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paper, &c, by a lecture delivered before the Society of Arts in 



1854. This lecture was afterwards expanded into a valuable 

 work 'On the Fibrous Plants of India,' which was published in 



1855. In the Preface to this work he announced that he was 

 employed in a general work on ' The Commercial Products of In- 

 dia,' which, we believe, has not yet appeared. Dr. Boyle was a 

 Member of the British Association for the Advancement of Sci- 

 ence, at whose meetings he often read papers, two of which 

 deserve especial mention, one ' On the Cultivation of Cotton,' and 

 another ' On the Cultivation of Tea in the East Indies.' He took 

 an active interest in the last subject, and his efforts have been at- 

 tended with complete success, as tea, rivalling that from China, 

 is now produced in abundance in the Himalaya. For a short 

 time he held the office of Secretary to the British Association for the 

 Advancement of Science. He took an active interest in the de- 

 velopement of the plan of the Great exhibition of 1851, and the 

 success which attended the exhibition of the Department of In- 

 dian Products was due, in a great measure, to his efforts. He 

 was a Fellow of the Royal Linnean and Geological Societies, and 

 at the time of his death held an appointment in connexion with 

 the East India Campany in London. — Athaneum. 



Canadian Institute. — We see by the Toronto papers that a 

 costly and very beautiful service of plate has been procured to be 

 presented to Dr. Daniel Wilson, who has gratuitously edited the 

 Canadian Journal for the past two years. The cost was $480. 

 From the report of the Institute it appears that the journal is now 

 sent to the scientific societies of Paris, Copenhagen, Stockholm, 

 «fec , and that several articles that have appeared in its pages have 

 been translated and reprinted in some of the leading scientific 

 journals of Europe. It is gratifying to mark the progress of Can- 

 ada in science and literature. — Athaneum. 



The University of St. Andrew has conferred its degree of LL.D. 

 on Mr. James Scott Bowerbank. This is a graceful and well- 

 earned compliment. As the founder of the Palseontographical 

 Society, and a museum of unique fossil specimens, and a laborious 

 investigator in many departments of Natural History and Geology, 

 every one will recognise Mr. Bowerbank's claim for such an hon- 

 our, and the judgment displayed by the University that has con- 

 ferred it. — Athaneum 



