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studies that we wonder how they could possibly manage to throw off 
so many valuable articles, and we suppose the editor had to write no 
end of polite notes requesting additional supplies of manuscript at 
their earliest possible convenience. All the articles, with the exception 
of the editorial ones, are signed, and they are contributed by the fol- 
lowing botanists, viz. Professor Balfour, Rev. M. J. Berkeley, Mr. A. 
A. Black, Mr. W. B. Booth, Professor Buckman, Mr. W. Carruthers, 
Mr. B. Clarke, Professor Dickie, Mr. W. B. Hemsley, Mr. R. Heward, 
Rev. C. A. Johns, Dr. Masters, Dr. Moore, Mr. T. Moore, Dr. See- 
mann, the late Mr. Alexander Smith, Mr. J. T. Syme, Mr. R. Thomp- 
son, and Mr. W. Thompson. 
Annotationes Critice in Cupuliferas nonnullas Javanicas. Auctore 
J. A. Oudemans. Amstelodami. 1865. 4to, pp.29. Cum 
Tab. XII. 
The Oaks of which Professor Oudemans here makes mention, were 
for the most collected by Junghuhn in Java, and the detailed com- 
parison he has been able to make of them with other specimens in the 
Royal Herbarium, in that of the University of Leyden, and in that of 
Professor Miquel, have enabled him to correct the synonymy and give 
more accurate and copious details of some of these puzzling plants. 
Two new species are described, viz. Q. conocarpa and Lithocarpus 
scutigera. Twelve lithographed plates accompany the descriptions, to 
which is also added an analytieal table of the Oaks of Java arranged 
chiefly according to the peculiarities of their fruits. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
* The Natural History Review,' one of the most ably-conducted journals of 
this country, advocating Darwinian views, has been discontinued. 
Mr. Baker, of Thirsk, has been appointed first assistant of the Kew Her- 
barium 
The Ty Society announces for immediate publication the first volume of 
Robert Brown’s collected writings, edited by Mr. J. J. Bennett, F.R.S. 
botanical journey to Portugal, undertaken chiefly with the view of studying e 
the nature of parasitical plants, in which he is interested, and about which he — 
has published some valuable 
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