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bay? “Catalogue of Scientific Papers,” carrying on the list up 
1873. 
The following are among the ne ne of the Government 
grant of £1000 for the advancement of s e to the Royal Society 
for 1872:—£50 to T. R. Fraser for fives gition of the antagonism 
between Physostigma and Atropia; £20 C. Williamson for 
researches on organisition of fossil plants of the coal measures ; £50 
to C. R. A. Wright for history of opium alkaloids. 
Dr. C. € as been continuing his explorations in the Rocky 
Mountains during 1872, and has made large collections. 
Mr. A. ennett, M.A., &c., has been appointed Lecturer on 
Botany to St. Thomas's Hospital Medical School. 
Dr. G. Henderson, the Yarkand fenvaliine™ is acting for Dr. King 
as director of the Caleutta Botanic Garden, during the latter’s pie: 
in Euro 
Prof. Willkomm of Dorpat has gone for scientific purposes, to 
the Balearic Islands and the ‘South of Spain, and will remain there 
till A Ne a ae 
As pendix to the last published part of the “ Revue Biblio- 
graphique” of the Soc. Bot. de France (Jan.—April, 1872) are obituary 
ie the late A. Gris and 8. R. Lenormand. 
reat European Moss herbarium of Milde has been acquired 
by the Kaaaeary ot Nat. Science at Stockholm, and the herbarium 
of rll Ferns, &c., has been bought by Herr A. Metzler of Frank- 
ort ; 
_HERBARIUM FOR Sare.—Mr. Kue mer nee ova of the Upper 
ith reference to a paragraph about Hooker and Baker's 
“Synopsis Filicum” in our last number, we are requested by the 
Foe to state that the stock of that work is not yet quite ex- 
ha 
We have been asked by the solicitors to the Portuguese Govern- 
ment to request our readers to reserve their judgment on the conduct 
n 
made 
The herbarium of Wimmer, author of “ Salices Europe,” has 
become the property of Herr R. Fritze, of Rybnick, Silesia. 
