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founder of the Association), in which he criticizes the views of Dr. Hanstein, 
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lated froin this Journal, among them fe of Mr. Collins on Caoutchouc, were 
aaa r and discussed by the 
Lindsay has published * oaiae to New Zealand Botany ' 
(W iliam: a Norgate), 4to, with four coloured plates, which contains a series 
of papers on the plants of New Zealand, abstracts of some of which we have 
had the privilege of placing before our readers. 
The successful introduction of Opuntia Rafinesquiana, Engelm., now sold 
of other Cactec in the open air. It cannot be too often repeated that many 
Cactee stand a great deal of.cold,—all Mamillarie and Cerei with white 
spines and hair grow at high elevations, and are covered with snow and ie 
during several months of the year 6, Dr a recorded (Otto and 
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tudes (Cereus Depa and Opuntia cylindrica), dhüving that they stood a severe 
winter without injury 
The author of * The Darwinian Theory of the Origin of Species examined by 
a Graduate of the University of Cambridge ' has, in a separate pamphlet, added 
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extracts. 'The author, whoever he may be, holds that Mr. Darwin has under- 
taken to explain the origin of species by an hypothesis viget is peculiarly (?) 
his own, and if this part of Mr. Darwin's theory is disproved, the whole is 
confuted ; and he arrives at the conclusion that on the a question of the 
origin of species, i. e. the beginning of things, “ we have learned nothing at d 
from the various eamjectares and theories of the transmutationists, and, leas 
of e I Mr. Darwin’s.’ 
asters sends us a very acceptable reprint of his able paper *On the 
Meus of the Colialy neds eous genus Coc. sitar s pin 4ppeses, 
with illustrations, in the eurrent volume of Gut Gardeners ' Chronicle. 
rom Dr. Engelmann, of St. Louis, we have a reprint of his * Revision of 
the North-American Species of the Genus Juncus,’ to which favourable allusion 
is made in Dr. Buchenau’s paper in the last number of this Journ 
Mr. John Gilbert Baker has successfully completed the Bynápen of all 
known Ferns? (Robert Hardwieke), 8vo, of the late Sir W. J. Hooker, of which 
only a few sheets had passed through the press when that venerable botanist 
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the anniversary meeting of the Linnean Society, Mr. George Bentham 
was ce alie President; Mr. Saunders, Treasurer; and wm rs. B and 
urrey, Secretaries. The President delivered an excellent address, reviewing 
the state of biological science, and Mr. Busk read obituary ace of Fellows 
who died during the last yea 
Prof. Geppert, of Breslau, js discovered an _—_ ae PA in diamonds 
which bears some resemblance to Palmogloëa m , Küt 
