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on tlie breaking up of Deighton, Bell, & Co. In 1863 they 

 received the similar appointment at Oxford. Kivingtons were 

 so much annoyed at this 'intrusion,' that they carried the war 

 into the enemy's country by opening a shop at Cambridge. 



The overwork of his early years told on Macmillan's health ; and 

 though he was able subsequently to assign much of the business 

 routine to others, he probably never quite recovered from the 

 effects of it. He was a popular guest at many of the Cambridge 

 colleges ; and being an enthusiastic Scotch metaphysician, used, 

 in the period 1855-65, to reproach the Pellows with their devotion 

 to classics and mathematics, instead of his own special delight. 

 ' Macmillan's Magazine ' was started in 1859, and ' Nature ' in 

 1869. One admirable bibliographic item must not be forgotten, 

 that on the back of their titlepages the present custom of the firm 

 is to give full particulars of the issues of the book in question. A 

 complete Catalogue of the publications of the house was issued in 

 1891, and forms an imposing testimony to the enterprise of the firm. 



Mr. Macmillan died after a few days' illness on 25th Jauuar}'', 

 1896, aged 77. He was elected into the Linnean Society, 18th 

 January, 1875. 



Dn. Jean Mitellee, known to the botanical world as " Muell. 

 Arg.," was born 9tli May, 1828, at Teuf enthal, in Canton Aargau, 

 whence he drew his distinctive name. His parents were simple 

 country-folk ; and his early years were spent in a struggle for 

 existence and education. When 14 years of age he entered the 

 secondary school of Eeinach from the elementary one of his own 

 village. Three years later, in 1846, he went to the Gymnasium, 

 and thence to the industrial school of Aarau. During the 

 last two years he was at Aarau he took up the study of Botauy. 

 Intending to become a school-teacher, in 1853 he went to Geneva, 

 especially working at mathematics ; but in the year following, 

 the post of curator in DeCandoUe's herbarium being vacant, it was 

 offered to Mueller, and eagerly accepted. 



In the spring of 1851 he went with Duby to the South of 

 France, and in the same year with Boissier to the Tyrol ; in 1852 

 to the plains of Northern Italy. These were practically the whole 

 of his botanical travels ; for he found his hands full in his daily 

 duties, arranging and studying the herbarium under his care. 



His first important work was his admirable ' Monographie de 

 la famille des Hesedacees,' which, was awarded the quinquennial 

 prize, founded by the elder DeCandolle. The University of 

 Ziirich conferred the degree of Ph.D. for this production. 



His nest occupation was with the Apocynacese, of wbich he pub- 

 lished a preliminary survey in 1860 in ' Linnaea,' followed by the 

 working up of the Brazilian species in Martius's 'Flora Brasili- 

 ensis,' vol. vi. pars 1, in the same year. Three years later he gave, 

 also in ' Linnsea,' the draft of bis monograph of the Euphorbiacese, 

 which forms the bulkiest volume in the whole of the DeCandolles' 

 ' Prodromus.' 



