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with an interesting description or the difficulties 
overcome by the iron will of the great navigator. 
He was followed by eleven speaker* : but unfor- 
tunately the newspapers of Genoa were unable to 
report in detail the eleven speeches, bignor de 
Carvalho, from Brazil, was the first in order; Ge- 
neral Muktar Pasha, the delegate of Egypt, follow- 
ed, partly in Arabic, and partly in French; to 
him followed Prnfes >r Leva eur. of the French 
GeographicabSoeiety, in Frei ch; then came Profes- 
sor Wagner, for Germany, in the German language; 
he was succeeded by Mr. SteinthaJ, in English, who 
expressed his admiration of the success of the 
Congress; and as Dr. George Smith, LL.D., the 
delegate from Edinburgh, had been compelled to 
leave Genoa, his place, by request, was taken by 
•Miss Marla; Gust, a member of the Congress, whose 
address, in the English language, was 'greeted with 
the applause of the assembly, and II. P H. the Duke 
of Genoa, rising from his seat, > shook hands with 
her before she sat down. 
Professor Muller, for Holland, addressed the 
assembly in Mitch, and concluded his remarks in 
Italian. He was loudly applauded. To him suc- 
ceeded Doctor Negruzzi, from Roumania, and 
General Wemenoff, the delegate of Russia, each in 
his native language; Colonel Julio Segui y Sala, 
the representative of Spain, in full uniform, t’ollow- 
ed with a magnificent oration in Spanish; Profes- 
sor Effliger spoke in the French language as the 
representative of Switzerland; and finally Signor 
Polleri closed the remarkable exhibition of sympa- 
thetic admiration by a speech in Spanishes repre- 
sentative of Uruguay, in South America. 
The Syndic, Baron Podesth, followed with a 
speech in French; and then the President of the 
Italian Geographical Society, the Marquess Doria, 
presented to the African explorer, Gaetano Casat^ 
the gold medal of the year. HR,. PL the Duke of 
Genoa, shook him by the hand, and congratulated 
him on the honour. The celebrated African mis- 
sionary and scholar, Abb ■ Beltramo, then obtained 
leave to propose a message of good wishes to the 
Italian colony now settled on the Abyssinian sea- 
coast, and to its governor. This was voted by ac- 
clamation. 
At 3 p.m. the final general meeting took place; 
the business was chiefly formal. It was; — The 
next Italian Congress should be held at Rome in 
1694: votes of thanks were passed: the Countess 
O .varoff, representative of the Geographical 
Society in St. Petersburg, made a sir.i : speech in 
1 French to convey a vote of thanks to the President 
j of the Congress. At night there was a banquet in 
the Sale del Eidotto, at the theatre, presided over 
by the Syndic of Genoa, who was the host to the 
two Gongresse —I sc graphical and Historical; 
there were some excellent speeches. The usual 
toasts followed, and the next morning the Cor.gres- 
sists dispersed. — [R.N.C.] 
Botanical Notes 
By Major M. J. Godfery. 
In the early part of October the small but very 
graceful Narcissus serotinus was abundant at the 
Wied Incita, growing in company with »$ 'cilia au- 
tvmnalis and Jluscari parvijiorum. A flying 
visit to the same valley also produced Triple chin 
barrel ieri, and Ajuga iva, whilst Inula saeatilis 
T. graveolens and T. viscosa were of course plen- 
tiful, the latter looking like broom in the distance 
with its masses of bright yellow flowers. Ca: ‘ba- 
vins lanatus was also found, whilst the pretty soft 
fluffy balls of Conyza ambigua were noticeable 
everywhere. Some of the rock pools were full of 
Zanuichellia palnstris but of course not in flower. 
While going to Boschetto on the 14th October I 
found Puli car ia dysente ■ >ea with its yellow flowers 
and Cle nopodium anibrosioidcs growing freely by 
the road-side. Near Verdala Colchicvm bertok nii 
var cupani, Carlina gummifera and the universal 
iVepeta calamintha were abundant, and Ciocus 
/> hi ip or us was subsequently found in profusion 
in the neighbourhood. S mi fax aspera. with is 
pretty, sweet -rented flowers, was also seen, as 
well as Spirant lies autumnalis the only Maltese 
orchid which flowers at this time of the year. 
Some of the flowers of the Golchicum and of the 
Crocus were perfectly white. After much search 
Ci'-m it is cirrhosa was also found, but it does not 
appear to have flowered this year, the plants being 
small and weak. On the 25th a few flowers of 
Narcissus jtazetta were gathered for the first time 
and early in November it was obtained in great 
quantity. The season appears to be an unusually 
forward one, as Delicata gives December to March 
* as the flowering-time of this narcissus. Asparagus 
