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of the current year, whicli ended his life almost instantaneously. 

 His funeral took place in the Protestant cemetery outside the 

 Porta Eomana, and his body was followed to the final resting 

 place by a large concourse of sorrowing friends. 



Cael JoHAisins' VON Maximowicz was born at Tula in 1827, but at 

 an early age went to St. Petersburg, where he received his chief 

 education at a Lutheran college. The year 1844 saw his removal 

 to Dorpat, and, after completing his studies at that place, he was 

 appointed assistant to the director of the botanic garden there, 

 at that time Alexander von Bunge, whose recent loss we have 

 also to-day to deplore. Here he stayed eight years, and then he 

 was transferred to St. Petersburg as Conservator of the Imperial 

 Botanic Garden, and the year after he was appointed to the 

 ' Diana,' commissioned to procure plants iu a living state for the 

 gardens under his charge. The vessel sailed westward and 

 touched at Eio, Valparaiso, and Honolulu, when the outbreak of 

 the Crimean war forced the Eussian frigate to shelter on the 

 coast of Manchuria. Maximowicz here quitted the vessel in 

 order to explore the country lying on both sides of the river 

 Amur, and, after suffering much privation and many difficulties 

 (due in great measure to his scanty resources), he succeeded in 

 getting home by way of Siberia. 



The first results of this journey were issued by Euprecht in 

 the ' Bulletin physico-mathematique de I'Academie Imperiale de 

 St. Petersbourg ' ; but two years having been devoted by the 

 explorer himself to the working up of his collections, he produced 

 in 1859 his important work, " Primitise PlorsB Amurensis ; Ver- 

 such einer Plora Amurlandes," in the ninth volume of the ' Me- 

 moires des Savants Etrangers ' of the Academy. The high 

 character of the work here j)ublished was consistently maintained 

 by Maximowicz in all his subsequent labours ; to him we owe 

 important contributions to our knowledge of the vegetation of 

 the far east of Asia, monographs on the Ehamnaceae, the Hy- 

 drangeas, and the Ehododendrons of the region, and numerous 

 detached j)apers in the ' Bulletin ' of the St. Petersburg Academy, 

 which were re-issued in the ' Melanges Biologiques ' of that 

 body. Much of the material for these labours was got together 

 in his second visit to the East, where, from 1859 to 1864, 

 he travelled through Manchuria and Japan, returning this 

 time by sea and visiting England on his way home. He was 

 then suffering from the remnants of a fever taken in Japan, from 

 which he was never afterwards entirely free. 



Eegarded, and rightly so, as the highest authority on the flora 

 of that part of the Eussian dominions, he had the collections of 

 later travellers, such as Prjevalsky, Potanin, and others, passing 

 through his hands. The stress of official duties prevented his 

 finishing some of the work which he had in hand, and there does 



