140 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
mended has afforded me much gratification ; could I indulge my in- 
clinations I should study it closely, but at present I feel it necessary 
to devote my attention to the acquirement of that knowledge by 
which I hope to facilitate my progress through life. I lately saw 
a part of Dr. Deering’s manuscripts ; from his interleaved copy 
of the ‘Catalogue of Plants growing about Nottingham’ I 
obtained a few MS. additions: the present professor suggests 
that the Dr. added the ‘ occasional dedication ’ of which I wrote 
ored, 
the exception of Deering I believe no botanist has investigated it 
further, and I have not yet had leisure to undertake the remainder 
of the cryptogamia myself... . . ”—Letter from Thomas Jowett 
to R. Brown, Nottingham, Jan. 12, 1823. 
r. Carr writes: “TI long ago tried to clear up the mystery of 
Deering’s Herbarium, without result. I wrote to Lord Middleton 
committed to the flames. The present head of the Howitt family 
does not know what became of Godfrey Howitt’s Notts plants.”’] 
FERDINAND BAUER’S DRAWINGS OF 
AUSTRALIAN PLANTS, 
By James Britten, F.L.S. 
w 
one of the treasures therein preserved ; that promise I now pro- 
ceed to fulfil, 
106-113) in 1843—an expansion of that published in Proc. Linn. 
Soe. i, 39, read at the meeting of the Society on June 18th, 1839. 
