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to entertain the idea, they will take care that ample notice shall be 
given, and that the judgment of the persons most accomplished in 
Botany shall be fairly weighed in the first instance.—I am, sir, your 
obedient servant, Wirn1am Law.” 
eare glad to announce that Mr. J. ©. Mansel-Pleydell’s Flora 
the thirty-second part of the “ Natuurkundig Tijdschrift voor Neder- 
landsch-Indie.” He describes fourteen new species of various 
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species of which are enumerated as found in these islands, fifteen 
ing figured. The other plates accompanying the memoir are devoted 
. H. C. Watson intends to print a selection from the materials 
collected in years past to show the distribu iti 
render the enumeration as complete as possible. e cordially second: 
his appeal, and congratulate British Botanists on the prospect of so 
useful a book 
of the Gard 
_ Dr. Ernst, of Caracas, has been named by the Government of 
Venezuela to fill the Chair of Botany in the University of Caracas, 
where Natural History has hitherto never been taught. He is like- 
wise commissioned with the foundation and management of a small 
botanic garden and the correspondent botanic museum. For the 
garden he will have the two large yards of the University building, 
both together 1300 square metres large, which will give about 800 
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Hayne contributed an interesting and valuable paper on the Flora of 
oab to our volume for last year. 
