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amongst others, accounts of his experiments on spontaneous genera- 
and 
and there are communication Bida am on Spherotilus natans, by 
Limpricht on the Silesian Mose lora, and by Von Uechtritz on the 
nee eam of the same country with special reference to critical 
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eT The Dorset Natural History and Antiquarian Field Club - issued 
the first part of its ‘‘ Proceedings,” edited by Prof. Buckman. Th 
botanical papers consist of notes by Mr. E. Lees on the Maples in 
Sherborne Park, and on Sparassis crispa, and a note on Dog Violets by 
the excellent President of the Hell Mr. Mansel-Pleydell, whose 
portrait forms a frontispiece to the 
Under the title of ‘* Fossil Plants, peat their testimony in per 
to the doctrine of evolution,” Mr. Carruthers has reprinted his tw 
anniversary addresses delivered as President of the Geologists’ daniete 
tion in 1875, 1876. The first gives an account of the conditions under 
: e 
a progression from lower to higher types, they are completely op 
to the 2 ese of Sopoiee evolution. 
Mr. as communicated to the annual meeting of the 
Cotteswold Naturalists Field Club some “ Preliminary notes to a ait 
posed Flora of Gloucestershire.” The accompanying map 8 
the county divided into twelve districts on the hydrographical system 
now generally followed in county floras, and these are described 1 
the text, which also contains notes on some of the more Pe ite 
species, wants, &c. 
An important history of the literature of Hepatice has been pub- 
lished by Dr. S. O. Lindberg, comprehending all writers from the 
earliest times up to the death of Linneus. The‘ Lichen” of Theo- 
phrastus and Pliny was Marchantia polymorpha, but atter their time 
there sles no additions to the published names till Columna in 1616 
are given. in Swedish. 
. Berggren has published in the “‘ Handlingar ” of the Royal 
Swedish Academy (Bd. 13., No.7 & 8) a cae account of the Musci 
and Hepatice of Spitzbergen and Bear Island collected in the Swedish 
pedition of 1 nage ai 1868, and of the cay of Disco Bay 
rd in Gree 
Sir Joseph Hooker is visiting Prof. Asa Gray in the United Swe 
‘ of America. The ‘ “eh remem ” states that he intends to 
botanical to 
‘ through 
The death is Bok ay of Dr. Gustay b Sages Focke at Bremen, 
on June ae his sixty-eighth year. He was well known for his 
in Desmidee and Diatoms. 
