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the name Oudleria, satisfied that by her discoveries she had ampiy earned “ the 
highest compliment that oné botanist can ny on — For some time 
infirm health and advancing l her to give up the pursuit of 
her favourite studies. In “1861 she presented her Pda silane of British 
æ to the herbarium of the British Museum. It contains some of the Snest 
specimens, in the best condition, of the rarer British species that have ever been 
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t to find that Willkomm and Lange will be compelled to discontinue 
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tant desideratum in botanical libraries should not command a circulation of 
one hundred copies! 
The University of Oxford took advantage of the visit of Professor De Can- 
an LL.D. Both honours Lin eonferred at the same time on Dr. Joseph D. 
It will be gratifying to our readers to learn that in a money point of - 
the Great Taisia Flower-show and Botanical Congress has been as greai 
a success as it was in every other aspect. It is expected that a handsome er 
valuable volume of transactions will be published by the Congress Committee. 
One of the most hardworking and successful of botanical collectors in Heic 
Asia, Mr. Richard Oldham, died in Nov. 1864, at Amoy. As successor to Mr. 
G. Wilford, he was for some time attached to H.M. surveying vessel Swallow ; 
ted attacks of fever, caused by exposure and climatic influence, compelled 
him to cross isi. for medical aid, to the mainland of beris where, notwith- 
standing ev re, he succumbed to dysentery. We are glad to record that, 
through on idees of Mr. Swinhoe, a handsome dni on was made b; 
the friends and acquaintances of the deceased, and tha t a plain but substantial 
tion, from the pen of Dr. H. F. Hance :—* In memoriam Ricardi am, qui 
Manchurir, Coreæ, Japoniæ oris, insuleque Formose virgineis sylvis, botanices 
causa summo cum successu sedulo perlustratis, hic tandem gravi valetudine 
suo metemus non deficientes (Pauli Epist. ad Galat. vi. 9).” His large col- 
lection of Formosan plants has been forwarded to England for pau 
