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86 . MEMOUANDA.
susceptors seek only to be secured from personal loss— possess a more complete
manual for tlie floras of Greece, Turkey, Egypt, Syria, and Western
Asia, than for that of the Iberian penhisula ; whilst Italy, so long distracted
and misgoverned, besides innumerable local Florulas, and the works of Moris
and Gussone for Sardinia and Sicily, has given us a complete Flora of the
country in ten volumes, and another in course of publication which will pro-
bably attain equal length.
My object in addressing to you this communication, which I earnestly hope
may meet the eyes of Prof. Wilkomm, is to point out that, under the altered
political circumstances of Spain, and with a growing desire for enhghtenment,
an application to the Government to subscribe for 50 or 100 copies, to be
placed in the principal libraries, could scarcely fail to meet with a ready and
favourable response.
I trust my suggestion will not be neglected, and that its success may prevent
a calamity which would demonstrate too clearly that, whUe many talk of the
progress of our science, there can be comparatively few who take a real interest
in it.
Whampoa, China, Decemher 11, 18G8.
MEMOEANDA.
H. F. Hakce.
The Rev. J. E. Leefe requests us to announce that he is now prepared to
send off copies of the 6.vst fasciculus of the ' Salictum Exsiecatum,' postage paid,
on the i-eceipt of 8*., either in stamps or by Post Otlice order. Address,
Cupwell Vicarage, Morpeth.
The Wollastyn Fund has been awarded by the Council of the Gcolooical
Society to Mr. W. Carruthers, of the British Museum, in consideration of his
researches in fossil botany.
A Memor of the late Professor Harvey, of Dublin, has just been published
by Messrs. Bell and Daldy.
Dr. H. C. Wood lias discovered a plant growing in a hot spring at Benton,
Owen's Valley, California. The temperature of the spring is often 160 degrees.
The plant he names Nosioc caladarium. It not only grows freely in water of
this very great temperature, b\it supports on itself a simpler structure, which he
has designated Chroococcus thermophilus.
The Pinks of Califoiima.—At a recent meeting of the Cahfornia Academy
of Sciences, Dr. Bolauder said there were but fifteen species indigenous
to the State. Of Firs there were but four. He said Mr. Murray had a fifth,
which he called Picea magnijica, which was but P. amabilis. He thought the
European botanists multiplied species in the interest of seedsmen, as there was
such a demand in Europe for seeds oi new things.
Thuja and Libocedrus.—We have been requested, by Mr. Robert Brown,
to correct au error which has crept into liis " Monograph of the Coniferous