238 Miscellaneous. 
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Belgium, United States of America*, 
Bremen, via, Belgium, 5 1.4.6 ef 
France, Prussia ~ via Holland, Bee gy 
Holland, {si Hamburg. 
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to the colonies, the rates for letters, prices current, &c., to the co- 
lonies and foreign parts in detail by every route, and numerous other 
particulars as to the despatch and arrivals of mails, &c. &c., will be 
found in the ‘ Post-Office Official Monthly Director,’ corrected and 
published on the lst of every month by Letts, Son and Steer, 
8 Cornhill, price 1s. per single copy, or 8s. per annum. 
THE TUI, OR PARSON-BIRD. Sp 
The ‘Dido,’ Capt. Maxwell, from Auckland, New Zealand, has 
brought home a few valuable curiosities for naturalists, the chief of 
which is a small black bird, about the size of the English blackbird, 
called the Tui (the parson-bird of Captain Cook), believed to be the 
first of the species ever brought to England alive. Many previous 
attempts have been made to bring this bird to England, but al 
hitherto have failed.—From the Times. neha 
OBITUARY.—-Mx. Epwa sp Fonsren, #8 
We have to record the decease of our highly esteemed friend 
Edward Forster, Esq., F.R.S., the Treasurer and a Vice-President of 
the Linnean Society, of which Society also he was one of the oldest 
Fellows. Mr. Forster died on Wednesday, February the 21st, after 
a severe attack of cholera of less than two days’ continuance, having 
previously enjoyed his usual and equable good health up to his 84th 
ear. His strong attachment to his favourite botanical pursuits, 
and his zeal for the prosperity of the Linnean Society, of whose 
eminent founder Sir J. E. Smith he had been an intimate and 
warmly attached friend, require an ampler record than can now be 
given of one who in every relation of life was truly estimable : 
Quem licet in sera rapuerunt fata senecta, 
Et vite saturum sopiit alta quies, 
Nos tamen hunc, velut immaturo funere raptum, 
Flemus, et effusis diffluimus lacrymis. 
Vixisti bene ac beate! 
6 sida 2» .wbaol valente 
Semper corpore, mente sana, amicis 
Jucundus, pietate singulari. 
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In charging works of this description, when more than one copy is under 
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