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pages extends from Ranunculacee to Lepidinea, the sixth tribe of the Cruci- 
ftre. It is to be desired that the printing and issue of a reference book like 
this, which starts a year at least in arrear, should be expedited as much as 
possible. 
The tablet to the memory of Sir Joseph Banks, which the good feeling of 
Dr. J. E. Gray prompted him to erect in the church at Heston, near Hounslow 
bears the following inscription :— 
** Tn this church is buried 
Tun Rieut Hon. Sir Joser Banks, Banr., C.B., 
President of the initis Society 
from 1778 to 1 
He died at eut Grove, on y ou o June, 1820, 
ed seventy-seven years 
dba is wd a Bio singular, says the ‘Gardeners’ Chronicle,’ that no previous 
have existed in the church of the parish in which Sir Joseph's 
property was situated, and in which he was interred. 
to announce the death of our esteemed contributor Nathaniel 
Bagshaw dcin F.R.S., F.L.S., which took place on the 4th of June, at St. 
nard’s. Mr. Ward was ie son of Stephen Smith Ward, a medical prac- 
titioner in the east end of London, and was born in 1791. Early exhibiting 
a taste for natural history and foreign travel, his father gratified it by sending 
him, when only thirteen years of age, to Jamaica, where the splendid gren. 
scenery and the animal and Teei productions made an impression on his 
mind which was never to be effaced. On his return to London he devoted him- 
self to the medical career, and soon obtained a considerable practice. Botany 
was always one of Mr. Ward’s favourite studies, and his suburban house was al- 
ways well stocked with plants of all sorts. The disappointments which he ex- 
perienced in their cultivation in the smoky atmosphere of London, led to the 
invention of those closed glazed cases which bear his name, and by means of 
which our gardens have been considerably enriched, and the most distant parts 
of the globe stocked with more useful plants within the last thirty years than 
they had been since a more intimate intercourse began to prevail amongst na- 
tions. This invention was first made known in 1836 in the ‘Companion of 
the Botanical Magazine,’ and fuller details of it were given in Mr. Ward’s 
work * On the Growth of Plants in Closed Glazed Cases.’ Mr. Ward gave fre- 
quent soirées, at which the microscope and its revelations were the promi- 
nent features, and out of these sprang the Microscopical Society. Through 
the greater part of his life Mr. Ward was associated with the Apothecaries’ So- 
ciety of London, first in connection with their gardens at Chelsea, then as ex- . 
aminer for the prizes in botany, then as master, and ultimate ly as treasure: 
e died in his seventy-seventh year, much regretted by a large number of 
Ks A. Walker Arnott, Regius Professor of Botany in the University 
Glasgow, died on the 17th of June. He was a native of Edenshead, on 
the borders of Fife and Kinross. He was educated at the High School and 
