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Members and Associates at the entrance of their respective places of 

 meeting. It will contain a list of newly-arrived strangers, notice of 

 'the papers to be read, and fetes to be held during the day. 



" Three great dinners will take place in the large room of the Kur- 

 haus, price one gulden, on the days of the General Meetings. 



" The casino will be open to Members and Associates of the meet- 

 ing." — Literary Gazette. 



Australia. 



We learn from Hooker's ' Journal of Botany,' that Mr. James 

 Drummond has returned from a journey of eighteen months' duration, 

 which led to the discovery of several highly-interesting genera, and 

 enabled him to amass a great collection of botanical specimens. " 1 

 could have procured many more plants," he writes ; " but the natives 

 were so troublesome that I could only make excursions armed with a 

 double-barrelled gun, and in company with mounted police. Both 

 myself and my son John had several narrow escapes. At one time 

 there were 200 natives invited to the feast they intended to make of 

 our bodies after they should have killed us ; providentially they did 

 not succeed in their murderous designs." 



Cape of Good Hope. 



That enterprising naturalist, Mr. Charles Zeyher, was making pre- 

 parations for another journey in the interior of Southern Africa, a 

 country he has now been exploring for more than a quarter of a cen- 

 tury. 



The Feilding Herbarium. 



The University of Oxford has suddenly become possessed of one of 

 the finest systematically arranged herbaria in the world. The late 

 Henry Barron Feilding, Esq., of Hodday Lodge, Lancashire, and 

 more recently of Preston, has for many years devoted his energies and 

 income to the formation of a private herbarium. He originally became 

 the possessor of the Prescott collection, then one of the most exten- 

 sive in Russia, for which the British Museum and some other public 

 institutions were said to be in treaty, but which Mr. Feilding secured 

 by the prompt laying down of a sum which we have heard variously 

 staled at from £1000 to £4000. This formed the foundation of his 

 herbarium ; it contained a nearly complete and accurately-named 

 flora of the Russian dominions in Eurojjc and Asia, besides many 



