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BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Dr. Seemann has been obliged to resign the office of Secretary to the Inter- 
national Botanical Congress, to carry out some explorations in New Segovia 
and other little-known parts of Central America. He left Southampton on the 
of March, and proceeds by way of St. Thomas and Panamá to Realejo, 
on the Pacifle, where he will disembark. Dr. Seemann has arranged that 
during his absence the ‘Journal of Botany’ will be edited by Mr. Carruthers, 
of the botanical department of the British Museum. Communications should, 
however, be addressed as before, “ To the Editor of the Journal of Botany.” 
The fourth part of Seemann’s * Flora of Viti,’ containing the Rubiacee and 
Composite, has been published 
The University of Cambridge has purchased the herbarium of the late Pro- 
fessor Lindley (except the Orelidea, which were some time ago purchased for 
the Kew herbarium), for the sum of £300 
- The acting committee of the Botanical Congress, to be held in May next, in 
connection with the International Horticultural Exhibition, consisting of a 
number of eminent botanists in London and the provinces, are successfully 
carrying out the Rape nee for the meeting, which promises to be a la 
and important one. By permission of the Lords of the Committee of Council 
on Education, His have obtained the use of the Raphael cartoon room of the 
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Lecoq, Seemann, Masters, Van Hulle, Srt Bipontius and others. There 
will be two meetings of the Congress ; at the first, on May 23rd, Professor De 
Candolle will deliver his inaugural iiir copies of which will be circulated 
meeting will be held on the following day. Besides the grand banquet at the 
Guildhall on May 22nd, there will be two conversazioni, one on the evening 
of bid 23rd, the other on May 25th. Botanists intending to take part in 
the Congress d communicate with Dr. Maxwell Masters, the honorary 
seid at the office of the exhibition, 1, William Street, Lowndes Square, 
London, S.W. 
The third volume of the bens ——— Carpologia’ of the Messrs. 
Tulasne, completing the work, has just been published. It concludes the ac- 
count of the Spheriacei, to which the second volume was entirely devoted, con- 
taining the section Neetriei, which occupies the bulk of the volume, the re- 
min space being given to selections from the Helvellacei and the Phacidei. 
The four volumes which these ee re siad published, d Mus 
- Hypogsei,' and the present work, em which 
however, ue have only Ka > age majority of cases, selected dac 
; Hh new wee kly “periodical, *Seientifie Opinion, is announced for 
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important discoveries, and observations in the dif- 
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