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ilar subjects, mainly upon the applications of vegetable physiology 
and chemistry to agriculture, but none of such scientific import- 
ance as this. In 1857 he published his Lectures on Roman Hus- 
and printed for private circulation a brief account of his observa- 
tions. His chair will be filled, we trust, by a better, because a 
special, botanist, but it hardly can be by a more excellent man. 
ia; by Lzo Lxseu 
San Francisco, 1868:—As the title indicates, 
logue ; but it contains descriptions of quite a number o new spe- 
cies, The enumeration comprises 265 species, 215 of which are 
from California. The most of these have been collected by Mr. 
than they in species of this order. “It is an ; 
of how much may be done by one man to correct the errors o too 
hasty generalization. ESE: eee 
8. ff pipers Semi-centennial.—On the 20th of December last 
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invitation, Prof. Gray, Col. Olney, Prof. Brewer, Prof. Eaton, Dr. 
Plane a Thos. P. Tannen; Dai Grveh and Porter of Easton, Pa., 
Aw, Jour. Scr.—Szconp Serres, Vou. XLV, No. 134—Maxncu, 1868.0 
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