Assam Tea Plant. 



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appears at its top, which seems to forbode its fall. At its base, some 

 families of the tribe of the Asbatas, or Large Horns, vegetate. The 

 rattlesnakes and dangerous reptiles that are to be met at every step, 

 would be a scourge to the country, had not the savages discovered, in 

 a root very common here, an infallible specific for every venomous 

 bite. — Annals of the Propagation of the Faith. 



The Assam Tea Plant. — We learn that the Agricultural Society of 

 India, after having given their gold medal to Captain Charlton " as 

 the first person to establish to the satisfaction of the Tea Committee, 

 and its Secretary, that the Tea tree was indigenous in Assam," have 

 also presented the same mark of honourable distinction to Major 

 Jenkins, " for bringing to a successful result the inquiry in regard 

 to the establishment of the Tea-plant in Assam." What if the 

 Assam plant should not be Tea, that is, Chinese Tea after all ? — Gar- 

 dener's Chronicle, No. 37, 1842. 



Twelfth Meeting of the British Association, for the ad- 

 vancement of Science, Manchester, 22nd June, 1842. 



The General Committee assembled at noon, Professor 

 Whewell in the chair, when a report of the Council was 

 read. 



This document referred to the various objects of inquiry, 

 for which premiums are offered for reports to be read at 

 the next Meeting, which is to take place in Cork in the 

 summer of 1843. At the recommendation of the geological 

 section of a former Meeting, 601. are to be placed at the 

 disposal of Mr. Edward Forbes, who is to be requested 

 to draw up a report on the Radiata and Mollusca of the 

 iEgean and Red Seas, and the following gentlemen were 

 formed into a Committee to report how far Zoological No- 

 menclature might be established on an uniform and permanent 

 basis : Mr. Darwin, Professor Henslow, Rev. N. Jenyns, 



