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crossed the hill country to the Carisa plain. The region between 

 Santa Maria and Point Sal also received attention. 



Mr. J. B. Lambert, who has for several years past been a resi- 

 dent naturalist in the Yosemite region of the Sierras, was found 

 dead in his cabin on the Merced River, early last spring. Mr. Lem- 

 bert was scarcely known personally to Californian botanists, but he 

 had sent some interesting bundles of plants of his region to our 

 University in the last five years. Senecio Lemberti, Greene, was 

 named in his honor. 



Mr. A. J. McClatchie made a wagon collecting trip from Pasa- 

 dena to San Diego during the summer. Smith Mountain, San 

 Diego County, was visited and a number of characteristic High 

 Sierra plants weru collected there. 



Numerous minor and local collections have been made by these 

 and other botanists during the year, some of which have been 

 currently reported in Erythea. — W. L. J. 



BIOGRAPHICAL NOTICES. 



Dr. Henry Trimen, until quite recently Director of the Royal 

 Botanic Gardens of Ceylon, died at Peradeniya, Ceylon, on Octo- 

 ber 16, in his fifty-third year. 



Up to the time of his death. Dr. Trimen had been diligently at 

 work upon his " Handbook of the Flora of Ceylon," of which three 

 parts have been published, bringing the work down to the Balano- 

 phoracese, and which he had nearly completed. He was joint author 

 with Dr. W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, of the " Flora of Middlesex," pub- 

 lished in 1896, generally considered the most complete work of its 

 kind, and an excellent model for a county flora. His name is esi^e- 

 ciallywell known as associated with that of Professor Bentleyin the 

 preparation of their important book, " Medicinal Plants," published 

 in 1880. From 1870 to 1879 Trimen edited the Journal of Botany, 

 of which Mr. James Britten now has charge. 



The death is announced of Auguste Trecul, at an advanced age. 

 Trecul was a member of the French Academy, and was principally 

 celebrated as a plant anatomist, though he also gave some attention 



