SS ee Se ee 
i 
first 
‘ iitesc yet publ 
4 pha 
years Mek brief space of 16 years. It is 
Marcu 3, 1860. ] 
THE ee CHRONICLE AND AGRICULTURAL GAZETTE 
195 
I hav e had of- it; but let othe ers “speak ou 
order that its merits and failings may be fairly "aie 
cussed and its proper Scam mui. to it. L. M. N. 
Societt cieties. 
rb. 28. =A Special General 
February 
of Arts, John Street, 
ose of electing various Candid eie 
the Lair. 
RTIOULTURAL 
eee ot oe 
28, at the 
Adelphi, he the. purpose 
who had been Lg soe for 
honour to our colonies rigs they help to defray 
ns like thes 
small 
the cost of gt bea 
T 
of Fungi, 
us an ‘plates exclusively _ of 
the Tasmanian alps, in rapidly diminishing numbers it 
is true, but in vigorons development throughout. They 
abou nd on the „Alps and n anrai peak on to the 
d nalaya thence they extend along the 
ts, that is to say 
ens, ending at 
- — concludes the y ystematical portion 
m to which 
ther may perhaps "Ye se i 
peed or "be the most importan nt 
Bo tanical Geography which s science has yet produ 
Pa 
a Gentlemen were balloted “for 
T.P: Beall, 
Earlof Ducie, m4 
T. Basing | 
ing eS vi 
t viz. 
ay oe ; Miss E ti Sir C. y 
Sir  Bart.; Lad Bagley, A. Bird, Esq. 3 
S wkr ie at B Mrs, S. Cave, R. Cocks, 
n ; Mrs CE H 
d, 
j WE: Or ro a ; 
my px ands 
ry ‘Kingsdown, H. Lewis, 
F. Mackenzi zie, 
4 
r distribution i P are: 
on 
M. | numbers, distribution, and affinity ; on 
f its tropical an 
Piha f 
plate 200, which termy- | } 
an 
ons and correc- 
i t those of the peninsulas of India 
reak of Ceylon ‘od the hyn hy ee ago (Jaya 
after a of 30°, they appear on 
‘Tasmania. 
pl henomena of variation in the Vegetable Kingdom, of 
a, and of distribution in time. From 
this the 
Flora of A 
pe 
5 
e 
ic} 
5 
American Mala yan, and family 
| ing the idea that the 
e | hav e had common engin with comparatively m 
on the contrary. a Kurpa 
oA FoR atin 
and. 
lly distinet,. 
a 
ustralian vegetation , its 
ean featnres, 
ec 
nesian features o 
. | plants, its South African and, Eur its 
and s “united. by those of harjana z z countries, 
f Hing rpe are a gw with the 
fossil F. 
its naturalised P lants, its neee Ln and “imliy 
the 
latter in the sout hemisphere. stance, I 
1 the Indian ansi in ye re a palpi, Bs 
concludes with a maste nly narrative of t 
Aft nt 
inent 
f the appearance of such a 
t bjec a eminent a naturalist is 
s would be held on Tuesday, 
ilson, Esq. a sq. 
airman rane that the a Meeting for | 
, | geo 
i 
th 
the ‘election of Fellow 
h 27. 
ENTOMOLOGICAL : Jan. 23,—H, T. Stainton, Esq. 
V.P., in the chair. At this, the L tema meet- | 
ing, ‘the coun 
cil and pliicers for 
uglas, 
the e wn be od year | ex: 
=e > appointed, J WwW. sc ing 
been 
un: pa ene to in ah oe 
ent jentifie readers to examine its 
pages for themselves, * on renders any particular ac- 
sakni of it in this place unnecessary. e shall there- 
pipaa fas extracts principally to the author’ s 
oit, botanieny, as the Scandinavian, potted 
the Antarctic; and that to whatever lengths ‘the iay 
b 
many bon 
Flo oras, the ‘An an 
may a 
= rentă respec mg the Konji Flora of Austra 
loge ag gin of its anys p ATS 
nbabs en 
great vege dation, “which any crib have cover 
a southern area as the w does a 
The csailifero rocks nA Australia do not throw 
much ht upon pm antiquity of its existing Flora, | 2 
| because of the ene which. if s seem 
aie between t he palaozoi c and tertiary £ strata of t that 
ppd the office has expired, it tie part ‘of the 
constitution of this Society 
deve 
no person shall retain 
the e Presidentship_ for more than = yar successively. | any 
Ma th 
ot that ne pEr penea in Australia is argh 
an e presents su 
such Austra- l 
“tho 
7 a impo 
an a 
Entomology and the state of the | Society, dwelling at 
considerable „length on the great losses which it has 
of Mr. Spence (the Cada 
ence wa 
of Mr. Kirby) and Dr. Horsfield. Mr. Sp 
hyk ia 
t 10 years old he imbibed a taste 
bsequently in 1805 for entomology ; 
y of Mr: irby poat Bale a 
mced the investiga- 
Bi feoptera to whi 
“ 80 far from falling into the errors usual 
rmined his species with the 
eal of the mo 
ralist.” ran ac uaintance of thr. ft 
oa these two kindred spirits ths pablicg: 
tion of the 
attached, 
with beginners, he determ 
judgmen nt and precision 
ag nae an the early part of his life reside! a | to 
ch he ad ji Patail | 
p y: th 
P. 
