursday, llth July. WimamGorrie, 
Esq., V.P., in the chair.— The following communications were nnd : ^. *' ut . ' 
Dickie on Buxbaumia iadusiata (vide ante, p. 262). II. Botanical Intt iilge ^ 
By Professor Balfour. 1. Tulbotia eletjam. Dr. Balfour placed on the to 
