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papers, to the effect that Dr. Seemann is about to start on an expedition to 
North-eastern Asia, is entirely without foundation. 
Professor Schleiden, who has retired on his pension to Dresden, is said to be 
engaged on * A Life of Linnæus. 
Rev. W. A. Leighton, F.L.S., is preparing for publication a Synopsis 
of British Lichens. 
e have received an account of the 25th i y of the Natural History 
Society, “ Pollichia," which was celebrated in September last, at Deidesheim, 
under the presidency of Dr. Pauli. The Town Hall had been placed at the 
disposal of the meeting, and assumed a festive appearance, being decorated 
with garlands, and the names of Koch, Bruch, Bischoff, and other botanists of 
the district who attainer a European celebrity. The scienti 
fic papers were nume- 
seem to have outdone themselves 
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received the name “ Pollichia wine.” 
Under the title * Du Spitzberg au Sahara, Professor Charles Martins, of 
Montpellier, has published Natural History observations on various countries 
within those limits. Those on the f Spitzbergen form a useful supplement 
to Dr. Torrel’s valuable paper, printed in the second volume of our Journal. 
On noticing Dr. F. Mueller’s * Vegetation of the Chatham Islands ' we ex- 
pressed regret that the author had not deferred his publieation until Dr. 
Hooker's * Handbook of the New Zealand Flora' should have reached him. 
We might have written with 
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» à volume on the plants of New Zealand, written by Dr. 
J. D. Hooker, passed, in London, through the press, for which Mr. Travers’s 
collections became not timely accessible. But while the new researches on the 
New Zealand plants were still unknown to me, I purposely gave simultaneous 
publicity to my own observations, in order that the independent views of two 
observers might be compared? Dr. 
à d Epiiobiums and nine- 
> gnizes but one species of each genus ; * that through 
want of extensive field studies untenable limits are assigned to a yast number 
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