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of care and taste in the present edition,” the editor earnestly begs 
them to look in the book for themselves, and throws himself upon 
their mercy.— F. H. Know. ton, Washington, D. C. 
NEWS AND NOTES. 
AT ITs LAST anniversary meeting the Royal Society awarded the 
Darwin Medal to Sir Joseph Hooker. 
G. von LAGERHEIM has resigned his position in Quito, Ecuador, ' 
and gone to Tromsé, Norway, which is his present address. 
‘AS WE GO to press word has been received of the death of Mr. I. C. 
Martindale, of Camden, N. J. His botanical specimens are known in 
many collections, and his own herbarium is one of the largest private 
collections in this country, and was always in most exemplary order. 
Mr. FRANCIS Darwin, son of the great naturalist, and the joint 
author of The Power of Movement in Plants, at present Reader in 
Botany at Cambridge, has, on the nomination of Professor Babington, 
been appointed Deputy Professor for the current academical year.— 
Gard. Chron. 
MONTHLY JOURNAL of botany is promised to make its ap- 
pearance this month. It will be under the direction of members of 
the editorial charge of Mr. Willis L. Jepson. Its name is to be 
Erythea, and its price $1.50. 
THE SIMULTANEOUS publication in the GazeTTE and the American 
Naturalist of Dr. G. W. Martin’s aper on the development of the 
hs Solidago was entirely unexpected 
by the editors of either journal. The author sent a copy to each with- 
Out notice of the duplication, and by accident the article appeared in 
the same issues of both magazines. 
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