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Astronidium and Pleiochiton, two genera of Melastomaceze. 
alon; a new genus of Legnotide, to which group Crosso- 
e 
The folio Atlas, of 100 olathe, is not yet issued. A. G. 
5. Dr. Wallich, the distinguished East Indian Botanist (a Dane by 
birth) died in London, at the close of April last. A little earlier the 
venerable Professor Reinwardt died in Holland. As Gs 
6. On preserving the Balance between the Animal and Vegetable Or- 
ganisms in Sea Water; by Ropert Warincton,* (Ann. Mag. Nat. 
of these premises, that the same balance should be capable of being 
in sea water. nd ina 
of the water-snail, 
The sea water with which the experiments [ am about to detail were 
Conducted, was obtained through the medium of one of the oyster- 
boats at the Billingsgate fish-market, and was taken from the middle of 
L. 
uralist friend whom I consulted, 
Advised me to employ the Rhodosperms ; another stated that it was im- 
Possible to make the red weeds answer the purpose, as he had tried 
* Communicated by the Author, having been read at the Hull Meeting of the 
British Association. 
t Gardeners’ Botanical M. gazine and Garden Companion, Jan., 1852. 

