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��Dr. Hooker, Mr. Ball, and other friends are about to start on a trip to Morocco, and will penetrate into the interior if a safe-conduct can be obtained from the Emperor of that semi-barbarous state. One of the young gardeners from Kew will accompany the party to assist in collecting plants.

Dr. Seemann returned from Nicaragua on the 14th of last month, bringing with him several new and interesting plants from the Chontales gold region.

Mr. E. Chambers, the supposed author of ' Vestiges of Creation,' is dead.

The 11th and 12th decade of vol. xxii. of Eeichenbacb's ' Icones,' recently published, continues the illustration of the genus TrifoUitm ; the details of the species are extensively and accurately figured.

From the thirteenth Annual Report of the East Kent Natural History Society, we regret to learn that the investigation of the flora of East Kent was unavoidably checked during last year. "We trust the Society will earnestly set to work again this season at this inquiry. Any notes on the subject will be gladly received by J. field, Esq., Bridge Street, Canterbury.

"We notice the publication of Prof. De Notaris' 'Epilogo della Briologia Italiana.'

The Pharmaceutical Society offers to its students under the age of twenty-one a silver medal for the best herbarium of Phanerogams and Ferns collected in any part of the United Kingdom between May 1, 1871, and June 1, 1873. The specimens are to be arranged by the natural system, and sent in before the 2nd of July, 1872. Should more than one candidate be entitled to a reward, a bronze medal will be given to the second in merit.

The vacant Professorship of Natural History in Queen's College, Belfast, has been filled by the appointment of Dr. K. O. Cunningham, an ardent naturalist, who has but recently returned from the survey by H.M.S. Nassau of the Strait of Magellan, and has just published a volume of Notes on its Natural History.

Mr. Alfred Smee, F.R.S.,is engaged in writing a book upon his garden at Carshalton, Surrey. Besides descriptions of all the plants wild and cultivated there, a great number of illustrations will be given.

Dr. Karl Heinrich Schultz-Schultzenstein, of Berlin, one of the most enn'nent botanists in Germany, was found dead in his bed on the morning of March 23rd. He had been engaged at his desk until past midnight. The deceased, though in his seventy-third year, was remarkably active, and was a lecturer on physiology as well as on botany in the University of Beriin, with which lie had been coiuiected since 1822.

A bust of Mr. J. J. Bennett has been executed by Mr. H. Weekes, E.A., and placed in the Botanical Department of the British Museum, with which Mr. Bennett was so long connected.

Communications have been received from — J. Sadler, Prof. Thiselton Dyer, Dr. Boswell Syme, J. R. Jackson, T. B. Flower, J. Britten, Prof. Church, W. Carruthers, etc.

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