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* days beforehand. The indications consist in a change in the position 
* of the leaves and in the rise and fall of the twigs and branchlets.” 
In the ** Times? for November 5th following, a statement claiming 
even more remarkable properties for the plant was pubiished from the 
. Vienna correspondent of that Journal. It is quoted verbatim :— 
“ The British Consul-General in Vienna has been instructed by the 
oreign Office to request Professor Nowack to furnish him with in- 
* formation about his famous weather plant. The Committee of the 
* Jubilee Exhibition which has just closed has promised Professor 
* Nowack a certificate, to the effect that the weather forecasts made by 
his plants were correct in 96 cases out of 100. I have been requested 
It is not known whether any report upon the subject from the British 
Consul-General at Vienna reached the Foreign Office. At any rate no 
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n o vember 
10th the secretary, Mr. William Sowerby, F.L.S., exhibited “ plants of the 
“ so-called * Vienna Weather Plant, Abrus precatorius, from the Society's 
t may be noticed that Mr. Sowerby identified the weather plant 
with Abrus precatorius, In point of fact no such name as Abrus 
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werby's remarks were communicated to the * Times," and 
produced the following reply ;— 
To THE EDITOR Or THE * Trugs." 
Str, 
As the London correspondent of Professor Nowack, of Vienna, 
I beg leave to say a few words in reply to the statement in the. 
* limes” of yesterday, with reference to the recent meeting of the 
ing t lant. 
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the explanations given by the Secretary of the Society it is 
i Botani iety is labouring under an entire 
misapprehension as to what really forms the gist and 
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: owack does not in the least dispute the Secretary’s 
allegation, “that the behaviour of the weather plant in the Society’s 
“ (or any other) gardens varied at one and the same time, according to 
‘ the special conditions under which they are growing "; quite the 
