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the botanical collections belonging to the University, and it will be 
part of his duty to make the gardens and collections accessible to 
and available for the instruction of students attending his lectures. 
benefaction of W. Sherrard, Doctor of Civil Law, and assigned to 
the professorship, and also to the emoluments appropriated to the 
professorship by the statutes of Magdalen College. The combined 
emoluments of the office from these sources will be £500 a year. 
The Professor will be subject to the statutes of the University in 
regard to the professorship, and to the statutes of Magdalen in 
regard to the fellowship. The Professor will also receive £200 a 
ided 
Tue study-set of the very large collections recently made by 
Mr. H. O. Forbes in Java, Sumatra, Amboya, Timor, and Keeling 
Island, have been acquired for the British Museum Herbarium, to 
which have lately been added the type-collections of Algwe belonging — 
to the late Dr. Dickie, and the Rose-herbarium of the late 
M. Déséglise. 
Mr. Townsenp is anxious to obtain good collections of the 
English mints. Address, stating terms, Honington Hall, Shipston- 
on-Stour. 
_ Dr. Joan Hurron Baurour died on Feb. 11th. We hope to 
give a notice of-his life next month. 
Tue Council of the Royal Society have appointed a committee, 
consisting of Messrs. Ball, Carruthers, Dyer, and Oliver, to prepare 
a catalogue of the known plants of China, and have placed £200 
at their disposal for this purpose. The committee have secured 
the co-operation of Mr. F. B. Forbes, who, during a residence of 
many years in China, devoted considerable attention to its flora, 
and since his residence in England has had prepared, at his own 
expense, catalogues of all the Chinese plants contained in the 
Herbaria of the British Museum and the Royal Gardens, Kew. It 
is proposed that these catalogues and numerous additional materials 
in the possession of Mr. Forbes shall be the basis of the enumeration, 
and that Mr. Hemsley be asked to assist in the work. 
A rumour from China was received last month that Dr. Hance’s 
valuable herbarium and library had been destroyed during the 
a calamity, although he must have passed a mauvais quart @heure 
uring the disturbance. _ 
