380 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
In the “ Oversigt” of the Danish Academy, Prof. Lange pub- 
lishes some critical remarks on the more important plants figured in the 
At 
October 19th, Mr. Roper gave an account of the additions to the 
Flora of the district made since 1875. He estimated these at 100 
Phanerogams, and about 230 Cryptogams, mostly Fungi, certainly a 
large number, 
here is a catalogue of the Ferns and Fern allies of Shropshire by 
Mr. W. Phillips in the Transactions of the Archeological Society for 
this year. 
Resa von Mueller has undertaken a voyage to Shark’s Bay, West 
Australia, with the object of endeavouring to ascertain the geo- 
written by Mr. Heward; who also published an 
account of the ferns of Jamaica in the ‘‘ Magazine of Natural History ” 
A genus of ferns, Hewardia, was dedicated to him by his 
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22nd in her sixty-seventh year, possessed a good knowledge of Euro- 
ts, especially those of Belgium. She was the author of 
several original papers and translations published in the new series of 
the * Phytologist.” 
The executors of the late Dr. Welwitsch have placed the following 
i Cem e 
Princeps. Nat. in Carinthia, 25 Feb., 1806; ob, Londini, 20 Oct., 
1872.” The inscription is surmounted by a Welwitschia plant carved 
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