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vernment the — € of yen the herbarium and part of the library 
of the late Sir W. Hooke 6000. 
The Stockholm Academy is going to — a photo-lithographic reprint of 
the first edition of Linnzus’s * Systema Nat 
Austrian Government has bought the dp and alpine collection of 
Schott's herbarium, and the Horticultural Society of London the library of the 
late Dr. Lindle 
The series of aimi lectures which Drs. Huxley and Carpenter and Sir 
whether Sunday scientific lectures are or are not an infringement of the law. 
The Jamaica papers of December 6, 1865; remark on the sukjeet 1 of seats 
cultivation : —**The alleged difficult 
difficulties which were regarded with superstitious ‘awe, insomuch that even 
our Prime Minister shared in the delusion, has now been practically solved. 
vend Journ. of Bot. ii. p. 100.) We trust that Mr. Nathaniel Wilson 
some mark of appreciation from the country for his postremam in 
k culation om these valuable plants, notwithstanding obstacles and ‘ good 
and eyil rp 
F Bennett, Miers, Babington, and Daubeny have been elected 
verni of the International Botanical Congress. 
27th of January, died, at Gratz, in his sixty-ninth n: Dr. Joseph 
Maly, Red of a ‘Flora von Deutschland,’ * Botanik für Dam ,’ and several 
other works. He was a native of Prague, but resided the baci part of his life 
at Sapa where he practised as homceopathist until, about fifteen years ago, he 
became totally deaf. In his private character he was a very estimable man, 
botanist 
Our prea of this month must also include the names of Dr. Peter J. 
Lenné, Director General of the Royal Gardens at Potsdam, near Berlin, who 
survives i the Leguminous genus Lennea ; also that of Gooxes. Se 
of a monograph of Sempervivum, of which he 
largest colltions in roe, end many pomologizal atl 
