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(1870), of the genus Lespedeza (1873)/ of the Spirccacece (1879), 

 and of Coriaria, Ilex, etc.. (1881) ; also a series of twenty papers 

 entitled Diagnoses Plantarum Novarum Japonioi et Mandshurice 

 (1866-187(3), and another series entitled Diagnoses Plantarum 

 Novarum Aslaticarum (1877-1890). In 1873 he visited Finland 

 and Sweden, especially to consult the herbarium of Thunberg at 

 Upsal, and most of the summer of 1875 was spent in a A-isit to 

 Scotland, Kew, Paris, and Germany. At about this time he was 

 also expending much critical labor ujDon Japanese plants in aid 

 of Franchet and Savatier in the preparation of their Enumeratio 

 Plantarwn Japonlcarum, which owes its value verj largely to this 

 co-operation. 



The last ten years of his life were occupied chiefly in the study 

 of large and important collections from the previously almost 

 inaccessible regions of Central Asia, especially those of Przewalski 

 and Potanin from Tangout (Northern Tibet) and Mongolia, and in 

 the elaboration of an extended report which was to be illustrated 

 with a hundred or more finely engraved plates. Much of this was 

 completed and ready for the press, but only the first parts are as 

 yet published. The general results, as showing the characteristics 

 of the flora of the region, were ably summarized by him in a paper 

 read before the Botanical and Horticultural Congress held at St. 

 Petersburg in 1884. To the great loss of botanical science he was 

 cut off most unexpectedly in the midst of his labors, dying on 

 February 16, 1891, of an attack of influenza, after a short illness. 



The work of Maximowicz, as a botanist, is remarkable through- 

 out for its extreme thoroughness and most scrupulous exactness in 

 all its details, for good judgment and a purely scientific spirit, 

 and he must always rank as a high authority in the department to 

 which he devoted himself. As a man he was most estimable, of 

 noble and spotless character, a scholar of high culture, and a most 

 courteous and genial correspondent. 



KARL WILHELM VON NAEGELL 



Karl Wiliiklm von Naegeli was born on March 27, 1817, at 

 Kilchberg, near Zurich, and died at Munich, May 10, 1S91. His 

 education, begun in a private school at Zurich, was continued in 

 the Gymnasium of that city until he entered the University of 

 Zurich, where he received his doctor's degree in 1840. JI(> had 

 at first intended to study medicine, but his taste for natural science 



