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are printed partly in colors, and with descriptive letsor-ptie on 
the reverse, The centennial anniversary of the founder of Plant- 
geography should awake new interest, and give increased popu- 
larity * the subject. 
ew President of the ancient Imperial Academy Nature 
Sorisecrecss, succeeding Carus, is Professor Behn of Hamburgh. 
An interesting bit of botanical literatur ure, is Pursh’s Journal 
of a Botanical Execursion in the Northeastern parts of Pennsyl- 
Y, 
papers accompanying the herbarium of Dr. B. 8. Barton, in the 
possession of the American Fg ae BI Society, and had it 
ae nted in successive numbers of Meehan’s Gardeners Monthly, 
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Possession of his mental ids on the 17th of April, shortly 
after the wast tion of his ninety-fourth year. The very a day 
died the Sees distinguished apasaorta of the — University of 
useppe , in the seventy-third year age. At 
RB Tague be ~ 28th of J July, _ the — vf P Phjeiolovy, J. E. 
hinge, at the age of eighty- He was known in botany as 
= author of a neat little ae ot De cellulis antherarum fibro- 
LA. Ge 
2. . Seelam of the Deep-sea Faune; by A. E. 
Verrin. »—A new era in the history of marine zodlogy may be 
said to have commenced in 1860, when Dr, Wallich obtained a 
Room aad Worms, Crustacea, een and elgg go we nee 
ined fea sound- 
ings and descri Bail d or Sie This inference was at 
ee : ae the aly and of A. Milne-Edwards, who in 
1861 reported a number of living mollusca and corals, found 
o the cclegraph cable between Algiers and Sardinia, 
When foe < for portions that had been sunk to | 
depths of 1098 to {aot Geka Some of these were new, others 
rere known only as sib fossils. In the tS the Swedish 
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