24 NOTICES OF SERIALS. 



Thomson) On Enkyanthus Hiraalaicus and Cassiope selaginoides, two new species of 

 Himalayan Ericeae with two plates. Botanical Information Note on the Vege- 

 tation of Rangoon, in a letter from Dr. M'Clelland, dated May 31, 1854. Notices 

 of Books Bryologia Javanica ; List of British Mosses. 



No. 76, May : Kew Garden Museum, or an Account of the Origin, and some 

 of the Contents, of the Museum of Economic Botany attached to the Royal 

 Gardens of Kew, by Sir W. J. Hooker continued from page 114 ; Biographical 

 Account of M. Andrien de Jussieu, by M. J. Decaisne, extracted from the 

 "Memoirs of the Imperial Agricultural Society of France" for the year 1854. This 

 celebrated botanist was born, at the Museum, on the 23rd December, 1797. He 

 completed his medical studies in 1824 ; and his thesis on this occasion was on the 

 " Euphorbiacese." In 1826 his father retired from the Professorship of Botany, 

 and the assembled professors of the Museum nominated his son to the Professorship 

 of Rural Botany, in this year. In 1 843 he gave to the world his crowning perfor- 

 mance as an author viz., u The Monograph of the Malpighiaceae" on which he 

 laboured for fourteen successive years, and this work alone would have been suffi- 

 cient to have established its author's reputation. Report of a Journey of Discovery 

 into the Interior of Western Australia, between 8th September, 1848, and 3rd 

 February, 1849, by J. S. Roe continued from vol. vi., p. 380. Botanical Infor- 

 mation The Voyage of H.M.S. Herald, being an extract of a letter from Mr. 

 Milne, dated Island of Janna, New Hebrides, December 4, 1854. Notices of 

 Books (William Wilson) Bryologia Britannica; (Dr. Asa Gray) Plantae novae 

 Thuberianse. 



No. 77, June : (James Motley) Notes on Sumatra ; (M. J. Decaisne) Bio- 

 graphical Account of M. Andrien de Jussieu, extracted from the "Memoirs of the 

 Imperial Agricultural Society of France" for the year 1854. Of this lamented 

 botanist, M. Decaisne says " Nature had endowed him with those qualities which 

 give grace to superior talents, and deprive them of the tendency to excite envy ; his 

 disposition was benevolent and gentle, yet firm ; his heart was warm, and his af- 

 fections susceptible. In general appearance he was far from striking, and his 

 rather peculiar countenance was less engaging than might have been expected, ow- 

 ing to the smallness of his eyes ; while his own timidity prevented others from feeling, 

 at fiVst, quite at ease in his society ; but he no sooner began to speak than this im- 

 pression vanished ; his animated, witty, full, and kindly conversation, graced with 

 striking and amusing anecdotes, quickly did the speaker justice, and conveyed such 

 an impression as was never erased from the hearer's mind ; he was singularly devoid 

 of ambition ; he cultivated botany with great success, and to his own unfading 

 honour true ; but he did so for its own sake, because he loved the science, and be- 

 cause his fathers had loved it before him. Fame and high office came to him un- 

 sought. The desire for notoriety, which rarely repays the anxiety it occasions, never 

 agitated him ; he belonged to that body of learned men who confine their activity 

 and their desires to the promotion of useful labours. " M. Jussieu died on the 

 29th of June, 1853. (George Bentham) Additional Note on Arachis hypogsea ; 

 The Government Botanist's Report of his journey from Melbourne to Omeo in the 

 Australian Alps, dated Omeo, 16th December, 1854. The highest portion of the 

 mountain range descended by Fred Mueller appears to be about 7,000 feet above sea 

 level. Botanical Information Charles Andreas Geyer ; On Beech Oil, by W. E. 

 G. Seeman ; The Ferns of Wales, by Edward Young. Notices of New Books. 



