OBITUAKY. 



THE year 1887 has been most fatal to the ranks of Botanists ; 

 and many of the best known, whose names have been even 

 as " household words " to us of the younger generation, have 

 passed away during the year. Even confining the roll to the best 

 known names it is a heavy one : In January Dr. CM. Van der 

 Sande Lacoste, the bryologist, and Thomas Moore, for many 

 years the well-known Superintendent of the Chelsea Gardens ; in 

 March Prof. Eichler of Berlin, one of the leading morphologists 

 of the past two decades, aged 47, Prof. D.F. Didrichsen of Copen- 

 hagen, aged 73, and Prof. JJ.Kickx, the author of a valuable 

 Cryptogamic Flora of Belgium ; in May Prof. Areschoug, one of 

 the leaders in algology, aged 75, the renowned J.B. Boussingault, 

 the agricultural chemist, aged 85, and Ritter Wawra von Fernsee, 

 the Austrian botanist and traveller, aged 57 ; in July Dr. H. T \V. 

 Ravenel, one of the pioneers of the study of the Fungi of the U. 

 S.A. ; in i\ugust Dr. George Winter, the author of exceedingly 

 valuable works on the Fungi, chiefly of Central Europe, after a 

 tedious and painful illness, aged 41 ; in September Prof. R. 

 Caspary, the author of valuable works on systematic botany of 

 Phanerogams ; and Prof. H. Lojka, the lichenologist ; in October 

 Prof. L. Cienkowsky, well-known for his researches among the 

 lower forms of animal and vegetable organisms, and Dr. G. In- 

 zenga, author of works on the Cryptogamic Botany of Italy ; and 

 in December Prof. Asa Gray of Harvard University, Boston, U.S. 

 A., and Prof. Alexander Dickson of the University of Edinburgh. 

 To this long list have been added, since the beginning of the: 

 present year the names of Prof. Anton De Bary of Strassburg 



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