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which he aie himself for increasing his knowledge of the 
subject. In 1858 he was appointed Secretary to the Botanical 
Society of Edinbareh, which post he held until his appointment to 
the office of Curator to the Botanic Garden in 1879. Mr. Sadler 
devoted a good deal of attention to the study of British Mosses ; 
he published numerous papers upon them, the first of which 
pened. in the ‘ Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edin- 
urgh,’ in 1868, and made a collection of sev veral hundred 
in the preparation of the not very cpu e Flora of Edinburgh,’ 
published in 1863; and published in 1878 a list of the plants 
of the Isle of May, Firth of Forth (Trans. Bot. Soc. Edin. xi., 
390-2). He had a good knowledge of the localities ‘of the rare 
Scottish plants, and ‘added to the British Flora Carex Feigies and 
a Willow described as new by Dr. Boswell Syme, and nam 
him Salix Sadleri (see Journ. Bot. 1875, pp. 33- 85, tt. 158, 59), 
illness; a portrait of him will be found in the ‘ Gardeners’ 
Chronicle’ for Faas 18, 1879 (n.s., xi., 81). 
Botanical News. 
Mr. M. A. Lawson has resigned the Chair of Botany at Oxford, 
and has accepted the post of pa atc of the Government Cin- 
chona Plantations, Madras. He leaves England early this month. 
Britisx botanists will be glad to ‘eae that the twelfth volume 
of ‘English Botany,’ ed. 3, is in active preparation. 
contain about six parts, comprising the Ferns and a supplement, 
with general index, to the whole work. Part i. may be expected 
early this = ar. : 
Guin Soa Dobrudsha and Sera intends to make ee 
Levant in February next, the other half on receipt of the plants. 
Professor Aschersen (Berl in) will name the plants and will give 
any further information desired. 
M. G. Ruumer, of the Berlin Botanical Museum, is making 
botanical collections near Benghazi, Cyrenaica, where he hopes to 
gather 200-300 species. The plants, named by Professor Ascher- 
son, Berlin, will be sold at £1 a hundred. M. Ruhmer left Malta on 
December 8th. 
M. E. Revercuon will undertake an excursion to Crete during 
the present year, with a view to making botanical collections. He 
expects to obtain from six to seven hundred species, the price 
: which to subscribers will be 25f he hundred. His address 
: Bolléne, Vaucluse, France. 
