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€ doubt their having been taken from a plant of the same genus. 
ould Mr. Burbidge succeed in obtaining quite ripe. fruit, the plant 
wil be fully illustrated in Hooker’s Icones Plantarum. It is believed 
to be one of several species that yield the asafcetida of commerce. 
Donn's Hortus Cantabrigiensis.—Spencer G. Perceval, Esq., of 
Bristol, has presented a handsome copy of ‘the sixth edition of this 
work, of which the first edition appeared in 1796, and the thirteenth and 
last is 1845. The first seven editions por edited b eap phen v 
successive editions were edited by F. Pursh (the author of t 
merice Septentrionalis), John Li indie, George Sinclair, fry Rp. N. 
Don. The first edition is still wanting at Kew 
ature-Printing of Plants.—Since the note at p. 157 on Kniphof's 
Herbarium Vivum was published it has been possible to examine 
another copy of the work in question, an also Brükmann's ‘etter, there 
referred to, on nature-printing; both in the library of the Botanical 
Dééartuedt of the British Museum. "n appears that Kuiphot 
was issued with coloured figures ; the pict. in Pritzel's description having 
been overlooked. With regard to the discoverer of the art of nature- 
printing, Briikmunn (1733) states he remembered hearing that it was 
invented by Sherard and introduced from England into Germany i in the 
preceding century. But a manuscript vote in the copy of Brükmann's 
letter consulted, refers to Spiegel's Zsagoges in Rem Herbarium (1606) 
where the process is described, so that neither of the cem Sherards 
could have been the inveutor. In all probability a-process 
printing was employed by amateurs years before any published work 
was issued. 
Kew and the Colonies—The following speech was delivered by the 
Marquis of Ripon, K.G., late Secretary of State for th» Colonies, at the 
Anniversary Dinner of the Linnean Societ ty on the 24 
last :— 
* I have to thank you se heartily for the reception you have given 
to the toast and also to my name. ir Hugh Low has said that I have 
long been a Fellow of this Society, and I am not quite sure that I am 
not one of the oldest Fellows of this Society, because I am pretty old in 
age myself, and I became a Fellow of the Linnean Society when I was 
a very juvenile youth indeed. I therefore suspect Ó — are per- 
haps not very many members of the Society who have been longer in it 
than myself. But that recalls to my recollection, Eie i fact that I 
ave been for many years a is esse J member ; ve been 
and I hav 
— of this Society as to ‘te totally if tures to y ou in ie capacity 
ofa F 
“ But it bas been a great pleasure to me that this losst has been pro- 
posed by Sir Hugh Low. He spoke in such singular, and I was going 
to say such misplaced, modesty of himself in Tope the toast, that 
you, who do not know so much about his career as I do, would be sur- 
prised to learn that he had been a most distinguished’ publie servant. 
