120 Scientific Intelligence. 
Ill. BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
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1. Botanical Notabilia—Some announcements of recent publica- 
tions with cursory remarks, and items of intelligence are here 
the publications here mentioned which can be said to possess much 
general interest is the first, viz: 
ddress of George Bentham, Esq., President of the Linnean. - 
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topic is Geographical Biology, considered first for plants and then 
fe Although distribution is one of the 
strongest points of derivative doctrine, yet it is wonderful to see, 
in r mparti 
changed wi “Centres of creation,” and the like 
are of the language of the past, here replaced by Bentham’s hap- 
f “areas o: rvation.” d conclusion, tardily 
py ter e 
reached “that the present geographical distribution of plants was 
in most instances a derivative one, altered from a very different 
a 0 consider are such, that it. is indispensable to have a 
term of wider application than “ species hnically means; and 
Mr. Bentham here appropriates to this use the word Race, to de- 
te either anent variety (the old meaning of the word 
anks of Botanists, especially of the younger ones, are due 
to Mr. Bennett and to the Council of the Ray Society. 
