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writer of this notice had the pleasure of passing a day with him, a few 

 years ago, at the house of a common friend, and retains a vivid recollec- 

 tion of the tall form of this octogenarian, perfectly unbent by age, of his 

 corporeal vigor, still equal apparently to that of most men of half his 

 years, and of his vivacious and instructive conversation, which exhibited 

 no decline of mental power, much of it carried on, with remarkable cor- 

 rectness and facility on his part, in a language which he can have had 

 little occasion to use for almost half a century. a. g. 



6. Prof. Wm. H. Harvey. — The numerous friends of this distinguished 

 botanist in this country will be pleased to learn that, during his still-pro- 

 longed absence upon his Australian and South Pacific explorations, he 

 has been elected to the chair of Botany in Trinity College, Dublin, va- 

 cated last year by the translation of Professor Allman to the University 

 of Edinburgh. a. g. 



7. On three new Ferns from California and Oregon; by Daniel C. 

 Eaton. — (1.) P oly podium pachyphyllum. Coriaceum late ovatum fere 

 ad rachim pinnitifidum, laciniis oppositis glabris lineari-oblongis, margine 

 crassiore ac stramineo, obtusis crenatis ad basim angustioribus, inferiori- 

 bus minoribus disjunctis basi inferiori cuneatis, superioribus fructiferis, 

 rachi stipitique nudis stramineis crassis, costa prominente, venulis 4-5 

 frequenter sub margine anastomosantibus infima sorifera, soris margine 

 remotis magnis rotundis setate confluentibus. 



Hab. On trees, sometimes 150-200 feet from the ground, near Fort 

 Orford, South-western Oregon. Lieut. A. V. Kautz, U. S. A. 



Rootlets aerial, frond very thick, evergreen, 12-15 inches high, and 

 nearly half as wide. 



(2.) Polypodium Glycyrrhiza. — Pellucidum membranaceum, fronde 

 lato-lanceolata profunde pinnatificla, laciniis alternis glabris lineari-lanceo- 

 latis in longum acumen productis acute serratis ad basim dilatatis, rachi 

 pallida gracili, venulis 3-4 liberis infima sorifera, soris liberis rotundis 

 margine remotis. 



Hab. On trees in South-western Oregon. Lieut. A. V.Kautz, U. S.A. 



Rootlets aerial, having a sweet flavor like that of liquorice, frond an- 

 nual 12-18 inches high, 4-6 inches wide. 



(3.) Allosorus mucronatus. — Csespitosus coriaceus triangulari-ovatus 

 bipinnatus, pinnis sub-oppositis, pinnulis mucronatis inferioribus trifoli- 

 atis, sterilibus planis ovatis, fertilibus angustis margine revolutis, rachi 

 rigida purpurascente, cauclice denso paleis linearibus obtecto. 



Hab. Clefts of rocks in the hills near the bay of San Francisco, Cali- 

 fornia. Major A. B. Eaton, U. S. A. 



Fronds 2-6 inches high, 6-20 lines wide. A. andromedafolius is 

 larger, and has emarginate pinnules and a creeping caudex. 



8. On a new species of Dinornis ; by Prof. Owen, (Proc. Zool. Soc, 

 Athenaeum, No. 1485.) — Mr. W. Mantell having provisionally depos- 

 ited the large collection of fossil bones, with which he has returned from 

 New Zealand, in the British Museum, the Keeper of the Mineralogy re- 

 quested Prof. Owen to determine the bones and classify them according 

 to their species, in the course of which work the Professor has found the 

 remains of a species of large wingless bird, hitherto undescribed and un- 



