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articles to this Journal, and to the tenth 
complete list of Japan plants ever 
64 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
most important point has been gained by the promoters of the Interna- 
tional Hortieultural Exhibition and Botanical Congress by the Lord Mayor, 
granting the use of the Guildhall for holding, on the 22nd of May, the great 
. banquet projected. For the information of our foreign readers, we may add 
that this hall is the largest in London, and has never before been used for any 
species, scraps sufficient for identiflcation would be most acceptable. Address, 
“Dr. Trimen, 71, Guildford Street, Russell Square, London, W.C.;" 
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We regret to have to announce the death of Mr. Thomas Bridges, well 
known by his extensive botanical explorations of many parts of America, who 
died on the 9th of November last, whilst return 
of Nicaragua. He was a son-in-law of the late Mr. Hugh Cuming. 
The death of the veteran botanist, Dr. Jean Frangois Camille Montagne, Mem- 
ber of the Institute of France, and one of the most eminent togamic bota- 
nists, is a great loss to science. He was born on the 15th of February, 1784, 
at Vaudoy, went to sea at the age of fourteen, afterward Pe Es 
to 
n on a visit to 
his constitution was fast breaking up, 
gland. He 
ea: 
daman Islands, of which both he and his brother 
availed themselves. They left on the 29th of November, and on the 4th of 
ber Mr. A. Black was no more. He was buried on one of the 
Cocos, amongst the luxuriant foliage of the tropics. He contributed a few short 
volume of the * Bonplandia’ the most 
