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BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Dr. Karsten, of Berlin, has been elected Professor of Vegetable de 
in the University of Vienna, vacated by the retirement from office 
Unger. 
It is our painful duty to record the death, by yellow fever, of Mr. Richard 
well known as the collector and introducer of numerous ornamental 
in June last. He had lately formed an advan us arra 
William Bull, of Chelsea, the well-known cer plant merchant, and 
started full of hope and ardour once more for the countries in which he had 
already achieved such brilliant success as a oes or. Dr. Seemann had given 
him letters to -s agent, Dr. Kratochwill, at Panama, and, together with him, 
as about to embark in a schooner of the Central American Association 
for the kki river Bayano, when the fatal disease overtook him 
Kratochwill never left him; and the British Consul, and several leading men 
of Panama, followed him to the grave 
the late competition for the Disiorship of the Museums of the Pharma- 
€ Society o -reat Britain, Mr. James Collins was the successful candidate. 
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ooded mountains of that country almost impervious to the traveller. Nor 
e the ihata, generally speaking, know the botanical or medicinal pro- 
perties of this plant, so that it remains a secret in the hands of the bonzes and 
physicians. MM. Condamine and Blanchard, two French travellers, have at 
length succeeded, after much fruitless research, in finding this tree,—having 
conquered the conscientious scruples of a worthy bonze, who seems to have 
of a foot and a half or thereabouts. The Bae vs is perlormadi in June, when ` 
its bark methodically i in slices ipe two feet long and three or four inches 
broad. e strips are made up into bundles weighing from thirty to forty 
ash-grey colour, and inwardly brown; it has a strong Merge smell, and a 
slightly bui ia taste. When chewed it reddens the saliva; it is a powerful 
s typtic ; it is administered by the physicians of the cou antry rs cases of colic, 
diarrhea » and dysentery. The dose of a decoction is generally from six to ten 
grammes in one hundred es of water boiled in one-fifth, but sometimes 
they merely put a bit of the bark into hot water, eS ae rubbing the 
ormer against the rough sides of the earthen pot used for the purpose, and 
then make the patient drink the liquid, which is then RH strong to eure 
a simple colic, 
