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more extensive. Taken as a whole, the work is excellent, and 
shows how useful a Department of a may be; we con- 
artnet and envy our American cousin 
WE regret to announce the death of Dr. Benjamin Carrington, 
which took place at Brighton on the 18th of Januar hope 
to publish an account of the deceased hepaticologist from the pen 
of his friend, Mr. W. H. Pearson, in our next is 
Tue Herbarium of Mr. William M. Canby me ree purchased 
by the College ce Pharmacy of New York, and will be placed in 
their new building, now in course of construction. : 
Herbarium has been in course of formation during the last rd 
years, omy is very rich in American collections. An account o 
Be barium by Prof. Rusby is given in the Bulletin of the Lovey 
Club Riscuber last. 
Tue thirteenth volume (1892) of the Proceedings of the Dorset 
Natural History Society contains two botanical papers—one by 
the President, Mr. J. C. Mansel-Pleydell, on Lamprothamnus 
alopecuroides, and the a by Mr. a Lister on Mycetozoa; 
iat is illustrated by a plate. We are glad to learn that the new 
edition of Mr. Mansel- Pleydell’s Flava’ of Dorset is on the eve of 
We are always glad to allow the reprint of papers published in 
this Journal, when the ordinary courtesy of asking es is 
bserved, or a suitable acknowledgment made. A recent ap- 
propriation of several pages, without such Siegen or yer ow- 
ledgment, calls for a protest on our part. in no way interferes 
with the privileges hitherto extended to fieh as desire them, but it 
may perhaps serve as a check upon those who ignore the usual 
amenities of journalism. 
OBITUARY. 
Wuen the death, on the 30th of November last, of that dis- 
tinguished biblical scholar the Rev. Fenton Joun Antuony Hort, 
late Lady Margaret Professor of Divinity, was announced, few 
probably iraorgrastee that forty years ago he m i t have been 
Panett John Anthony Hort was born apparently in — and 
proceeded in due course to Trinity College, Cambridge, hie 
most of his botanical notes are dated. In the 2nd y a of the 
Phytologist (pp. = site ~ eee a ‘ Notice of a few sSinito growing 
at Weston-super-Mar ‘Note on Centaurea nigra var. radiata 
and C. nigrescens,’ both pains date November 5th, 1847, when the 
peat undergraduate was not yet twenty; and in the 8rd vol. 
p. 821-2) is a ‘Note on Alsine rubra var. media Bab.,’ dated 
« Torquay, Sept. 27th, 1848.”’ In the 1st vol. of Henfrey’s Botanical 
Gazette (1849), pp. 197, 200, he has a paper ‘On Viola sylvatica 
