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Title: Journal of botany, British and foreign
Year: 1863 (1860s)
Authors: Trimen, Henry, 1843-1896 Britten, James, 1846-1924 Ramsbottom, John, 1885- Seemann, Berthold, 1825-1871 Rendle, A. B. (Alfred Barton), 1865-1938
Subjects: Plants Plants -- Great Britain
Publisher: London : Robert Hardwicke
Contributing Library: The LuEsther T Mertz Library, the New York Botanical Garden
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s of Dartmoor in 1819, and was all his life agenuine naturalist, and though he has not, so far as we know, con-tributed any technical papers to the scientific journals, his numerouspopular writings contain much accurate information on natural history.A good example of his style when writing on scientific subjects willbe found in his address to the Winchester Nat. Hist. Soc, a portion ofwhich was printed in our volume for 1872, p. 53. He was a Fellowof the Linnean and Geological Societies. We note the formation of a Natural History Society and FieldClub for Watford and its neighbourhood. The active promoters areDr. Brett, Mr. A. Cottam, and Mr. John Hopkinson,junr., the last ofwhom will act as Hon. Secretary. A good Field Club within a fewmiles of London ought to succeed and attract a good many metropo-litan botanists; attempts hitherto made in London itself have, how-ever, not been remarkably successful, if compared with the flourishingclubs of the North and West of England. Ta?D.160.
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W.G.Smith del Blair liih. Mintem Bros imp , Bitter Cola. 65 <©rigmal %ttitW. THE BITTER COLA (GARCINI^,^^.),By Maxwell T. Masters, M.D., F.E.S. (Tab. 160.) In addition to the ordinary Cola or Kolah seeds of Western TropicalAfrica, and which are the produce of Cola acuminata, R.Br.* there arein museums other seeds from the same region, called Bitter Cola.Barter and other collectors have transmitted these seeds, but withoutany information as to the tree producing them. As these seeds arereputed to have properties similar to those of the common Cola it becamea matter of interest, on economic as well as on botanic grounds, todetermine what they really were. An examination of the seedsindeed sufficed to show that in all probability they belonged tosome Guttiferous tree, but no further information was to be had untilrecently. In the early part of 1870 the editor of the Athenmumconsulted me with reference to a letter from a correspondent atLagos, in which the properties of the Cola were

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