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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1840 Excerpt: ...Botanist at Sydney, alluded to in the foregoing extract from the Athenaeum, when he found that, owing to the ruthless parsimony of the authorities, he was not only deprived of all means of prosecuting his researches into the Botany of the Colony, but, instead of being treated as a man of science, was placed, by the nature of his duties, upon the footing of a turnkey. If the evidence I possess upon this subject were made public, it would excite feelings of astonishment and disgust. AWARD OF A COPLEY MEDAL TO DR. BROWN. At the last anniversary of the Royal Society a Copley Medal was presented to Dr. Robert Brown for his original and important discoveries in vegetable anatomy and physiology; and thus has something like justice at last been done to the character of one of the most learned naturalists, and certainly the most profound botanist of our age. It must be no little gratification to the friends of science that this should have been one of the early results of a reformation in the management of the Royal Society, under the enlightened administration of the Marquess of Northampton. The following is the official declaration of the discoveries for which the medal has been awarded: viz. "The organization of the vegetable ovule, immediately before fecundation (published in 1826); and the direct action of the pollen, manifested by the contact established between-it and that point of the ovulum where the embryo subsequently first becomes visible, and published in papers, in the years 1832 and 1833, and communicated to the Linnean Societv." I)r. Ph. Fr. de SieboUl Flora Japonica. Sectio prima, plantceornaiuivel usui inservientes. Digessit Dr. J. G.Zuccarini, Fuse. I.-VIII. 1835-1839.4to. Of this beautiful work eight parts only have appeared in four yea...