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at 38; by the 1st of June the gross weight had | —— - les Préles; Dissertatio de Metamor-|the water-bearing strata, These four winter months 
placed 34 Ibs. —.— this the dead weight was 3 ; Ue ber die Anatomie und den Kreislau f|are essenti pak "a =a ev 2 ME 44 
reduced to 15 v by the r — Z a stone from r Ch use such a term a comparative sense), as 4 
crown- , which was — ed. t ere to p the | — Gare, Byssus, Ruppia, Gentiana, Calam o- | Dickinson has shown ny the valuable records ke x 
— blown off before the — had c d t|grostis Ve — m, &c.), including one on the fossil by him showing the proportion of the rainfall which 
r-board. After this the — w as uy * Skan filtrates the soil and passes down to the subterranean 
of Me: minor works are scarcely kno t of | water-level to be discharged by sprin; E the surface. 
Sw vede, having appeared s as Dissertationes Academica, The tw o months of March and Octobe are those in 
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| Dead weight Gross weight. Produce: but 
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Ibs. Ibs. Ibs. cal views of vegetable phenomena; nsider 
jp 7  .- 18 854 174 bearing of his observations upon biological nae es, | is mimes t r whereas in the four winter 
» 4 poe 5 = x and on many subje cts enunciating original ideas months specified as “ non-evaporating," the mean per- 
m [rane — ld not entage infiltrated in eight years was 83.5. A wet 
my5. - 18 44 26 gres of scientific botany. Bes Besides possessing these solid October ucceeded by a wet p and December 
Bi edt e 18 45 27 acquiremen pe - applying them to his N — affords the greatest security that we shall 
a ee zi e 1 science, it must be remembered that Agardh was for bino — supply of * ig water during the 
3 18 504 32. many years the e ite of his University, the zealous bud — ve In the summer months—i.e., from 
u G rou — 50 32 friendly poma of the studies of many young to Septe — inclusive—the proportion which 
49% si botanists, a r peri riod t the President of the meet- — is very small. About 90 tons of water per 
i Ju 15, 2 ore, the balance w l Naturalis t ns, which is the 
between production and consumption. Froth that|at a very iden — age — contribute interesting average weight of rain which falls on "phe surface of 
day the store began to decrease, and if no other botanieal matter to various vus of wos MÀ filling a | England in those months; evaporation and vegetation 
result had been attained I should consider myself|position amongst the cultivato of sc Sweden 722 — and re r of the rest. If these assumptions 
well repaid in having visible evidence of tl y day , and no one doubts them, it is manifest that 
on which honey collecting ci be in excess of the} As Botanical, Economi a and — ical Prof 
voe of the community. Not that this is any dis- Agardh’ s à was necessarily turned to political 1 af “the preceding winter, but any scarcity w 
Bee-keepers of the modern school nome well | econom — d kindred s subjects, upon "whic h he has le ft creas sed, summer after summer, if the — 
that 1f honey i is to be taken it should be taken early, a quan are suecessively deficient in infiltrated supply. 
1 terial _ resources of his country. His This deduction has a very pertinent bearing on the pro- 
on the plan of most cottager: un tatistics of Sw eden „and in | sent condition of the eastern cou nties of — 
enen of a uer — E uds the — of the . the last ots of that .great work is his Chi ti 
disa ed. to fix the day appears lly and side, from Oxford to Harwich, we find the 
matter of no — —— ment, — oa. it — vary | botanically, in which - — — ts to a repris ils average 9 for 18 years of the four “non- 
with seasons, places, and the strength of the stocks, its application on under of view. As a evaporating” months to have been 63 inches :— 
here are the means by which it a be noted, Sw edish Parliament f pr year 1817, 
also as the effect of weather and other circumstances he exerted gage i the zealous of all mea- | 1841-2 
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from day to day in the progress of earing on e publie w — E o wing to his 1842-3 
tial endeavours. Shirley Hibberd, Stoke Newington. great learning Ay ex — — er eloque Tem 
and his fascin. ating m delivery, he — 1845-6 
commanded the sthention E oon uditory even when 1846-7 
THE LATE BISHOP AGARD he failed to — cvm 1847-8 
Bx the death of Bishop Agardh, on the Y January In 1816 Agardh t p ye in 1837 was con- 2 
of the present year, Sweden has lost one of her secrated 5 = — t; " ters 
illustrious sons, who throughout a long and active life and useful ta — eie exerted in pro- By hese figures it will be seen that every win s rain 
national education so effectually, 1 y^ ie 4 the — * wet pe ad of ree mi has 
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by his labours and writings in various departments of | that there are few i o can be said to hay 
literature and sci As th late — — name 5 so largely to infuse a new vigour into t| 
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— i Bot advocating by personal su superinte den hi j^ 
e vim 9 dut Imi sphere, — i secos us pet rete remarkable for the ferent ity "Y water in the enste 
leming aid t tidy talents and acqui may |t he necessity ar, , introducing modem science, and | counties. The lab ma taet were "paying for it by ar 
be interesting to give a brief sketch “of his life and | especially bot 1 bodi l, and the farme * it from a dis- 
works, ere are per + Damasin any of Agardh’s botanical views | tance into the fi elds for ‘the se of rany” at 
C. A. M — s born at Bástud,in Harland. in 1785, which have not met with universal acce eptation, and | What are we to ke" has for the ensuing autumn ? 
