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Sir Richard Owen’s “ History of British Fossil Reptiles,” which 
has been upwards of forty years in preparation, is now at length 
ready for publication by Messrs. Cassell. On the preparation of the 
268 plates with which the volumes are enriched great labour and 
attention have been lavished. The edition consists of 170 copies only 
(each copy being signed by Prof. Owen), and no further number can be 
produced, as the plates from which the illustrations have been printed 
have been destroyed. The publishers are anxious to give an oppor¬ 
tunity to the chief libraries of the kingdom of acquiring the work. 
Among the original subscribers were many distinguished men who are 
now dead, such as the Prince Consort, the Duke of Buccleuch, the 
Earl of Derby (the grandfather of the present earl), Sir P. de Malpas 
Egerton, Sir J. J. Guest (the father of Lord Wimborne), Henry Hallam, 
Sir Robert Inglis, Sir William Jardine, Prof. Lindley, Sir Roderick 
Murchison, Bishop Wilberforce, Chief Baron Pollock, Prof. Sedgwick, 
Dr. Whewell, Sir F. Thesiger, and Lord Wrottesley.— Athenceum. 
Henry Bohn.— The death, in his 89tli year, of Mr. Henry Bohn is 
announced. He will be longest remembered as a publisher, to whose 
insight and energy students of almost all departments of literature 
and science owe a deep debt of gratitude. He was the means of 
placing within their reach scores and hundreds of volumes, to which 
otherwise they could have had no ready access, if access at all. Mr. 
Bohn was a Fellow of the Royal Horticultural Society in its palmy 
days, and at one time took great and active interest in its proceedings, 
and he was to the last a valued supporter of the Gardeners’ Royal 
Benevolent Institution. Warm-hearted and impulsive, his feelings 
were generous and sympathetic. A man of taste and wide knowledge, 
his appreciation was keen and singularly varied. As a horticulturist 
his garden at Twickenham was chiefly remarkable for the large collec¬ 
tions of hardy deciduous shrubs and Conifers, got together to a large 
extent in consequence of his connection with the Royal Horticultural 
Society and his friendship with the late Mr. Gordon, to the second 
edition of whose “ Pinetum” Mr. Bohn contributed a valuable appendix 
of popular names, and a series of references to coloured plates.— 
Gardener's Chronicle. 
BIRMINGHAM NATURAL HISTORY AND MICROSCOPICAL 
SOCIETY.— General Meeting, held July 29th.—Mr. J. Morley exhi¬ 
bited, on behalf of Mr. W. R. Hughes, a number of plants from near 
Reading, Berkshire, including the following:— Cuscuta Epitliymum, 
Genista anglica , Lytlirum Salicaria, Agrimonia Eupatoria , and Hordeurn 
pratense. Mr. W. B. Grove, B.A., exhibited Vuccinia Baryi (new to 
Warwickshire in the perfect stage), Ramularia Lapsance, and Sporodesmium 
lobatum (new to the district); and on behalf of Mrs. Rabone, Puccinia 
Buxi , Rcestelia cornuta (in the spermogone stage), from Windermere. 
Mr. T. Bolton exhibited Cordylophora lacustris, living and mounted 
specimens. Mr. C. R. Robinson exhibited a Dahlia with two flower 
heads on one stem. Biological Section, August 12tli.—Mr. W. H. 
Wilkinson gave an account of the excursion to Bradnock’s Marsh, and 
exhibited from that district Campanula latifolia , C. patula , C. hybrida , 
Plantago media, Geraniumphoeum, and other rare plants. Mr. T. Bolton 
Holopedium gibberum , an entomostracan from Grasmere. Mr. J. E. 
Baguall, Sison Ainonium (new to North Warwick), Siam angustifolium, 
