272 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
with the Cryptogamous.” Only two hundred and fifty copies ini been 
— botanists are advised to apply at once to Messrs. Williams and Nor- 
gate, 14, 4, Henrietta ta Street, Covent Garden, London, W.C., or Robert Hard- 
sies 192, Pi puce The price is £1. 
Prof. Unger, in a paper communicated to the Imperial Academy of Sciences 
days; with freshwater shells, fishes, remains of insects, and so forth, and a 
m of organic bodie which, for a most part, are represented without 
alteration in Egypt a at the present t Besides two sorts of grain—wheat 
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probability, been cultivated as an article of food, as well as for spinning. The 
weeds are re of the familiar kinds : wild Radish = Raphanistrum), Corn 
j Want rt (Euphorbia helioscopia), 
Nettle] dd foot ( CÀ li Pa Hare’s-ear (Bupleurum 
aristatum), and the common Vetch (Vicia sabe. The relics of manufacturing 
dotus. 
The last issue of Bennett’s ‘ oe Portraits of Men of Eminence’ 
contains portraits of Mr. Charles Darwin and Dr. Berthold Seemann, accom- 
. Cutter, of 52, Haider Street, W.C., sends us the following melan- 
choly news :—At p. 32 of the first volume of this Journal, there is a notice of 
he departure, for Old ened and the paneer of W. Gran oe ži rmerly 
in the Austra whi 
capacity he davor un Mike new plants, Mii in theViti po New Hebrides 
ps. His friends will now learn, with the deepest sorrow, that I have just 
been informed bya pci PRIN that Mr. Milne has suseumbed to the 
Having been his London agent for more than three years, I have had perhaps 
a better opportunity than many others to judge of the result of his labours, and 
I wish to bear my humble testimony to his indefatigable zeal in collecting and 
forwarding specim imens. Besides botanical collections, he sent, from time to 
time, insects, shells, reptiles, etc., many of which have proved new to science, 
and claims for his name a respectful consideration as one of the explorers of 
tropical Africa.” 
