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the country. A disease of the wheat has made its appearance: it seems 
owing to (or at least contemporary with the existence of) a fungus of 
the genus Torula. 
Mr. Webb departed on Saturday last for Paris. He made a much 
shorter stay at Florence than we expected, and on that account did not, 
as was anticipated, pursue his labours with Parlatore in the “ Florula 
Aithiopico-egyptiaca.”’ 
I grieve to say Professor Parlatore’s health is not quite satisfactory ; 
he has not yet entirely recovered from the severe trial to which his con- 
stitution was subjected in Lapland, and he has moreover been weakened 
by excessive study during this spring. The physicians have recom- — 
mended him moderation in intellectual labour, bodily exercise, and 
change of air. 7 
The deaths among botanists have been unusually numerous of late. 
M. Adrien de Jussieu. 
* Paris, July 5.—1t is my painful duty to announce the death of M. 
Adrien de Jussieu. Although M. de Jussieu's bodily constitution did 
not lead me to expect that the illustrious savan¿ would enjoy a long life, 
yet his decease was not the less felt by all. Last Friday, July 1, his 
numerous friends and pupils attended his funeral. M. Fortoul, Mini- 
ster of Public Instruction, was present at the ceremony. Sweden was 
represented by the great Algologist, M. Agardh, who happened to be 
here. M. Brongniart paid the deceased the last honour, in the name of 
the Institute; M. Duméril, who was already member of the Institute - 
when Jussieu was a boy, in the name of the Museum; M. Milne- 
Edwards, in the name of the Faculté des Sciences; and M. Decaisne, — 
in the name of the Société Agricole. The same gentlemen, in giving - : 
brief sketehes of Jussieu's life, dwelt upon the eminent services which 
he rendered to science. M. A. de Jussieu died on the 29th of June, 
1853, aged fifty-six years. He leaves no male heirs, so that the family, 
which, during more than a century, has been the ornament of science, 
will become extinct with him. His mother, who is eighty years old, = 
and at this advanced age is still able to discharge all her domestic 
duties, has to mourn the loss of this her only son,”—Bonplandia, July — — 
15, 1853.. 
