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140 Scientific Intelligence. 
botanist. We have not yet been able to test this monograph by revising 
be charged with taking too narrow views since under B. al 
he includes ney Spach) “a only B. 2 eo (which appears unavoid- 
able), but also B. papyr ret s no person could readily con- 
eountry. 
. Dr. C. Miller’s continuation of Walpers’ Annales Botanices Siyaten 
ation, —of which two volumes (the fourth and the fifth of the entire 
sickonivé, TT 
. Journal de Botanique ~setonimmg redigé par F. A. W. Mia 
Professor “de Botanique 4 l'Université d’Utrecht, Année, 1861.1 
erdam; a 
a wider circulation for Being published in the French language. The 
iso original articles in this journal are furnished by the editor himself. 
They are a detailed account of the Palms of Sumatra; A_ notice 
Elodea Cun 
yet he has here bene mise a cbnshder able amo ene 
formation about the principal textile fibres of the frog ad “he plant 
that produce them. The great desideratum is some ee a me 
of extracting and cleaning such fibres by machinery; a) Squier 
that “a machine has now, however, been iaventad’ and put = 
both continents, the present modes of predicts ion. I refer to a machi 
invented and eve by a Mr. G. Sanford, designed to operate undet 
a paten by Mr. J. E. Mallory.” * # * “Tf fee 1 safe in s0ying 
that by the aid of a machine not exceeding in cost $100, one expert 
can extract in a single day (say from the pot Sisilana or Hennequit) 
a greater quantity of fibres, i in better condition, than one hundred me? 
can obtain through the primiti vrnbiouon tt in use.” All depends up? 
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