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extensive interference with them; on the contrary, th elr preserva- 
tion is a matter of the greatest interest to us. t is stated at the 
r ks to make later, 
and I hope that members will not in the meantime hurriedly come 
to a decision.—GrorGE GOODE. 
more difficult problem—a ten-year-old problem with me. A race 
of water plants living on dry clay, and flourishing abundantly, 
with no new external characters, but plenty of internal, physio- 
logical ones.—E. Aprian Wooprurre-PEacock. 
and Philippe Robert, published this year at Geneva. Many of 
the coloured plates are extremely beautiful, but they are not im- 
proved by the addition of impossible English names. My friend 
M. Correvon tells me he submitted the names to an English 
