192 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The herbarium and instruments of the late eminent botanist Von 
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least four months, and is open to receive and execute, as far a n 
ticable, commissions to collect living or dried plants, skins and skeletous 
of birds, shells, fish, lizards, etc., or other objects of natural history. 
His address is Wellington, New Zealand. 
. A collection of carefully prepared leaf-skeletons, mounted on black- 
glazed paper, by Herr H. Lindemuth, of the Berlin Botanical Garden, 
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ready separation of the wood proper and bast elements of the vascular , 
bundles. The collection is well spoken of by Prof. Hanstem, of 
Bonn, in a notice in the * Botanische Zeitung,’ 1871, p. 381. ; 
The first number of a new monthly Journal devoted to Natural His- 
corder, will be published, under the auspices of the West Riding 
Consolidated Naturalists’ Society, on July 1st. The subscription will 
three shillings per annum, post free, and communications must 
be addressed to the editor, care of J. Wilcock, printer, Northgate, 
Wakefield. i 
We notice with pleasure the appointment of our contributor, Mr. " 
: parrain Ward, B.A., to be one of Her Majesty's Inspectors © 
chools 
The usual annual meeting of the Linnean Society was held on pr 
afternoon of May 24th, the anniversary of the birth of Linnæus. n 
Geography being carefully examined and, in parts, minutely — j 
Ë. Bentham found it necessary, as would be expected from the piar 
gence in their views of the production of species, to differ widely 
Corrigenda, p. 157,1. 13 from bottom, for ** Hellreich " read Neilreich. * 
P. 158, 1. 20 from bottom, for “17” read 5. 
