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cultivating this cotton. There are also a few plants, raised from American 

 green cotton seed, now in full bearing. They promise to be a valuable variety, 

 as, notwithstanding the unfavourableness of the season, the produce of each 

 plant is great, the pods very large, with but few seeds, and the staple appa- 

 rently excellent : specimens of both this and the Bourbon are now exhibited. 

 Seeds of two varieties of tobacco ; the Virginia and Cabul, sentby Mr. Fischer, 

 have been shown, and are progressing ; a third, called the Shadoway tobacco, 

 which grows to the height of 7 ft. and 8 ft., was received a few days ago from 

 Dr. Wight, having been forwarded to him from Calcutta : they have also been 

 sown. Dr. Wight was also kind enough to send some seeds of the i?heum 

 EmocU, or Turkey rluibarb, all of which seeds have proved good. These plants, 

 if they succeed uldmately, of which there is little doubt, will be a valuable 

 acquisition. Dr. Wight also sent some seeds of the prango, used as hay in 

 Cashmere : they liave not yet vegetated, although, on taking up some of the 

 seeds, they appeai'ed to be fresh." (^Madras Netv Times, June 17. 1837.) 



AUSTRALIA. 



T^e late Mr. Cunningham. — A handsome plain tablet has been erected in 

 St. Andrew's Scots church to the memory of Mr. Richard Cunningham, 

 government botanist of New South Wales, who perished in the second ex- 

 pedition of Major Mitchell into the interior. Mr. Cunningham's zeal in pur- 

 suit of botanical information was unbounded ; and, unquestionably, led to the 

 fatal termination of his valuable life. The dangers of losing oneself in the 

 bush of this country are two well known to be particularised ; but all these 

 were forgotten in the ardent desire to investigate the botanical treasures of 

 the colony. Mr. Cunningham was universally esteemed, and his fate was 

 universally deplored ; while the unwearied exertions to recover him evinced 

 the high esteem in which he was held by his surviving fellow-travellers. Had 

 his life been spared, he would have been instrumental in diffusing a knowledge 

 of the productions of this country amongst the learned men of Europe. The 

 only consolation that the colonists enjoy is, that his highly gifted brother has 

 succeeded to this situation held by him, whose talents and perseverance have 

 already added much to our knowledge of the interior, and who, it is to be 

 hoped, will devote some of his time to the same object. 



The tablet erected to Mr. Cunningham's memory is of beautiful white 

 marble, exquisitely polished ; and the inscription is tastefully disposed, and 

 admirably proportioned. It was executed in the statuary yard of Sir Francis 

 Chantry, under the direction of Allan Cunningham, the celebrated poet, 

 and principal manager for that distinguished artist. 



Inscription. — "Richard Cunningham, Government Botanist of this 

 Colony, attached to an Explorative Expedition into the Interior, under the 

 command of Major Mitchell, Surveyor-General, wandered, in his enthusiasm 

 for Botanical investigation, from his companions ; and, losing himself in the 

 desert country on the Bogan River, fell into the hands of the native tribes, by 

 whom he was unfortunately killed, about the 2bth of April, 1835, in the Forty- 

 second Year of his Age. This Tablet is erected as a lasting and affectionate 

 tribute to his memory, by Allan, his ordy Brother." (Sydney Herald, April 3. 

 1837.) 



Art. III. Domestic Notices. 



ENGLAND. 



Baron H'ugeVs new Australian Plants. — A young gardener from Baron 

 Hiigel was in England the first three weeks of October, with fifty new species 

 of plants for sale or for exchange. A hst of these plants is below. 



In the following list, f signifies new genera ; ||, new species ; *, species 

 which have not before been sent to Europe in a living state; K. G. S., colony 

 of King George's Sound ; N. I., Norfolk Island ; N. S. W., New South 



