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ment, — rapidity of thought and action. Neither Mr. Dennes, nor any 

 one of the four successively appointed Curators, has possessed all 

 three qualifications ; while a majority of the five have only brought 

 one of these qualifications to a task which required all of them. I 

 have remarked that a competent Curator is the chief desideratum : it 

 is almost the only want in the Society now ; for all the other requi- 

 sites appear to be attained, or to be within reach of attainment. But 

 1 still see that the single want is greatly disarranging, and I fear that 

 it must shortly arrest, the whole machinery and action of the Society. 



Hewett C. Watson. 



Thames Ditton, Surrey, Feb. 1, 1850. 



Contents of ' Hooker's Journal of Botany,' Nos. 1 — 14 ; for 1849-50. 



Referring to the slight mention of the above periodical, under its 

 change of name and price, in former Nos. of the ' Phytologist ' (Phy- 

 tol. iii. 452 and 776), we proceed now to give the list of ' Contents' 

 of the back numbers, preliminary to a monthly continuation of the same. 



Number 1. 



Extracts from the private Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker, written dur- 

 ing a Botanical Mission to India. 



Notes and Observations on the Botany, Weather, &c, of the 

 United States, made during a tour in that country in 1846 and 1847. 

 By Wm. Arnold Bromfield, M.D. 



Botanical Information. Notices of Books. 



Number 2. 

 On the Awns of Nepaul Barley. By the Rev. J. S. Henslow. 

 Extracts from the Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker. Continued from 

 the former No. 



Botanical Information. Notices of Books. 



Number 3. 

 On the genus Triguera of Cavanilles. By John Miers, Esq. 

 Dr. Thomas Thomson's Scientific Mission to Thibet. 

 Extracts from the Letters of Dr. J. D. Hooker. Continued. 

 Botanical Information. 



