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and New York. He was born at Eadnor, near Philadelphia, 

 on September 1st, 1803. He is described in Silliman's Journal for 

 March as a "kindly, simple-hearted, devout gentleman, admh'able 

 in every relation of life." 



Paul Gunther Lorentz was born in Kahla, in the Duchy of 

 Sachsen-Altenbm^g, on August 30th, 1835. At an early age he 

 showed a strong bent towards biological studies, and after a year 

 si)ent with a Hamburg apothecary he returned home in 1852. 

 After several years' i)reparation for the Church he submitted him- 

 self to the Consistory at Altenburg for examination, but here 

 he took a new departure. During his career he had come into 

 contact with Schleiden and Schnizlein, and had taken many 

 scientific journeys into the Julian Alps and elsewhere. He now 

 applied himself diligently to botanical study at Munich, became 

 assistant to Naegeli, and took his Doctor's degree there in 1860. 

 Devoting himself to Mosses, he published several papers on that 

 branch, which are set forth in the memoir in the ' Botanisches 

 Centralblatt ' (see p. 157), from which this notice is mainly taken. 

 In 1869 he accepted the Chair of Botany at Cordoba, in the Argen- 

 tine Kepublic. In 1871 he started on an expedition into the 

 interior, from which he returned, in 1872, richly laden. The 

 IDhanerogams were sent to Grisebach, Lorentz only reserving the 

 mosses and lichens for his ow^n elaboration. He again set out in 

 search of plants in the autumn of the same year, returning after 

 sixteen months' absence ; from this journey he sent two thousand 

 plants to Grisebach, the lichens to Krempelhuber, and the 

 HepaticcEi to Carl Mueller. He had not confined his attention 

 to botany, but brought back with him two thousand specimens for 

 the zoological museum at Cordoba. Dissatisfied with the state of 

 things prevailing at the university, he began his lectures in 1874, 

 with some short comments on the authorities, resulting in his 

 dismissal from his post. Whilst planning another journey he was 

 seized with smallpox ; after his tedious recovery, being offered the 

 Professorship of Natural Science at Concepcion, in Uruguay, he 

 thankfully accepted it. He spent six years in this town, describing 

 it as a life-in-death sort of existence, varied by an occasional 

 excursion for plants. He died on October 6th, 1881, after three 

 weeks' illness of inflammation of the liver. His principal works 

 were ' Vegetations-Verhaeltniss der Argentinischen Republik ' (1876), 

 and ' La Vegetation del Nordeste de la prov. de Entre Rios ' (1878), 

 both published at Buenos Ayres : he also published numerous 

 papers upon Mosses. Sets of his plants w^ere issued. 



Although at a somewhat late date, the death of Caroline Lady 

 Wilkinson demands a word of record. She was born atLlandebie, 

 Caermarthenshire, on May 10th, 1822, and was the daughter of 

 Henry Lucas, Esq., of Uplands, Glamorganshire. In October, 

 1856, she married Sir Gardner Wilkinson, the well-known Egypto- 

 logist. In 1858 she published a little volume ' Weeds and Wild 

 Flowers,' which is much in advance of most works of its kind. She 

 also made a large collection of original drawings of the Fungi of 



