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CONTENTS. 



PROCEEDINGS OF SOCIETIES:— 



PAGE 



Botanical Society of Edinburgh, 



149 



SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE:^ 



BOTANY. 



1. The Progress of Tea Cultivation in Northern India. 

 2. Tinder used in the Punjaub. 3. Sissoo Tree (Dal- 

 hergia Sissoo). 4. Botanic Garden, Calcutta, 159-163 



6. Letter from Mr Robert Brown, Botanist to the British 

 Columbia Association of Edinburgh, dated Victoria, 

 Vancouver's Island, July 24, 1863. 6. Call to parti- 

 cipate in presenting a Testimonial to the distinguished 

 Botanist, Dr Carl Friedrich Philipp von Martins of 

 Munich. 7. Geographical Discovery in New Zea- 

 land, ..... 163-168 



8. The late Rev. Stephen Hislop of Nagpore. 9. Mr P. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



OBITUARIES. 



A. Munch, the Historian of Norway, 



169, 170 



Publications received. 



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