28— BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
than he who is carried off by a bullet, not rarely to serve the schemes 
of ambition and covetousness.” 
No less just is a tribute paid to the merits of N. B. Ward, Esq., 
for the important services he has rendered to botany and horticulture. 
We find it in a letter from Professor Mirbel to Dr. Wallich :— 
“La serre de voyage que vous avez bien voulu nous adresser, m’a 
été remise, et j'ai vu avec autant d’admiration que de plaisir, que les 
quinze espèces qu'elle contenait, étaient aussi saines que nos plantes 
de sérre, quand, à la belle saison, nous les retirons de leur prison pou 
les exposer à la bienfaisante influence de Pair libre. On devait éleve 
une statue à l'inventeur de ce procédé. On en élève à des gens qui 
font plus de bruit, mais moins de bien.” 
RR Sale of Nees von Esenbeck’s Library and Herbarium. 
Professor Nees von Esenbeck has lately published a catalogue of his 
Library, from the preface of which the following is an extract :— 
“I am," says the author, “without property: my Library and m 
Herbarium are all I possess, all I am able to leave to my family. lu. 
my career as a medical man, I have always considered the interests of. 
the suffering poor as of primary, my own of secondary importance ; an 
.. being devoted to scientific pursuits, I did not obtain a lucrative, certainly | 
. never an extensive, practice. A small estate, inherited from a relation, 
.. afforded for some years the means and leisure for cultivating science suc- 
. eessfully ; but, during the French wars, my property became untenable, M 
and I was induced to accept a professorship at Erlangen and the 
Presidency of the Imperial Academy of Naturalists. Having 6x- - 
changed Erlangen for Bonn, and thus settled in Prussia, it became à 
question whether the Academy should have its seat in Bavaria, beca 
my predecessor resided in Erlangen when the German Empire was di 
solved, or whether it should retain its position as a national institution 
_ for the whole of Germany. The negotiations which followed ended by 
the Academy retaining its independence, and, as far as circumstances 
would permit, its position in regard to the Confederation. By my exer- 
ions the institution obtained a confirmation of its old statutes, and 
during its stay in Prussia, an annual grant of 1,200 thalers. — Since 
E 1818 I have constantly laboured in restoring this ancient institution, 
and discharging my duties as professor in the University ; indeed, my 
