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oem so fund by Dr ourr men botany on fe ri aia ail sciences. Ir <a q to find the total "number of specs in ro aks anon 
gece in the — the country, elevated pies: one of the great, and perhaps > greatest — of hi globe, we have 
je the mw and close to the of the| conversation was this: he would refer a plant of species not found in any two adjacent ones, E eed 
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axillary spikes = owers, and | were commenced he i a APAA and active inter st bution, 
a d fine gl the perfecting of the instruments, sected and made notes of the larger p eden ve a 
oubt t require “the protection the detailed history of the discoveries share y rian d | thein, superintended Bauer’s analyses and drawings, 
y nas a imate of the locality hes of science; he bought fine instruments | and kept a small working herbarium of everything 
found resem ling in point of temperature | from ak and foreign makers, and though unac- |he collected, stowing away the larger specimens and 
uainted with optics or mechanics, his gigs aa | duplicate omer x or casks, where they were perfect] 
at ie described by Drs. Hooker and acute — and astonishing kno» wledge of m safe fro m the of insects and damp. “To 
“ Precursores ” of the Indian Flora, vegetable forms and li i + aes of everything under his 
xo Jeertal © of the Linnean Society of | so many Leapeovensaths s to manufacturers and nica | eye, as Kiise Hortus Siccus, mu uch of the perman- 
Senn No time should be lost in ob- | tha t his name has become identified with th tory no doubt 
of micr be attributed ; for u to a ver adv: vanced the ea 
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of gees with Captain Finders s was upwards | uninteresting plants ens his „observations on them had 
old; hitherto, then, we age regard | made e on n his min nd, ri 
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Bro Botanicoram Princeps, we | thing that we are aine r di d he for r 10 years (Tobe continued.) 
turn at ‘a se P : riod to tof i afterwards—but to een 
some slight account of | 
jt vd a deavour cols o e sligl in a field w wher ere all was ig a ‘= THE GARDENER’S GAMUT. 
of botany in this country. Though — aware | essential to complete success. _ Wha ta rast to Wars strumming over a fa oe = on my fiddle, 
weg of doing this in a man who should come to the door but m neigh hbour Sam. 
oat the scientific ergin indeed | r ibute their | Ni sy is one of the best of sf indeed no one 
prerai ot rendering ius — ine cries to the ror bi land na 18, ams history journals could touch him Oe Lochaber nó more” when he 
in the limited tu which we on aes ourselves, | of the day; gent when crammed with all the modern attended Bur ton Cable’s music class, quite an urchin. 
we do not think ourselves pei e justin declining aiae - of a medical education at 21, they pra on | Our gossip began, enumerating those now gone to “ the 
the attempt, there bei many salient poini ts in Brown’s distant voyages to. observe and collect, | and return to | land o the, leal ” =f with whom re be ad climbed the 
y lal ia. writi that are not only y life together, rch of botanical 
deeply interesting to every inquiring student of Nature, | finally give up the Lari of science e at the age when | rarieties, This became too mach for San, so to change 
bot instructive and worthy of all imitation. n fe lt he was bject tal Palace, and 
The first point that strikes us is the difficulty of I send you an abstract o of the day” ofa) 
arranging a Az coger. D what we may have to say, as = the present state of our kno - ledge We entered the noble inenira f a little past 1 10 A.M., 
hall accoun: tiated reader for the extent | geography and natural productions of t ie antipodes, it | just in time to hear the fiddlers. Whata glori k ous treat 
omg ot the ese cen, as to w hich Brown attai mes is is diffion alt to realise the feelings of an “accom plished, this was for both! indeed between the musie pooh the 
for the tion ayy ng for him thumping of Sam’s fat umbrella on the h 
~ onthe in ony for f great the i field of labour, or e the adv gr 2 ‘that it | kept buzzing all day. Sam foncied he felt his ears 
which many of our scientific has b been to the een ErP nada that a n of such | moving, at apai he was certain that every nerye 
tinent, in no foreign scientific circle was B 9, Brown, | in his skin w. wed " Soni higher. While in- 
dd second in deserved esteem to that of any other | should have been the gg to study a Wie which is | ages ea Saher I of course went first, a nd eve 
son. We feel that this was as it should have|the richest- an remarkable in the world |n a ee ‘Sam mutter ring to himself, 
—thongh we cannot fully explain why,—and in| for novelty of- for Pad ape and which is |“ Capital—first-rate— a hair,” and so on, 
saying we are only putting the case in moo | still the most different from that of any other part of | when at length T ~ a 
mm, Yiz, that the collected wisdom of Eur n | the globe. We reed of his color oe on first landin: gim mat tter ? P i Ma x er,” he replied, “what a master mind 
imation; bt i iate and express Brown’s claims No | x King George’s Sound, in a very short time, ave to grasp a building like this— 
imation ; she Fee cm of the indisidan be £ 500 species, of which the m Ais were not nir out and abet d look you, many said plants d 
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alin o to the full the justice z their ae a had then no place in our system, and so eto place was too big, too gb, and had oat 
ineapable r “ae equal justice to the ral families that had no recognised allies in any | faults, but let the erities come and oo ae A 
re ies, and are ‘atk sical in structure that | dictions have come fo. And, now, added Sam, 
D Toat ight 3 othe miliar | but for his sagacity and profound insight into = e laws | Whistling the were, ae getti kar of teat: at 
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eiet E in beam life was no doubt the | aS pees ig et in the history of plants, | struck “the wee short hour 
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Go panaman of fiaiatition, are all ede found in Bonar = perfectl familiar: wa kivi thelr niine ieinething in their pockets, we bolted down re 
= fi of a of his sr self- preparation for ien d | their structure, a and their affinities, and regard them as of doo staircase to get a mou 
pote rae but Brown landed with no such| What a change! It was like being t 
good for = time r not ak even for ot time, | knowl ing Geo: So i here th dà a | a paradise to a ental washing green le 
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be pent ing memory, and very careful habits famiti Bee of the same or “tied plan y spoctacin E + ing 80 pre thos ory = 
comparison, induction, and expression (the am o f f bis wb haracters p and to help | very queer, bosm rt ho red Ti lions as we 
in See ake kaa Aa e acima both |h Sutoguish between analogical resemblances in steps we 2 went taking a er a Spero’ 
Nature and fellow enS form ghey or affinities. cis eng having spent so ine 11 tock 0 se. Marg ower-bed, writing down the 
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wait would be useful. to to him, but (wh at s-of| wosks of ‘ne passage out at the Cape: of Good Hope, | name of every ag Tinted baat et 
portance), how Tittle wd ni, would only | where E tadji E h we of 1858 knew of the harmony of col 
thus find him | tation are epeated, s aces ; | how much we 0 od 
lw and accomplished tn is in many or ‘55 pate hin While in the com s. T Te dinand Bauer h The first of a series £ , which sil 
tary of the mathematical = enjoyed the rare > me a of vrofting by the ‘abouts | | to be very much alike in s ae at Geranitina, edged. 
chemical, bat with little love or taste for c me of the most skilful and enthusiastic botanical | in the centre, then a belt of Seres, for you! 
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ies, chemi h; King George’s Soun a: inders pro- 
roui physics, Whilst Enr Th Bay, also on the South coast of | heard of this sed it In See v 
Ea eaa for the classificatory branches, | Australia, and farther West, where in only three day border jane Pa 
the attention eae his friends and teachers, | Brown added 100 species to his ae ed Pree rar: i 
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