BOTANICAL NEWS. 63 
done in Botany by the Royal Belgian Academy of Sciences, Literature, 
and the Arts during the first century of its existence, 1772 to 1871, 
nationale’). From that date a short abstract or notice of all the 
appended. 
The Newbury District Field Club has published an elegant 
first volume of ‘‘ Transactions,’’ bearing date 1871. The botanical 
papers are two—Mr. Britten’s contributions to a Flora of Berkshire, 
already noticed in our pages (vol. x., p. 58); and a list of Phanero- 
by H. 
gams, Ferns, and Mosses in the parish of East Woodhay, 
too long to reproduce in our pages, especially as to do so would be to 
print over again many things which were first published in this 
Journal; but it is our intention to give copious extracts in an early 
mime gelida, Willemetia apargioides, Potenti la nivea, Dianthus 
glacialis, Sesleria microcephala, Crepis pygmea, and Valeriana supina 
amongst other rarities. ‘The district is specially interesting from 
the fact that some eastern and western alpine types meet here, where 
they appear to find their extreme limits. : : 
ingsheim’s ‘‘Jahrbiicher fiir Wissenschiftliche Botanik ”’ 
for 1872 is occupied by two papers:—Pfeffer’s ‘* Researches 
on Protein-corpuscles and Asparagin,” with two plates; and 
Wiesner’s ‘‘Observations on certain Colouring Matters,” with one 
late. 
A useful list of the species contained in the published Fasciculi 
of Dr. Rabenhorst’s Hepatice and Bryotheca has been recently 
issued. : 
We are glad to make it known that Mr. F. J. Hanbury 1s collect- 
ing material for a complete Flora of the county of Kent. No county 
Flora is more wanted than this, and we are happy to give publicity to 
his request that all who have any notes or memoranda, however 
Tesident in the county who is willing to work up the flora in his 
district a copy of the ‘London Catalogue,” in which to mark off 
the plants which occur. Address :—F. J. Hanbury, Stoke Newing- 
to 
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The Council of the Royal Society have resolved to continue 
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