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well-known P. Davidis. Seseieias of each of ae were exhibited on 
the reporters’ table. Mr. Hicks described beds of contemporaneous trap, 
such as had been maseee noticed his colleague, but also showed 
_ their nee and direction; and he aults of the region were touched 
soot cathedral is now being restored, and as there is an excellent 
bathing strand close by, it is likely that this sist corner of the island 
will attract both geologists and non-scientific visitors. The time allotted 
to the authors was so short,-and the President’s mandate so urgent, that 
Searcely even the general facts of the — could be touched 
upon n.— Proc, Brit. Assoc., Reader, Nov. 
lil, BOTANY AND ZOOLOGY. 
1, Botanical Sait for 1864 and 1865.—Following a chronologi- 
cal order we e first to mention a botanist whose decease, although oc- 
seeing in the es 1862, has only recently been known to ‘the world of 
science 
a Christian Friederich Lessing,—the author, in 1832, of the classical 
lompositarum, in honor of whom and his celebrated 
ische aoe took en in the Year 1862, at pea, a village on 
weston sei, between Tomk ai 
Viola ~— rezaninow, one of, the oldest Russian botanists, author of 
y Wtanical papers, and of a Mlora Baicalensi-Dahurica, died at 
Charkow in hou ry, 1864. He had suffered, during the last years of 
his life, by a _ from a ladder in his herbarium. Several ee ago his 
large rium was made over to ee be of Charkow 
n Criiger, at the age of 45, died Feb. 28, 1864, in San Fei 
Botanische Zeitung upon ve e ana dm ee and he 
had taken up the a of - fertilization of Orchids by the aid of in- 
ct on which much was to be ex ie ted from his aay and 
on Catasetum, oped, 
shed, after his death, i in the 31st No. of ‘the Journal of the Li 
&c., communicated to Mr, Daiwin, wa was 
. 
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_ Francis William J anghuhn,a botanist who in former years roade- con- 
» collections in the Dutch East Ind d who 
“he ndi ae to Java 
W years ta ke charge of a government garden, died at Lembang, 
on the oath of April 1864, aged 52 years. 
