252 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
Dr. and Professor Walpers. 
This laborious botanist, best known by his ‘Repertorium Botani- 
con’ and ‘Annales Botanic,’ useful compilations destined to record 
all plants recently published, is said to have died by his own hands in 
Germany ; and even to have written a letter previously to the event, to 
Reichenbach and other friends, to inform them that he was dissatisfied 
with the world, who would not recognize his merits, and place him in 
a position to which he considered himself entitled, and was therefore 
going to destroy himself. Dr. Petermann, of Leipzig, it is understood, 
will probably continue the ‘Annales,’ or carry on some work of the kind. 
John Carne Bidwill, Esq. 
We have with great regret to record the death of this amiable gen- 
tleman, son of Jas. G. Bidwill, Esq., merchant, of Exeter; a distin- 
~ guished and successful scientific cultivator, botanist, and traveller. 
For many years he has communicated to our Gardens and our Her- 
baria numerous rare plants of New Zealand and Australia. Latterly 
he was appointed Commissioner of Crown Lands at the Wide Bay dis- — 
trict, Australia, where his duties were not a little onerous, but where 
he nevertheless found time to gratify his taste for botany and zoology- 
From North-east Australia he introduced to our Gardens living plants 
of the Bunnya-Bunnya (Araucaria Bidwilli, Hook.), and roots of the 
magnificent Nymphaea gigantea, Hook. Between two and three years 
since, while laying out a new road between the district of Wide Bay 
and that of Moreton Bay he was separated, without a compass, from 
his party, and was eight days in the bush without food, cutting his way 
with a small pocket-hook through the parasitical entanglements of the 
scrub, The exertion superinduced inflammation of the kidney, of 
which he eventually died (March lst, at Tinana, in his thirty-eighth 
year), after protracted and most acutely painful suffering. He was 
Chairman of the Bench of Magistrates of the Wide Bay district, and 
in every relation of life was much endeared to a large circle of friends 
' in Europe and in Australia. 
Specimens of Australian Alge. 
- Dr. Harvey, of Trinity College, Dublin, being about to visit Austra- 
lia, under the joint auspices of the University and of the Royal Dublin 
