352 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
has been 1 printed in a Transactions of the Royal Society of Arts 
and panies of Mauri 
Dr. W. G. Farlow sie been pee assistant Professor of Botany 
at Cambridge, United States. He is to be attached to the Bussey 
Foundation at Forest Hills, near Beaten where the Cryptogamic prtd 
ratory is located. Dr. Farlow was the purchaser of the important 
collections of the late Mr. M. A. Curtis, the well-known cryptogamist of 
America. 
There is a biography of the late Hugo von Mohl in the Leopoldina, 
heft x., p. 34. 
An enumeration of the published works of the late Prof. Fée 
occupies ony, five closely-printed octavo pages of the last part of 
the ‘‘ Bulletin” of the French Botanical Society. 
The Caradoc Field Club held a meeting at Mime Stretton on 
October 14th, to investigate the district for Crypto 
spite of bad. weather a number of ecimens were recollected. A 
Rey. W. A. Leighton gave 
i of bariaaietial of Lichens, illustrated by specimens from 
herbarium ; the Rev. J. E. Vize exhibited numerous micro- 
paler specimens of spores of Fungi , &c. A collection; of the larger 
Fungi attracted much attention. the meeting was in all respects 
very satisfactory. 
Fungus show has been held at Munich, in the Crystal Palace 
there, from October 3rd to 11th, and is said to have been visited by 
nearly 50,000 persons. The arrangements were well made and the 
plants carefully labelled. A list of the species exhibited will be 
found in the ‘‘ Gardener’s Chronicle.” 
The Cryptogamic Herbarium of Mr. I. Carroll of Cork, which is 
rich in Trish Lichens, and contains many of the late Admiral 
Me ones’s specimens, has been acquired by the British Museum 
In the 25th volume of the “Transactions of the Royal Irish 
to contend with has been the impossibility of obtaining in Dublin, in 
the same locality, the two essentials for experimenting—namely, @ 
laboratory and a botanical garden. The appliances of a ¢l ical 
