136 KOTANICAL NEWS. 



PERSONAL NOTICES. 



We regret to have to record the death, on February 13, at Gratz, of Dr. Frank 

 Uuger, the well-known Viennese botanist and palaeontologist. He was found 

 lying on the iloor of his bedroom, and the mode of his death would have been 

 unknown had not the steps necessary for the removal of his brain, which he 

 had directed should be preserved, revealed a fracture of the skull ; this injury, 

 together with the fact that his chest of drawers had been forced open, and his 

 papers overhauled, leads to the inference that he was robbed and murdered, 

 though suspicion at present attaches to no one. 



We have to announce the death of Dr. Lcveille in his 73rd year. He was 

 well known as a cryptogamist, and had paid special attention to Fungi. 



The herbarium of the late Von Martins, which was oiFered to, and refused 

 by, the Bavarian Government, is still for disposal. It consists 1st, of the 

 general herbarium, containing 60,000 species, represented by 300,000 specimens, 

 nearly half of which are Brazilian ; 2nd, of the great collection of Palms ; 3rd, 

 a collection of fruits and seeds ; 4th, a series of woods ; 5th, a collection of 

 drugs and economic specimens, in great part formed by his brother, Theodore 

 Martins, Professor of Pharmacy at Erlangen. 



Bi'itish botany has been publicly honoured in the bestowal of the degree of 

 LL.D. on Mr. John Boswell-Syme, of Balniuto, by the University of St. An- 

 drew's. Professor Swan, to whom we are indebted for this welcome intelligence, 

 thus describes Mr. Boswell-Syme's claims to distinction : — " Mr. Syme is the 

 author of many scientific memoirs on botany and entomology, and the third 

 edition of Sowerby's ' English Botany,' of which nine volumes have already 

 appeared. The multitude of original observations embodied in that great 

 work, and his other contributions to botanical science, have earned for Mr. Syme 

 a first place among British botanists." 



Dr. Hegelmaier, of Tiibingen, is now in England for the purpose of supple- 

 menting his monographs on Lemnacece and Callitriche by examining the her- 

 baria at Kew, the British Museum, and elsewhere. 



The chair of Natviral History in the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester, 

 lately made vacant by Professor Thiselton-Dyer's removal to Dublin, has been 

 filled by the appointment of Dr. W. R. M'Nab, of Edinburgh. 



Notices to Coreespondents. — In order to meet the heavy demands made 

 on our space, we are this month compelled to give an extra lialf-sheet (8 pages). 

 The assistance we have received in an increased number of Subscribers, and in 

 other ways, has been sufficient to encoui'age us to trust that the additional ex- 

 pense involved will be met by corresponding support. 



Communications have been received from : — W. G. Smith, Dr. Hance, Dr. 

 Carrington, Dr. Braithwaite, Rev. J. M. Crombie, Professor Thiselton-Dyer, 

 Ralph Tate, James Britten, J. Sadler, Dr. H. Cleghorn, Robert Tucker, Fred. 

 Stratton, Hon. J. L. Warren, James Collins, Charles Bailey, Dr. Masters, C. P. 

 Hobkirk, W. Carruthers, G. C. Churchill, A. Braun, F. Hegelmaier. 



Books, etc.. Received. — Contributions to Botany, vol. ii. ; by John Miers. 

 Note sur les formes du genre Capsella ; par C. P. Hobkirk. — Pflanzenstoffe ; 

 von A. and Th. Husemann. — Report on tlie Vegetation of the Andaman Islands; 

 by S. Kurz. — Principios pai'a la Materia Medica del Pais ; por Jose M. Benites. 

 — Amadeo Bonplaud ; por A. Ernst. — Nature, Nos. 15>-21. — Science Gossip 

 for March.— Gardener's Chronicle, Nos. 10-13. 



