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Among our Foreign Members, the Society and the scientific world 

 have sustained a severe loss by the death of 



Stephan Ladislaus Endlicher, Professor of Botany in the Univer- 

 sity of Vienna, and Director of the Botanic Garden of that city. He 

 was born at Presburg on the 24th of June 1804, and there acquired 

 his school education. His higher studies M'ere pursued partly at 

 Pesth and partly at Vienna, where in 1823 he became a pupil of the 

 Archiepiscopal Seminary, being then destined for the church. But 

 after the completion of his theological education, and when he had 

 already taken the minor orders, family circumstances determined 

 him to re-enter the secular state in 1826. Two years afterwards he 

 was attached to the Imperial Library at Vienna, and the circum- 

 stances of his parents placed him in a state of easy independence. 

 From the time of his quitting the ecclesiastical profession he devoted 

 himself enthusiastically to the study of natural history, and more 

 especially of botany, and to that of the languages of Eastern Asia, 

 particularly Chinese. In botany he soon acquired so distinguished 

 a reputation as to mark him out for the Keepership of the Herbarium 

 in the Imperial Cabinet of Natural History; and in 1840, on the 

 death of Baron Jacquin, he became Professor of Botany and Director 

 of the Botanic Garden, which establishment he exerted himself 

 greatly to reorganize and improve. The following is a Catalogue of 

 his botanical writings : — 



Flora Posoniensis, Pesth, 1830. 



Ceratotheca, eine Neue Pflanzengattung (from the Linnsea), Berl. 

 1832. 



Meletemata Botanica, Vienna, 1832, published in conjunction with 

 Schott, and limited to sixty copies. 



Atakta Botanica, Pars I., Vienna, 1833. 



Prodromus Florae Norfolkicse, Vienna, 1833. 



Sertum Cabulicum, Vienna, 1836, in conjunction with Fenzl. 



Grundzijge einer neuen Theorie der Pflanzenzeugung, Vienna, 

 1838. 



Genera Plantarum secundum Ordines Naturales disposita, Vienna, 

 1836-40 ; with two Mantissse, 1842, 1843, and a Supplement, 1847. 



Iconographia Generum Plantarum, Vienna, 1838. 



Stirpium Novarum Decades 1-10, Vienna, 1839, in conjunction 

 with A. Gray, Putterlick and Reisseck. 



Caroli Linnsei Epistolse ad Nic. Jos. Jacquin, Vienna, 1841, pub. 

 lished in connexion with Schreibers. 



Enchiridion Botanicum, Leipz. 1841. 



Catalogus Horti Academici Vindobonensis, Vienna, 1842. 

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