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the rate of twelve dollars and a half per century for Phanerogams, 

 and ten dollars for Cryptogams. His address is — St. Thomas, 

 West Indies. 



Dr. M. C. Cooke has entered upon his duties as Cryptogamist 

 attached to the Kew Herbarium ; he will take charge of the 

 non- vascular Cryptogams. 



The Herbarium of Dr. Samuel Goodenough, sometime Bishop 

 of Carlisle, has been presented by the Corporation of that town to 

 the Kew Herbarium. It consists mainly of garden specimens, 

 many obtained from Kew at the time of his residence at Ealing 

 between 1780 and 1800, but contains also some interesting types — 

 among them those of the plants figured in Shaw's ' Travels' in 

 Barbary and the Levant, and of his own papers on British Car ices 

 and Fuci, published in vols. ii. and iii. of the Linnean Society's 

 ' Transactions ' (1794-97). 



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We are glad to announce the formation of a Natural History 

 Society for Oxfordshire, the object of which is the thorough 

 investigation of the flora and fauna of the county. Prof. M. A. 

 Lawson and Mr. H. Boswell are Presidents of the botanical 

 section, the former undertaking the Phanerogams and the latter 

 the Cryptogams ; Mr. Or. C. Druce being the Hon. Secretary. 

 Mr. Druce asks us to state that he is collecting material with a 

 view to the publication of a Flora of Oxfordshire, into which the 

 MS. material brought together by the late Alfred French will be 

 incorporated ; and he will be glad to receive notes relating to the 

 plants of the county; his address is 118, High Street, Oxford. 

 This Flora will be the more interesting, inasmuch as we have at 

 present no complete enumeration of the plants of either of the 

 counties— Bucks, Berks, and Oxon— included in Mr. Watson's 

 sub-province of West Thames. 



Mr. William Andrews, of Dublin, died on the 11th of last 

 month, at the age of seventy- eight, having been born at Chichester 

 m 1802. Although his labours, especially of late years, were 

 mainly devoted to marine zoology, he published several papers upon 

 Irish plants; and his name is commemorated in the variety 

 Andreusil of Triehomanes radicam (of which he was the discoverer), 



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We understand that Mr. Bichard Kippist, after half-a-century 

 of devoted service as Librarian to the Linnean Society, has retired 

 from that office. The appointment to the vacancy thus caused 

 will be made by the Council in October next ; written applications 

 should be addressed to Mr. B. Daydon Jackson, at Burlington 

 House, Piccadilly. 



We shall be grateful to the Secretaries of local Natural History 

 Societies if they will forward us any notes of botanical work done 

 by their respective bodies, or published reports containing anything 

 relative to local British Botany. 