st experienced | ef 
| order PUERA of t noth 
Worthen oy aiba fone tae ulti mae ae hi a 
must dep end o n tha t power of appr Hate | in _the- 
is far 
ndia, and pr A "of south-east Afri xe pad of Meera: ; 
bei on the lee hand the Araucaria of the English 
ite, and other fossils alluded to at p. xxi., would seem 
e paa to ee Mr. J nag observation. 
| “Many of the tertiary fossil plante of Australia 
fitrdslve Reisen wi eed establishes itself i in our already 
full 1y p re 
of which porer no qpuceptiop has tat Pane 
which has 
ould seem to be yery e closely “allied ¢ 
| these inclu de he Cas’ ones of Hades Jalan, 
e Ban ari 
Banksia cones of Victoria coe as identical wit 
of B. ericifolia, tho ied under many feet of 
ose t nee 
rap). The leaves of va calc: me on the 
tion of an Introdu ction to Pom to be 
achat gy e written i in 
different aaa warmer ‘peri 
“From the above it would appear t extinct | 
Flora of Australia 
wah bad N diferent “ta that | 
. Jukes 
such expellont results as have rarely been obtained by 
scientific publication ms; the amount of labour in 
ed 
collecting and arranging it: rials may be jud; 
from the fact that it was not till 1815, seven years | 
after e kap of k book had been settled, that i 
yo 
appe gg, 
In 1847 ee: 
elected President ae the oe 
died age ge ili, wr i 
ef and lai 
ndia 
pane 
succeeded in water cal the 
eae of bi SPEIER an Sou 
- pY ears 1828 a: a 
es k year 1857 
É Cage of the Bepilipnes Ga Sphin ges 
useum,” a sec rose me Mae now 
ald died at the age 
1 by Mr. Stainton of the pro- 
isting. , and, fo 
menhs that yey conttnel as as ary fan a ph NN the 
an ta 
Flora of 
n Me pret g Est» 
of south- eastern Avatralins 
groups in the western and n 
| continent. 
the continents — the P; 
er witl iary 
rthern ade - the 
ce as Aah the condition of all | 
ìs am 
fis 
appear however to belong to a| scarce 
turalist ven a name in the lan- 
guage of by brea however, we see the 
‘| forms of plan i 
dying out in smal e 
sation has introduced in man a ne 
old 
u 
of the 
ator 
very Togog nuisances, » 
said Te be one, from the Cape of 
he other vı Agee near 
eat Dr. Hooker 
we must bring 
iiih) Ah Bedi 
|a Gorteria, or Shati is sa 
Good Hope, is destroying 
Melbourne. Upon this Mopsas ek 
ayer the e following remarks, with whi 
possible to per eg on en earlie condition of t 
, | another, 
tity with w 
Biot ecm 
“« There e many interesting subjects of i 
ce with a Bil rary of one 
uch as ing 
f 
re introdu ced and ra themseives, “ind 
ver ai tracts 
p 
he state of the S Society wai 
4 ory sowing a considerable balance in the | 
th: 
Notices of Books. 
a. By J. Dalton Hooker, M.D, | 
4to. Reeve. 
a, 2 yhich we kn 0 have fice form ail ia 
apparently identical with eae comer finding a suitable TAn ‘a soil for its future 
i e of the commonest trees in increas i there may be more in ae it ti or 
ere lis 
e tly qu V 
ch of cow patel in on Gite new 
mainly 
tion oe OF the Old World, I 
ne 
- Hooker i “ty grew the ant 
9 had the Flora tig t tarctic fea in rk 
ta if I may so ng a eo gid from 
tation a y ia; ea 3 pi the whole 
that f the terrestrial here which 
fet af ti ae 9 the first 
plates, 
Sporn genera, 
ponai, jan peri EEEF and Iceland to the tops of 
r We are glad to see it advertised to be sold separately. 
bat then 
A a Australia 
eh than England i j and 
are be 
j edk erei ies give! a 
as For o EA 
sider that the three elements of (1) abund 
tion of from Europe i i 
and BO pon erie purposes, and scanty 
an seed produce to England; (2) bi 
t 
