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Among new books are to be especially noticed the second volnnie 

 (coinpletino- the work) of M. C. Cooke's ' Handbook of British Funoi ' 

 (MacniiUan), the second volume of the ' Flora of Tropical Africa,' by- 

 Prof. Oliver, Drs. Hooker,' Masters, and others, containing the Orders 

 Leguniinosee to Ficoidese (Reeve and Co.); 'Domestic Botany,' by 

 J. Smith, of Kew (Reeve and Co.); a new edition of Prof. Balfour's 

 ' Flora of Edinbnrgli ' (A. and C. Black) ; and a German translation of 

 Johnson's 'How Crops Grow.' 



Mr. Carruthers, P'.R.S., has been appointed consulting botanist to the 

 Royal Agricultural Society, — a new office. 



Dr. August Ncih'eich, a well-known Austrian botanist, died at Vienna 

 on June 1st, at the aae of fifty-eight. He possessed an extensive and 

 critical knowledge of the botany of the Austrian empire, and was the 

 author of a ' Flora of Vienna ' (1846), a ' Flora of Lower Austria ' (1858, 

 with supplements in 1866 and 1869), and very numerous papers in the 

 Viennese scientific journals. His name is preserved in Feuzl's genus of 

 Composite, Nellreichia, and in Seiiiperviviim Neilreichii, Schott, and other 

 species. 



In the person of Dr. Paul Rohrbach, who died on June 3rd, at Berlin, 

 before the completion of his twenty-fifth year, one of the most promising 

 of the younger botanists of Germany has been lost to science. He had 

 devoted his attention largely to the Caryophyllncere, and his excellent mono- 

 graph of the genus Sllfm was noticed in our volume for 1868 (p. 378). He 

 published several useful papers in the ' Linnsea ' and ' Botanische Zeitung,' 

 and a monograph of the European species of Typlia in the last volume of 

 the Brandenburg Transactions. At the time of his premature death he 

 was at work on the Caryopliyllaceoi and Typhacea: for the ' Flora Brasi- 

 liensis.' 



We regret to have also to record the death of Dr. Julius Milde, which 

 occurred suddenly, on July 3rd, at ]\Ierau, whither he liad gone for the 

 benefit of his health. He is perhaps best known by his useful ' Filices 

 Europae et Atlantidis, Asife Minoris et Siberiae,' published in 1867, and 

 his monograph of all known Equisetums in the 'Nova Acta;' but he 

 wrote very numerous papers on the higher Cryptogams and Mosses in 

 German periodical and transactions, and has contributed a paper on the 

 geographical distribution of the Eqnisdaceae to this Journal (see Vol. I. 

 p. 32), as well as some shorter notes. His extensive herbaria of European 

 Mosses, of Exotic Ferns, and of Duplicate Mosses are for sale at Messrs. 

 Limpricht, in Breslau. 



Professor Henri Lecoq, of Clermont, a man of very varied and exten- 

 sive knowledge, has also died quite recently, in his seventieth year. He 

 was the author of numerous treatises on physical geography, general 

 botany, horticulture, and geology, and of an elaborate work, in nine 

 volumes, on the Botanical Geography of Central Europe (1854-58), 

 which is too -little known in this country. He has left to the town of 

 Clermont liis extensive collections of all kinds. 



Communications have been received from : — W. Carruthers, J. Sadler, 

 Prof. Tliiselton Dyer, Dr. Braithwaite, J. F. Duliiie, W. Phillips, W. G. 

 Smith, R. Tucker,' J. C. MelvilJ, etc. 



