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The President chosen for next year is one of the

most eminent of living botanists, Dr. Hooker, of Kew ; and Norwich is to be the place of meeting, Dr. Dalrymple urging its claims on the ground of its deep barbarism, which cries out for enlightenment, and also of its barbarous virtue of hospitality. The meeting is to be held earlier next year—in August.