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Fresh and healthy as when they left London; and the transmis $ 
sion was quite as successful between England and Australia, — 
when the voyage, confined to sailing ships, was far longer than — 
now. So useful has this contrivance proved to be in this re 4 
spect, that the Director of Kew Gardens “feels safe in saying — 
836. His volume, “On the Growth of Plants in closely-glazed — 
Cases” appeared in the year 1842, and a second edition, consid 
erably enlarged and suitably illustrated, was published a few years F 
later. i Ward’ i : 
Were in part published in Peppig and Endlicher’s Nova Gene 
Species Plantarum, ete. Soon after his return from his long 
journey of exploration, he took the chair of zoology at Leipsit 
We ina chaaenes of De. Soe dof 
oe ecease of Dr. Scunirziern in Germany, and 
the venerable Francois Devesserr, the head of the salle of De 
lessert since the death of his brother Benjamin, the life-long friend 
of DeCandol! , and the possessor of the botanical museum and 
= library so well known to and so freely at the service of botal 
ist ae Angee ace 
