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in the larger genera in dispute. He held that in Pears, and Dr. D. H. Scorr. On the conclusion of lightness, with great capability to resist alternations 
Scleria, and their allies, the flower, male and this paper, Dr. H. Fiep, of Brooklyn, New York, * heat and — Although largely used for 
made 
— was . axillary ; ; that in Ryncospora it e some remarks on the — r- hment pe-making, some of them, like the finest sorts of 
xactly as in Dichromena and Psilo- of a central international bureau for zoological — — Pine-apple aoe were capable of 
— ie in Hypolytrum the flower is terminal nauky, and the annual — p inter- being woven into the finest fabrics, such as the 
exactly as in Mapania, He further maintained that national zoological records. Peña muslin of the Philippines. The lecturer gave 
Fic, 59,— BULBOPHYLLUM GRANDIFLORUM, (SEE P, 422.) 
CommeRciaL Fisres.*—The following is a a detailed account of the pl: 
id of à U- hemp. Ba se 
pan mega 3 3 . vail ts summary of the lecture. The fi fibres derived from of fibres in Manilla-hemp, age 8 
i which might obtained by studies in the internal structures of endogens were e were known — Mare 15 ng-hempr, New Zealand 
) „„ either the weight to bo: commleroially: ae: whinesrape Simek © SS: Seen araa abe nes as ene © 
u for the most part from the leaves, J s i T s. (twis 
| attributed to the Wee g.. of “terminal flower, e chief qualifications ian In reg i 0 e 
í the Government 
illustrated lantern-slides illustrating dissections ; 8 1 of a series of Cantor Lectures, delivered before the pontoon for the 
ake aa teed which -a criticism was Society of Arts on Monday evening, March 25, by Dr. D. 1760 ‘for — in e 
offered by Sir D. BnAxpis, Mr, A. B. R xX, Dr, - Morris, M. A., 0.M.G- follows: 
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