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points at issue. 
Dr. Posr publishes, in the Quarterly Statement of the Palestin 
Exploration Fund for January, an account of a trip to almyra, in 
eé course of which he collected the new species enumerated in our 
last issue (p. 62), with a large number of others, of which a list is 
appended. Hart’s volume on the Fauna and Flora of the Wady 
Arabah is announced as ready for publication. 
lutum N., Jungermania sawicola Schrad., J. Kunzei Hiiben., Har 
panthus Flowtowit N., of which there was little probability of British 
specimens being procured, although only sixty copies have been 
pared. 
Tue first part of an English edition of Lindenia has appeared, of 
hich Mr. R. A. Rolfe is the English editor. The number contain 
four plates, and Mr. Rolfe is responsible for two of the descriptions 
—one of a new species, Peristeria aspersa, the other of a plant 
formerly referred to Odontoglossum, but now placed in Cochlioda 
(C. Noezliana). 
Tse Herbarium of the late M. Triana, containing upwards of 
8000 plants, has been acquired by the British Museum, as well as a 
large collection from the province of Atacama, Chili, made by 
MM. A. Borchers and F. Philippi, and determined by Prof. R. A, 
Philippi. 
C. Harr has published in the Proceedings of the Royal 
On th 
hi 
which he summarises the result of his seven or eight years’ 
botanising in the Irish mountains. The information is given for 
e m in tabular form, with observations upon certain 
species, and 
Cybele Hibernica. 
Pror. Macoun is making rapid progress with his enumeration 
of Canadian Mosses, and will publish descriptions of the many new 
species in part vi. of his Sy opsis of the Canadian Flora. The 
Mosses and Hepatic of Canada number at least a thousand species, 
The Transactions of the Leicester Literary and Philosophical Society 
for January contains ‘A few notes on the Kew Herbarium,” by the 
Rey. T. A. Preston. Mr. Preston incidentally refers also to the 
National Herbarium at South Kensington: but his remarks suggest 
the desirability of his obtaining more accurate and fuller information 
regarding this establishment. 
| __We learn with regret of the recent death of Prof, Maximowicz, 
_ of St. Petersburg, which took place on the 16th ult, 
