AND LIBRARY AT KEW. 181 
South Kensington Museum, J. Ball, F.R.S., the Lords Commissioners of 
the Admiralty (the Chilian and Fuegian collections formed by Dr. Cun- 
nin = during the voyage of H.M. S. Nassau to the Straits of Magel- 
jode) —Brisbane, C. Prentice; Lord Howe's Islands, C. Moore, 
Esq., F.L.S.; North Australia, Dr. R. Scho mburgk ; various parts, Baron 
von Mueller; New Caledonia, the late Dr. Lenormand (of Vire), and E. 
Caldwell, Esq. (of Mauritius). 
PUBLICATIONS. 
The second volume of the Flora of Tropical Africa by Prof. Oliver 
and others, has been ced under the authority of the First Commis- 
sioner of Her Majesty's 
The fourth part of the d Jomi Plantarum, a hee: devoted to the 
illustration of the new and rare plants in the Herba 
The 97th volume of the * Botanical Magazine,’ with figures of plants, 
chiefly such as have flowered at am 
The printing. has been commenced of the * Forest Flora of North- 
Western India,’ which will be ablished by Drs. Brandis and J Te 
Stewart, under the Hon A d the bere of State for India 
The Composite for Dr. Von Martiu ' «Flora pau. are being 
elaborated 7 ps J. G. Baker. 
l. Grant is preparing an account, with eirati of the plants 
SEER by "timed during his and Capt. Speke’s expedition to the Nile 
ake: 
r. Henderson has named and drawn up an account of his Yarkand 
collections, made during the mission to that capital. 
r. Ascherson, of Berlin, has named the tropical African collection, 
from Schweinfurth and others, and Mr. Melliss his St. Helena ones. 
Mr. W. P. Hiern has described the Natural Order — for a work 
to be published by the Cambridge Philosophical Socie 
M. Triana, of Bogota, has published his gi ede of Mela- 
stomacee in ne Linnean Society's Transaction 
Dr. Cunningham has been engaged, under the aetheris of the ie 
ÉL of the Admiralty, in arranging his Chilian and Fuegi 
plants of the voyage of H.M.S. Nassau, under apt. Mayne, R. 
‘The Flora of British India, which will be published under the 
minority of the Secretary of State for India, is being actively prosecute 
at the Herbarium by the Director, Prof. Lawson of Oxford, Prof. Dyer of 
the Royal Horticultural Society, Dr. Masters, Mr. Edgeworth, Mr. A. 
W. Bennett, and Mr. 
The 6th volume of the "Fors Australiensis,’ by Mr. Bentham and 
Baron von Mueller, is in progress, under the authority of the Government 
of the various Australian colonies. 
The second volume = te * Genera Plantarum, by Mr. Bentham and 
the Director, 1 is far adva : ; 
The English edition of Beales e and Maout’s * Traité de Botanique’ is 
passing through the press, under ae editorship of the Director. 
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