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specimens of useful and interesting plants, unfettered by- 

 mere personal or even national considerations, are most 

 worthy of emulation. California owes an especial debt of 

 gratitude to Baron Mueller for the introduction of the Salt- 

 bush (Atriplex semibaccatum ) and several valuable species 

 of Eucalyptus and Acacia. Furthermore be it 



Resolved: That a copy of these resolutions, signed 

 by the President and Secretary of the Section, be of- 

 fered to the Editor of ErTjfliea for publication, and that 

 another copy thereof be forwarded, by the Secretary of the 

 Section, to the government of Victoria. 



MISCELLANEOUS NOTES AND NEWS. 



The Gardeners' Chronicle records the death, on August 

 10th, of Nicholas Funck of Luxembourg at an advanced age. 

 In 1835, Funck started with Linden on his explorations in 

 tropical America, in search of natural history objects. 

 Large collections of specimens, zoological and botanical, 

 were sent home, some of which are not even yet elaborated, 

 They afterwards explored some of the West India Islands, 

 Mexico and Northern Guatemala. 



Mr. Marshall A. Howe is at the herbarium of Columbia 

 University, N. Y., working up his Californian collections of 

 Hepaticee. 



It is with great regret, that we learn by telegraph of the 

 death on October 9, of Sir Ferdinand Baron von Mueller 

 Government Botanist of Victoria. We hope to print a notice 

 of the Baron's life and work in our next issue. 



Another issue of Prof. Greene's Pittonia has reached 

 us, being Part 14, or pp. 33-90 of Vol. iii. This Part con- 

 tains Critical Notes on Certain Violets, Studies in the Com- 

 positse, iii. New or Noteworthy Species, xvi, by Prof. Greene, 

 and Economic Botany of S. E. Alaska, by W. J. Gorman. 



