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abandoned the rest. Those now described, however, seem to me types of legi- 
timate genera, differing often materially, not only in leaves and flowers, but in 
their fruits and seeds, which latter Haller and Linné neglected to examine ; 
and to join them all in one genus solely for their peculiar juice would be as 
absurd as to join all Ricinee, Diosmee, Amyridee, Asclepiadee, Myrtee, or 
uree.” 
However little botanists at the present day may be disposed to con- 
cur in such extreme subdivision, or in the arguments by which it is 
supported, there is no doubt that much may be gained from the obser- 
vations of so accurate and careful an investigator; and it is well to 
have such a specimen to refer to of the mode in which he proposed to 
carry out his principles. Dr. Gray deserves well of science for having 
furnished us with it, and for having left it exactly in the form in which 
it came into his hands, without any attempt at adaptation, and without 
reference to publications which have appeared subsequent to its prepa- 
ration by its author for the press. 
INTERNATIONAL BOTANICAL CONGRESS. 
The Meetings of the Congress were held in the South Kensington 
Museum, the first, on May 28rd, in the Raphael Cartoon Gallery, and 
the second, on May 24th, in the Sheepshanks Gallery. A very large 
meeting, including almost all the British and foreign botanists and 
shinai present in London, assembled to hear the President’s 
Among the foreign botanists were Lecoq (Clermont-Ferrand), 
Weddell Poitiers); Kickx (Ghent), Morren (Liége), Van Heurck (Ant- 
werp), Caspary (Kénigsberg), Reichenbach (Hamburg), Karl Koch 
(Berlin), Schultz-Bipontinus (Diedesheim), Wendland (Hanover), 
Meissner (Basle), and Triana (New Granada) ; and of British bota- 
nists, Bennett (British Museum), Berkeley (London), Daubeny (Ox- 
ford), Miers (London), Moore (Dublin), Gray (British Museum), 
Bentley (London), Masters (London), Dickson (Edinburgh), Howard 
(London), Wight araor Ward (London), ete. ete. 
business had been arranged by the Congress Committee, and 
everything was admirably nd out under the direction of Dr. Masters, 
Secretary to the Congress. 
The follcwing works were laid on the table :— 
A Manuscript Clavis to the * Hortus Malabarieus. By Dr. Hass- 
karll. 