and in 1799 he became a student in the University EET y nep ait fill- -dyke has failed DE even hep d nds 
L here * in the fields, y though in vain fora 
— at Mathematics — * ially to Natural —.— j —— with "his projects for reform n in i derten oh "ue Wie ‘truism, ‘tat 
— — the University of 2 ithhold his admiration of his | as the days len verc springs d rengthen.“ So 
devoted himself to Botany, to Which ges su T ria iens hi — of what- ins ificant, in fact. t 
iat id ied ry early die attachment tut, fis nme de to tenes. rr in the wells throughout the eastern counties that the 
and after a visit yi E NN ONE 3 t as it was to hin - his con- ns exceeded anc 
the pupil and friend of tha! e man and tiing as clear to ore ae jt was to himeelf, hie of 
T Olaf Swat, he ardently entered tipon the — a often almost too daring or paradoxical views, and a y that. before If 
that animated him in all his ways and | this be so at the ning of May, when the sub- 
to Lu nd and was named first E. O. Botanices Demon-|works. For the love of science and the honour of|terranean veni is EE maximum height, what 
— tor, and in 1812 2 and economia. padis | Sweden he thought and wrote and laboured by word | will be the ition of the July, 
essor, deed, aan his loss is consequently felt to be a | August, ind ‘Septet mber, wher the springs are 1 3 
. Perceiving that tho ough much h ipm nt national calamity. declining, evaporation is active, vegetation is thirsty, 
— towards adding to the species of Algo i n infiltration "SET. f Eng E the of things has 
ailed th east of England, the rai in 
admirable wo: rks of Turner, Dil AA and Vaucher, tittle Home Correspondence iled in the east ng "whe ore 
cation of the order, he laboured to discover Gardeners’ Bae lent Institution. —I t think it "Es P was — ee inches and in Kent only 17 inch 
arrangemen P. of the genera that — be founded id to inform you that the Council of the Horticultural in the | whol d 1858, - on in "Lancashire was 
natural principles as derived from their internal struc- Society, with that liberality which has arked ,and in Devo inches n the same 
ture. At that time Sweden was taking the lead in the | their proceedings to this Society, has prented the | vert Der + gig. ald indeed 
study yptogamie plants, Swartz was labouring Committee the free use of their rooms for them to hold | be ‘interesting to discover how ^ the dip. of the 
upon the Ferns and Mosses, Acharius on Lichens, —— their monthly meetings. Also that the Council of tl 
on Lichens and Bat w when Agardh by addin s| Society of Arts, following e example thus set by the 
"oen Alge secured to the country of Linneus Nod Horticultural Society, has through the cag of | w 
p epartment of Cry 3 ed Chairma! ul eee 5 Lá granted t stitu 
which had ^ 8 already universally awarded to tion the use of their great roo 0 y 1 ^t through one stratum into another, the = 
their mir — a s has een to avoid the deficiencies of certain localities, such- as Boune in 
Dispositio Algarum Suecie which a enm in|inconvenience so generally felt by c e institu- | Lincolnshire, where an Artesian well is constantly dis- 
1812 was for the most part founded oa th Pi old| tions in being o obliged to hold their meetings at|gorging its many thousand gallons per minute, but it is 
Principles, but in the Synopsis Algarum He ia jæ, | taverns. Edw. R. Cutler, Secreta a problem yet unsol astern 
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water absorbed in the higher grounds of the north- 
iml to the lower districts of the south- east. We 
— ie in the Eastern Co unties of England. | an istricts derive any of thei 
gence, powers of observation, and matured j ent in — Permit me to direct attention to one or two] water supply from the higher districts of the north- 
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y in his Systema Algarum, published in 1827, he ina pret ctical and convincing m nner, and is believed | circumstances the whol 
completed his reform that t division of the by meteorological observers esee that the Mei involved in i 
Vegetable Kingdom, and- hid E s of al supply of the 8 during the summer months, 
ne April to Septem inclusive, depends vetet E 
; The above-mentioned works conta — m | wholly. upon the rainfall of t 2 months of prete lately with such 
important d es and most ex and — November, December, —À and —— which culture. It is hardly necessary 
able contributions 1 to — ne ol Dp botany, Shat these | replenishes the springs and subterr doldiion; 
1 zan inadequate idea of the vorm d Bishop water can be disch 
amount and variety of his labours or of the influence Agni, — Neorg to the XEXCE Hooker, {|the subsoil is sw 
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thor on Veetable moder ri 2 e; Mns which h (owi T€ e y Philosophen, and theolog the dme d 
Ze and Classes Plantarum he treated on Morpho- — — language), now appear to me to convey a false im: ts replenished. | It is, 
ogical and Systematic Botany. His s Organ 4 h of his character. Ineed not assure your that ing | vd 
and Biology of — was — — Germ — — T S farther 22 man T OE RONIE — prinei ne — x. 2 —— 
he eere the author of.— Essai re la — [We need hardly remark, that had it occurred to us that Dr. | if 
végétale à des — min —— (1828); E Andersson's remarks could have borne the interpretation of im- TES 
; Essai — mir in this BG.) | evaporation 
sur la développement intérieure des Plantes (1829) ; pugning the memory of aman £n 
