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Society, both horticultural and botanical, by attending the meetings: 
exhibitions and reporting on all objects of merit, answering scien 
quiries made by the Fellows, editing the publications of the Society, 
of the library, reporting results of experiments at Chiswick, and na 
plants. We think the Society has made a very good choice. —  — 
he ‘Academy’ informs us that Dr. Schweinfurth, the botani 
_ From statisties relating to the examinations in science at the Uni 
of London, it appears that at the Preliminary Examination for by 
of M.B. in the year 1870, 98 candidates presented themselves; Of 
e 
diis single subject. At the first 
mination for the degree of B.Sc., in the same year, out of 
their studies ; and until science is systematically included 1n we : 
tion, they must acquire their knowledge at ical school t or d 
that elementary botany of a kind necessary to satisfy the wu 
subject singularly difficult of acquirement. | 
t the late Annual Meeting of the Cheshire Farmers’ Supply 
tion, held at Crewe, Mr. Robert Holland, of Mobberley, was ®PF 
consulting botanist. T 
: ie death of Dr. A. Spring, in his fifty-ninth year, 
. 8t Liége, is announced. He was Professor of Physiology 
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a determination of these. The Leguminous genus Chesney@ 
by Lindley on one of the plants discovered Íy e late traveller. 
