ae at E. 9 prceeene the of the channe 
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by some recent cases which Dr. Masters has exhibited to the Sci- 
entific Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society ;—in which 
the foliage of the grafts of one species Abutilon took on variega- 
tion from the variegated stock es a different ii ae and vice versa, 
a variegated graft, inserted upon a green stoc k, and after a time 
pinched back, caused buds of ‘the stock to dev elop with varie- 
gated foliage. Moreover, in a case recorded by Prof. Morren, the 
variegation ceased after 'the accidental sean of the varie- 
gated graft; and it is said that “the mere insertion of a detached 
7. Prof. Francis Uneer, of Vouk distinguished in Fossi 
Bota any, &c., in former years the associate of Endlicher, ‘tied in 
his native town of Gratz, February 12th, in the 69th year of his 
age. It was at first repo orted that he had died sang 6 — 
that he was found “ murdered in his bed.” 
On Deep Sea Dredging in the neighborhood of the British 
Tales in 1869:—The Temperature, Currents, Life, Waters, and 
ases present in the dae in the depths of the Oceans ; by Dr. 
W. B. Carpenter.—The following are extracts from a * Lecture 
by Dr. Carpenter before the Royal Institution of Great Britain on 
the 11th of February last. We omit the most of what relates to 
the life of the sea bottom, as this part of the subject was toa oe 
by Prof Verrill i ip our Janua uary number, at page 129. 
cruise 
commenced from Galway, and was directed first to the southwest, 
then to the west, and finally to the northwest as far as the Roc 
Bank; the greatest depth of dredging done by it was 1476 
ing was carried to a depth of 2345 fethorns the seat over the 
a between the north of Scotland and the Faroe Islan 
pe * The oe summary of the results rth re regard 
to temperature brings into marked contrast the rages”: ot = 
_ Warm and po areas, Saitek ively the W.S 
a Phetween ‘the north of Fhe 
ure may be s ‘Gd. toe everywhere nearly 
; the variations above or below this being at 
le oe atmospheric differences (as oy aay Sarpy &e.) 
ren: atitude. Alike in the warm and the cold areas 
there was a fall of from 8° to 4° in the first 50 fathoms, ener 
