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Soc.’ Quoting from a letter of Dr. Carrington's, he writes : “Dr. Gray 
says that a friend of his named Bennett, a most promising young 
botanist who died early, undertook the Hepatiez in Gray’s * Nat. Ae!” 
Dr. J. E. Gray has distinctly claimed the authorship of the ‘ systematic”? 
portion of S. F. Gray’s “ Natural Arrangement ” in the Ann. and Mag. 
of Nat. Hist. for 1861 (p. 405), and his statement is quoted by Mr. 
Carruthers, in a paper on the nomenclature of the British Hepaticze in this 
Journal (vol. iii., p. 297). Dr. Gray acknowledges the help which he 
received from others, hut it cannot be correct to quote any authority but 
“Gray” for the names given in the book. The * prom l 
botanist who died young,” must have been E. T, Bennett, at one time 
secretary to the Zoological Society, and brother to J. J. Bennett, who 
lately resigned the Keepership of Botany in the British Museum. 
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r. M. T. Masters has been elected a Corresponding Member of the 
Royal Society of Liége. 
Professor Crépin has been appointed Conservator of the Roy 
Museum of Natural History, with special care of the section of 
Palæontolo 
_The 42nd meeting of the British Association will be held at Brighton 
in the week August 14th— 21st. 
The death is aunounced, at Grazeley Lodge, near Reading, of Robert 
Wight, M.D., F.R.S., on May 26 Dr. Wi 
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i i a years of age, 
and had spent much of his life in India, to the flora of which he devoted 
himself. He went out to Madras i 
, but is remarkable for the great and uni- 
C ccuracy and sagacity displayed by its author. The Illustra- 
tions of Indian Botany was 38 and terminated in 
f g 2 coloured plates, whilst the * [cones Plantarum 
Indie Orientalis" has uncoloured plates, 2101 in number ight' 
untiring energy in 
Works, of which the * Spicilegium Neil 
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India in 1853, and shortly befi ^ 
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aturalization of cotton in India, and 
antations at Coimbator, Madras 
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epatie disease. He wasa nati 
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1 nd became Curator of the Garden there the next 
resigned the appointment in 1853 
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