60 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Lecturer on Botany, St. Mary’s Hospital; and W. T. Thiselton Dyer, B.A., 
now in the course of preparation, and will be published by Mr Hardwicke. 
* Our Mountain enge how their Resources may be turned to account, 
and India converted into a Garden and Grain-store of the World; is the title 
of a pamphlet of vr sieh ages, accompanied by diagrams and plans, pub- 
lished at Madras, by the Superintendent of the Government Botanical Gardens 
inchon ion o i j 
die 
and Chi a Plantations at Ootacamund, in t ilgherry Hill 
Graham M*Ivo c bodies an original idea for irrigating land, of whi 
one of our greatest engineers, Mr. J. Scott Russell, speaks in the highest 
terms. The principal points of his new method are extraordin economy, 
the highest degree o siete np and a dts of safety when executed whie 
uman labour would scarcely be made to possess by "pur egree of care, the 
great rapidity of execution, — y of being extended to i. aai size, and 
special adaptation to the speedy introduction of works of i wiley ation in India. 
In ‘ El Federalista,’ a peed an newspaper of th e 23rd of October, we find 
o 
re a 
ment of which we previously announced). Amongst the new publications pre- 
sented were (reatum; the ‘Botanical Magazine, and ‘The Journal o 
Botany.’ Mr. Ernst read a paper on Vegetable Ivory, which, it appears, also 
eed is prerii in Venezuela, about Maracaibo, etc., but it would be 
ndla 
desira what species it is, as M. We us who has, with good 
reason, ae a Phytelep has to the true Palms, is inclined to retain several 
species of "e genus. des article a r. N. Wilson on on Jai n: of 
maica (Journ. of Bot. 1867, p. 276), was also read and discussed, and Ces- 
Ja p.2 
sees opua and Behmeria nivea, strongly recommended for iari in 
Mr uela. 
TWO. Steere go Lund, forwards his ‘ Bidrag till den cenas dd ska 
Vesta nens H ' (Con ntributions towards a Hist tory of the Scandinavian 
A ation), which 4 et of the fossil and existing floras of the, Bandiana 
peninsula. 
Deeds SOCIETY or EDINBURGH. —Thursday, Vovember 14th, 1867.— 
Isaac Anders rson- -Henry, Esq., President, in the chair. The President ‘delivered 
an address li crossing lants ; 
ag yen the loss to the Society y gn sah = Professor Goodsir 
— V. p. 123), and v ey raa Bryson ntleman eminent he 
c profession which h long and so ides n follow ved in this "- 
wirds no less eminent in this. Soci ciety for the shapes harp ich 
in its proceedings, The fo etre communications were 
1. Observations on New Zealand Plants. By Dr. Tilk Lindiny. In thi 
paper, the a refers exclusively t the flowering plants of Otago Spici 
most p ustrati 
l from t 
characters of the species, in re niim. more partieularly, to the limitation or 
iius of species. He also gives notes regarding their geographical dis- 
tribution and wi gy: applications, and their Maori and settler mes. 
2. r from Dr. rt O. Cunningham, H.M B pa Rio de 5 sid 
to Professor Balfour 
* H.M.S. Nassau, Rio de Janeiro, 
“ October Ath, 1867. 
* My dear Sir,—We left England about the middle of last September, on 
our voyage ii the sies of rubi ar ime on our way Madeira, St. Vincent 
aneiro, i 
uence of our being p in quarantine for five days out of the week 
