"and 
320 /—— BOTANICAL NEWS, 
memoir of the late William Gardiner, and a coloured map of the country. 
d. 
— for the herbarium, including a separate one for every species and variety 
Price to subscribers 3s. 64. ; address J. E. Robson, Hartlepool. A. 
A new Quarterly, devoted to Natural Science has appeared at Montpellier, — 
under the title * Revue des Sciences Naturelles.” Tt is edited by MM. 
Dubrueil and E. Heckel. 
Dr 
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ete. 
e are requested to state that Professor Caruel, of Pisa, is desirous of 
exchanging Tuscan plants for extra- European species. 
, Prom Dr. Balfour’s statistics of his class for 1872, we find that it con- 
sisted of 283 students; 62 lectures were given, and 11 excursions made. 
The number of students who attended the excursions was 207, and the 
number at each varied from to 127; surely far too many to allow of 
any satisfactory instructio 
e have ord the death, after a short illness, of Andreas 5. 
medal of the university for a thesis on the Danish Annelides. During 
the years 1846-48 Oersted travelled in Costa Rica, and the botanical 
us papers in 
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Grisebach, and Planchon. In 1863 was commenced “T? Amérique 
Centrale " which contains descriptions and figures of new Tropical Ameri- 
can plants. Oersted’s researches in Fungi were important, especially his 
demonstration that Restelia is buta dimorphic condition of Podisoma, 
and his investigations into the organs of reproduction in Agaricus. He - 
was appointed Professor in 1860, ; 
_ Dr. Arthur Gris, aide-naturaliste at the Museum of Natural History 
in Paris, died on 18th August, at the age of 42. He was the author - 
ortant papers in the French scientific serials on anatomico- 
i tany he 
art, has 
tanical 
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he death is also announced of Dr. Christener, of. Berne, whose excel 
lent herbarium has, we hear, been acquired by Mr. Shuttleworth ; and 5 
the Rev. G. Munford, author of a list of the plants of Western Norfo 
(Ann. Nat. Hist., 1841.) ) 
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