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through the Alpine Garden, tea, and a visit to the Azalea dell, 
they accordingly dispersed.” 
the annual meeting of the Selborne Society, Mr. Boulger 
‘alluded to the obligations the Society owed to the heads of various 
public ppv Their visits to the British Museum, for example, 
had been eat advantage during the winter. e , ag editor, 
& great m ihe curious objects sent in to him which the finders were 
unable to classify, and in matters of this kind the heads of scientific 
——: = as the Museum were most obliging. They had, 
how with a reception from one public body which was 
Se as a great grievance at the time, but might be yet 
susceptible of a This was the preavsg on the giving 
of botanical lectures in Kew Gardens. It a rule under the 
arks Regulation Act whis h might justifiably | i innaisied. While 
it was desirable public parks should not be turned into debating 
as they proposed giving and the aggressive utterances of Hyde Park 
orators. He was decidedly of opinion that in their case the rule 
should be abrogated.” We think most folk will be of Mr. Boulger’s 
is now announced as an “ occasional” publication 
Tue publication of memoirs by women in the Transactions and 
Journals of learned Societies seems to us to establish an unanswer- 
able argument in favour of their admission as members to the bodies 
which avail themselv ves of their contributions. We would suggest, 
Farquharson, a leading advocate of the proposal. Some 
Westy years ago, when Miss Marion §. Ridley, Mrs. Farq harson 
wrote a little book on British ferns, which was noticed in this 
Journal for 1881 (p. evo a teas this hardly entitles her to be con- 
sidered a ‘leading bo 
Tux latest issue of the Flora Brasiliensis (1 ay concludes the 
monograph of the Sapindacee by Prof. Radlkofer 
Ar the meeting of the Linnean Society on June 7th, 1900, 
Prof. Sydney H. Vines, F.R.8., the new President, in the chair, 
Dr. Otto Stapf, A.L.S., read a paper on the two Melastomaceous 
genera Dicellandra ae f. and ri on Gilg. He showed that 
the differences between them are not in the heterandry and home- 
andry respectively, as was sie aon but in much more important 
characters which concern all those parts which affect the formation 
