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issued an appendix forming a supplement to “‘ Topographical Botany.” 
e Club has also issued a cat talogue of British Mosses, compile db 
C. P. Hobkirk and H. Boswell, on the plan of the ‘‘ London Catalogue,” 
which should prove very useful to collectors. 
As an appendix to the Hungarian Journal of Botany there will be 
printed a catalogue of the Flowering plants and Ferns of Servia, 
this part of Europe has long been 
Hu gernon Weddell died aaaeaty at Poictiers last month from 
heart aie; from which he had suffered for several years; thoug 
first published in 1842. He was also a good lichenologist. His loss is 
great, and is Tes widely, especially in England, where he had many 
intimate frien: 
We have avr to record the death of M. Pancher in New Caledonia 
during the course of a second expedition to that group. His valuable 
collections have formed the material of numerous memoirs by Brong- 
niart, Gris,an others. 
‘The death is also announced of Emmanuel Le Maout, rat author of 
Several exelent elementary works, and, with M. Dec the 
‘* Traité ral de Botanique Mi "of which an English andkwiek by 
the <n Mrs Hooker was published. 
ting of the British — at Plymouth was very 
“poorly itendet by Botanists. Profes Dickson and McNab, 
Dr. Trimen, Mr. Briggs, Mr. Hardy, of oa ma and some others 
_were present. _ Naturally there were few botanical papers ; the follow- 
ing were in the Departments of eg and Botany :—‘‘ On the 
species of Hosa near Plymouth,” by T. R. A. Briggs; “On the 
oceurrence of Lavatera sylvestris in Seilly,” by H. Trimen; ‘‘ Notes 
re anticipatory inheritance in plants especially with reference to the 
embryology of parasites,” by G. S. Boulger; ‘¢ On the structure of the 
pene of Cephalotus,” by Prof. A. Diokson:: : “On the movements of 
ter in plants,” by Prof. W. R. McNab; “On the characters of 
iiiaata as affected by locality,” by A. S. Wilson; ‘On the classification 
of plants,” Ms Prof. W. R. McNab; ‘*On Heckel’ Phylogeny of 
” by the same ; “On the fossil Flora of oe e regions,” by 
O. Heer. In the- 7 ropol rof. Rolleston — a 
‘paper a and Fai of 
future iiaboes 
