Personal Note. 
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number of other excellent exhibits in this section, noting that a 
certain number of the schools shewed a tendency to adhere to the 
less educational old-fashioned pursuits of mere collecting and 
naming specimens. 
In the Section devoted to work in institutions of a higher grade, 
the Froebel Institute had a long series of exhibits, most of which 
were extremely good and interesting. Among these may be 
mentioned three very good collections of flowers to illustrate the 
characteristic floras of bog-country and moorland at different alti¬ 
tudes, of a mountain glen in Scotland, and of Margate, made during 
summer vacation, and all with explanatory accounts. There were 
also descriptions of an expedition to Hayes Common and Keston, 
with maps of the route embodying the results of the survey of the 
heath country, copses, bogs, ponds, etc., met with. 
With regard to the general organization of the exhibition, it 
would have been more satisfactory if it had been found possible for 
the prizes to be awarded and the prize-winning exhibits marked 
before the exhibition was opened to the public, but we suppose this 
was hardly possible. We were sorry to see that the name of no 
recognised botanist appeared in the list of judges. This is parti¬ 
cularly to be regretted since so large a proportion of the exhibits 
dealt with plants. 
The promoters of the exhibition are to be warmly congratulated 
on its success, and on the stimulus it must have afforded to this 
most fascinating and important branch of modern education. 
PERSONAL NOTE. 
We are extremely glad to announce that Mr. L. Cockayne, 
one of the most enthusiastic of New Zealand botanists, whose 
excellent work on the native flora, particularly his observations and 
experiments on the youth-forms of New Zealand plants, we have 
for some time been intending to review, has been given an honorary 
Ph.D of the University af Munich. 
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