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should have thought that he had just cause of complaint, though this 
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conditions there should be any serious difficulty in discharging the 
respective duties of the First Commissioner and of the Director of the 
ardens in a manner satisfactory to both, whoever may be the oceupan 
of those offices, maintaining the proper authority of the First Commis- 
vni € due regard to the position and character of the Director of 
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am ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 
Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science  (July).- —E. O'Meara, 
* Peculiar forms of Navicula from the Sulu Archipelago " (1 plate 
Monthly Microscopical eot (July).—R. Braithwaite, * On Dia 
num rubellum,” Wilson (1 plate). 
Lens (July).—S. T. ner * Algw Rhodiacez " (Rhode Island).— 
. Smith, ** Conspectus of Families and Genera of Diatoms ” (contd.) 
SEPTEMBER 
Grevillea.—M. J. Berkeley, “ Notices of North American Fungi.” 
M. C. Cooke, ^ British Fungi.”—Grunow’s new Diatoms of the 
* Novara" expedition (contd. L- —W. peas * The genus Tetrapedia 
Reinsch " (Plate iii. (Two new species from Ireland, T. Reinschiana 
ed figured. 
botanical Literature 
Flora.—]J. Klein, * id Eo on the Anatomy of young Coni- 
ferous Roots."—4A. Besnard, ** Alphabetical review of the special litera- 
ture of the genus Hieracium, L."?— Dóbner, “ A knotted stem of Abies 
of Chlorophyll colouring matter.” —S. Kurz, * Notes on Znodaphnis, 
Miq., and on a few species of Indian a "Ibi, * A new species of 
Schoen from Central India” (S. pubescens).—F. Schmitz, “ The 
ens of Verhuellia P Mig.” (Tab. VII. and V 'HD. — 
species of Tertiary age.” —J. Re inke, “ On the History of our Knowledge 
of the Development ‘of the Root-point.”—M. Woronin, ** Researches on 
the Development of Puccinia Helianthi causing the disease of Helia 
thus annuus." —P. As "eon ** Further observations on the Pollenation 
of Juncus bufonius, 
The newly-published part (vol. xx xxviii. viii, part 2) of the * Transactions 
of the compe an Society ' consists of two important memoirs : * On the 
ogones and Pyenides of crustaceous Lichens,” by . Lauder 
Lindsay, illustrated by eight plates; and Mr. Miers’ Monograph of the 
