BOTANICAL NEWS. 63 



The murder is announced of Dr. Maingay, Superintendent, of the jail at 

 Rangoon, who was shot down in the attempt to stop a mutiny amongst the 

 convicts there. He graduated in medicine at Edinburgh in 1858, and was then 

 much interested in Cryptogamic Botany. When serving with the cavalry under 

 Sir Hope Grant, in tlie last Chinese war, he collected many plants in North 

 China, and at the time of his death, was engaged in investigating the Flora of 

 Burmah. 



The Rev. J. M. Crombie, whose ' Lichenes Britannici' is noticed in our pages, 

 is actively engaged in re-arranging the extensive collection of British Lichens 

 in the British Museum ; and some notes on the critical species will appear in 

 this Journal at intervals. 



The great library of the late Dr. C. H. Ph. von Martius will be sold by pub- 

 lic auction by T. O. Weigel at Leipzig, on the 7th March and following days ; 

 catalogues can be had at Asher and Co.'s, 15, Bedford Street, Covent Grarden. 



The " Societas Itineraria Cry ptogamica," of which Professor Schimper, of 

 Strasburg, is President, has engaged Professor Zetterstedt, of Joukijping, and 

 another Swedish botanist, to explore the Dovrefjeld and other mountainous 

 parts of Scandinavia during the coming summer, with the object of collecting 

 Mosses, Lichens, and the rarer Phanerogams. Tlie expenses of the joui'uey ai-e 

 estimated at about £60 ; and to cover this, 60 subscribers of £1 each are re- 

 quired. Each subscriber will receive at least 300 species of plants. Subscrip- 

 tions, which should be paid before the end of April, may be sent to Dr, James 

 Stirton, 15, Newton Street, Glasgow. 



Journalists have seldom the opportunity of recording the public recognition 

 of unobtrusive, persevering, and important labours in science. Such a case we 

 have in tlie recent presentation of a handsome testimonial to Professor Morris. 

 His published memoirs give him rank among the leading founders and pro- 

 moters of the science, and his ' Critical Catalogue of British Fossils' gave a new 

 impulse to Palaeontology, and has formed a starting-point for every subsequent 

 investigator, but even tliese labours are greatly surpassed by the verbal in- 

 formation and advice always frankly given to investigators, derived from his 

 extensive field knowledge, his acquaintance with the literature of Geology 

 and Palaeontology, and his familiarity with cabinet specimens of rocks and 

 fossils. 



We have to record the death of Mr. John E. Sowerby, the illustrator of Mr. 

 Syme's new edition of ' English Botany,' and of other similar works. 



We are also informed tliat the author of 'Darwinism Examined by a Gra- 

 duate of the University of Cambridge' has recently died. He was a member of 

 one of the great Yorkshire families, and unmanned. At the time of his deatli 

 he was preimring the third edition of his book for tlie press. 



Few of our readers are probably aware that M. Raspail, who has lately 

 figured so prominently as a political agitator in France, is the same as tlio 

 botanist who has written extensively on botanical, agricultural, and cliemical 

 subjects. 



We have been pleased to receive as a reprint, from Median's ' Gardener's 

 Monthly,' Mr. James's edition of Pursh's quaint account of his Tour through 



