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370 BOTANICAL NEWS.
We have to record the appearance of two new periodicals devoted to popular
science, ' The Academy,' published by Murray, and ' Nature,' pubUshed by
Macmillan.
The Queen haa been graciously pleased to give orders for the appointment of
Joseph Dalton Hooker, Esq., M.D., Director of the Eoyal Botanical Gardens at
Kew, to be an Ordinary Member of the Civil Division of the Third Class, or
Companions of the Most Honourable Order of the Bath.
The following inscription to the memory of the late Professor Daubeny has
been placed in the chapel of Magdalen College, Oxford :
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• AB GLOEIAM " DEI
ET • IN • MEMORIAM
CAKOLI • iEGIDII • BKIDLE • DATBENY • " M D
ANNOS • LI • HVIVSCE * COLL ' SOCII
IITEEABVM • HVMANIOKTM ' EXIMIE ' DOCTTS
• * CHEMI^ BOTANI^ffi GE0L0GH.5;
SCIENTIA • INSIGNIS
AMICIS • AMICISSIMVS
' TAM ACADEMIC QVAM ' COLLEGIO ' DEVINCTVS
• DEVM TOTA • MENTE * COLVIT
IN ' CHEISTO • OBDOEMIVIT
DIE • MENSIS • DECEMBEIS ' XIII
A • S • MDCCCLXVII
AVE • ANIMA •
.ffiTATIS • LXXIII
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SIMPLEX ' PIA ' DESIDEEATISSIMA.
Mr. J. Collins, the zealous Curator of the Museum of the Pharmaceutical
Society, has been made a member of the Natural History Society of Caracas.
The fourth part of Mr. J. W. N. Key's ' Flora of Devon and Cornwall ' has
just been published. It carries on the enumeration to the end of Scrophula-
rinecB.