320 NATURAL SCIENCE. April, 1893. 



ITTE learn with regret that Professor Karl Prantl died on February 

 W 24, at Breslau, where he was Professor of Botany and 

 Director of the Botanical Gardens. He is, perhaps, best known in this 

 country for his " Lehrbuch," of which an edited translation by 

 Professor Vines has been widely used among students, who, while in 

 need of a modern text-book, found that of Sachs somewhat too 

 ponderous. He was also joint editor, with Professor Engler, of the 

 valuable " Pflanzenfamilien," still in progress of issue, and sole editor of 

 Hedii'igia, the organ of those who love mosses. Professor Prantl was 

 also the author of some Researches on the Morphology of Vascular 

 Cryptogams, and an " Exkursionsflora fur das konigreich Bayern." 

 Last year he started a new publication, entitled " Arbeiten aus dem 

 Kon. Bot. Garten zu Breslau." 



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EVONSHIRE has lost an enthusiastic and observant naturahst in 

 the person of Edward Parfitt. Born near Norwich in 1820, the son 

 of a gardener, he had from his earliest youth a passion for studying life 

 of all kinds, which led him to go to sea in order to get some acquain- 

 tance with foreign animals. Wrecked near the Cape, he was obliged 

 to make a long stay which increased his taste for Botany and Ento- 

 mology, and allowed him to make a collection. On his return to 

 England he devoted himself to Horticulture, and went to Devon 

 about 1846. Since then Parfitt worked on the Natural History of the 

 County, published numerous local papers, and has left a MS. on the 

 Devon Fungi in 12 volumes, illustrated by 1530 plates, drawn and 

 painted by himself. He was Librarian to the Devon and Exeter 

 Institution for 32 years. Parfitt was entirely a self-made man, and 

 Devon has lost a naturahst she could ill spare. He died on January 15. 



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