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paper on the classification and geographical distribution of the Composite, 
on which great Order he has been for some | 
volume of the ‘Genera Plantarum.’ Mr. Bentham has also commenced 
another (the sixth) volume of the * Flora Australiensis.’ 
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Normale’ can be obtained from Dr. Schultz at the price of 3 frances 
(2s. 6d.). His address is Weissenburg, Elsass. 
Professor Thiselton Dyer has resigned the chair of botany in the Royal 
College of Science at Dublin. We understand that there are several 
candidates for the appointment in the field. 
ur American fellow-botanists are at present much annoyed at the 
new commiss ) n, 
joined in a protest against the action of the commissioner, and the cor- 
ky Gap which has passed upon the subject is given in the * American 
Naturalist ’ for January, 1872, and is now reprinted in a separate pam- 
phlet. For dismissing Dr. Parry without an previous notice, in a letter 
which may well stand as a model of epistolary curtness 
that these are * practically unimportant” to farmers and gardeners. 
Reading this in the light of the rest of the commissioner’s letters, and 
the extracts which are given in the pamphlet from his reports, all here 
will, we think, incline to hold the opinion that Dr. Parry has been hardly 
` treated, and that the course followed, to use the words of Dr. Gray, “ does 
not seem caleulated to win the confidence of scientific men in the eu 
administration” of a very important department of the public service 
the United States, m ; 
... M. Millardet, who, in consequence of recent events, had resigned. hs 
appointment at Strasburg, has been appointed professor of the Académie 
des Sciences at Nan 
pace will not permit us to do more than put on record the death, at 
Berlin, of Dr. J. T. C. Ratzeburg, on Oct. 24th, 1871, at the age of 10; 
and of Siegfried Reissek, at Vienna, on Nov, 9th. Obituaries of both 
appear in the * Botanische Zeitung,’ 
chultz is about to commence a new series of his * Herbarium 
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