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science, and author of a valuable original 'work on Fossil Plants, 
which were chiefly obtained from his own coal mines in Bohemia, 
and of an excellent Monograph of the genus Saxifraga, illustrated 
by coloured figures. To him we are indebted for the recovery of the 
vegetable treasures collected by Hsenke in Peru, Cochabamba, and in 
the Philippines, whither he had accompanied the Spanish voyage of 
discovery under the celebrated, but unfortunate, Malaspina. These 
interesting plants have been published by Presl, under the auspices 
of Count Sternberg, in a work entitled ‘ Reliquise Hsenkeanse.’ 
Count Sternberg was distinguished for his urbanit)^ hospitality, and 
an eager desire to promote every useful work. He left his collections 
and books of Natural History to the Museum already mentioned. 
Among the Associates are the following : — 
Mr. John Hunneman. — Mr. Hunneman having been long the me- 
dium of communication between the botanists of this co untry and 
those of Germany, Switzerland, and Russia, our collections have 
been enriched through his means with a vast variety of new and in- 
teresting plants. A curious Mexican genus, belonging to the natural 
family Papaveracece, bears his name, and commemorates the services 
rendered by him to science. 
Mr. George Penny . — He was well acquainted with the plants 
which he successfully cultivated, and was the author of the ‘ Hortus 
Epsomensis’, and of several papers on Garden Botany in Mr. Loudon’s 
Gardener’s Magazine. 
Mr. William Weston Young made the drawings for Mr. Dillwyn’s 
valuable work on British Confervse, and a series of drawings of Bri- 
tish birds now in the possession of Mr. Yarrell. 
The President also announced that twenty Fellov/s, five Foreign 
Members, and two Associates had been elected since the last An- 
niversary. 
At the election, which subsequently took place, the Lord Bishop of 
Norwich was re-elected President ; Edward Forster, Esq., Treasurer ; 
Francis Boott, M.D., Secretary; and Richard Taylor, Esq., Under- 
secretary. The following five Fellows were elected into the Council 
in the room of others going out, viz. W. J. Burchell, Esq., J. W. 
Lubbock, Esq., Hugh Duke of Northumberland, John Forbes Royle, 
M.D., and William Yarrell, Esq. 
NEW SYSTEM OF POSTAGE. 
Our experience during the past month of the New System of Postage, though 
as yet in its incipient and impeifect state, has been most satisfactory and gratify- 
ing, in tlie facility and copiousness of intercourse with our scientific con-espond- 
ents, however distant. Information, observations, suggestions, coivections, proofs, 
drawings, inclosures of various kinds, already l)egin to he interchanged with a 
freedom which is as delightful as it is new and strange, and therefore not yet en- 
joyed to its full extent. We shall find, we are persuaded, ample cause for grati- 
tmlc to Mr. Hill, by whom sogi'cat a benefit has been suggested and perseveringly 
matured ; and not less to Mr. Baring, the present Chancellor of the Exchequer, for 
having faithfully, diligently, and strenuously surmounted eveiy obstacle to the ac- 
complishment of au ol)jcct, of which he has duly appreciated the importance, as 
regards not only the commercial, hut the moral and intellectual interests of the 
countn-. 
