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in the Journal of the ser a Society of Bengal, vol. xlii., pt. 2, p. 175. 
Many new species are des 
The ‘* Scottish N: aturalist » tells us that the Rev. J. Fergusson j is 
preparing ~ publication a Manual of British Bryology. 
Mr. wicke announces to be commenced shortly ‘‘ The British 
ar ay ” in 1 12 parts, at 2s. 6d. each, the plates by the late J. E. 
Sowerby, the descriptions by Dr. Carrington, well-known for his 
investigations of the group; Messrs. Blackwood will _ an 
** Advanced Text-Book of Botany,’’ by Dr. Robert Bro and 
Messrs. Churchill announce a new work on Medicinal Plante; in 
monthly numbers, by Prof.,Bentley and Dr. Trimen, with coloured 
plat 
The serious illness of Dr. Pritzel has for some time iuterrupted the 
issne of the parts of the new edition of the ‘‘Thesaurus’’; we are, 
ta very glad to learn that that useful book is to be continued by 
Jessen, of Eldena. 
r. Willkomm, Professor in the Dorpat University, has been 
appointed Professor of Systematic Botany and director of the Botanic 
Garden in the University of Prag. 
_ In connection with the International Horticultural Exhibition to 
be held at Florence next May, a congress of botanists is contemplate 
The committee of management includes the names of the best known 
Italian botanists, and im Prof..Parlatore for president, we Prof. 
ean Tozzetti as secretary. e have received a general pro- 
gramme of arrangements, aa a list of the subjects sopased for dis- 
Saladin 
The annual show of Fungi at the Royal Horticultural Society took 
place on Digiler: Ist, and brought together a large gathering of mycolo- 
gists. The exhibition was a very good one, but suffered from want of 
proper farvil midi of the specimens. any rarities were shown, 
including Strobilomyces strobilaceus from Hereford, Paxillus atrotomen- 
ont rom Woburn, and Russula aurata from Horsha am. <A ane 
by Mr, W. G. Smith. The first t prize was awarded to Mr. J. Enli sh, 
hat loc aity. 
death is announced at Philadelphia on Bagot hath of Elias 
Durand, in his eightieth year. He was for r many years an apothecary 
in Philadelphia, bat had not lately followed his oe He was 
the author of Plante Hermanniane and Planta P: ratteniane, accounts 
of Californian pene! Ne of reports on the botanical results of 
other American expeditio 
Mrs. Margaret Scott ( Gatty, who died last month at the “ee of 
sixty-four, was best known as a writer for children, but in 
published a work on British Seaweeds, to which she had given rene 
attention, illustrated with plates reduced from m Harvey’s ‘* Phycologia 
las 
We have also to record the death of of R. M. Stark on the 29th of 
September, iat fifty-eight. He was the igs of a popular History 
of British Mosses, and of several papers in the Edinb burgh Botanical 
Society’s Transactions. He followed the cceuption of a nurseryman, 
and had a fine collection of ‘ alpine” plan 
