96 BOTANICAL NEWS. 



The place of the late Prof. Borszczow in the University of 

 Kiew has been filled by the appointment of Dr. J. Schiialhausen. 



Prof. Balfour has resigned the chair of Botany in the 

 Universit}^ of Edinburgh, which he has held for thu-tj^-four 

 years. His failing health is, we regret to hear, the cause of 

 this step. 



Adam White, late of the Zoological Department of the British 

 Museum, died at Glasgow on December 30th, at the age of 

 sixty-two. Though chiefly devoted to Entomology (especially the 

 Coleoptera) , he was a thorough naturalist, and possessed an 

 excellent knowledge of British plants ; a good many specimens 

 from him are in the British Museum Herbarium. 



The death is announced, on January 10th, of Dr. Jacob 

 BiGELOw, at Boston, U.S.A., where he was an eminent physician 

 and distinguished as an artist, a scholar, and a naturalist. In 

 Botany he was the author of a ' Florula Bostoniensis,' dated so 

 long ago as 1814 (a third edition in 1846) ; and his ' American 

 Medical Botany ' (1817-21) is well known. DeCandoUe in 1836 

 dedicated to him the Compositous genus Bifjelowia. 



Another American botanist, Dr. Jainies Watson Bobbins, has 

 also recently died. He was a close student of the Flora of the 

 Northern States and had a critical knowledge of the diflerent 

 genera. The monograi^h of Potamogeton in * Gray's Manual ' is 

 £:om his pen. He died on January 9th, at the age of seventy- 

 seven. 



Hermann Itzigsohn, who died on January 4th at Schoneberg, 

 near Berlin, cEtat. 65, was a cryptogamist of eminence. He had 

 especially worked at Mosses and Algae, and is the author of 

 numerous memoirs on these j)laiits. His name is especially 

 connected with his researches on spermatozoids in the lower 

 plants. 



We regret to have to make the announcement that unless some 

 competent botanist who is able to spare the necessary time can be 

 found, the Botanical Exchange Club will be compelled to dis- 

 continue its annual distribution. Mr. Briggs has for several years 

 efficiently performed the large amount of work which the curator- 

 ship involves, but last year felt compelled to resign. The stock of 

 specimens sent in are in the charge of Mr. Baker, at Kew, and the 

 London members of the Club will make up the return parcels as 

 soon as their other engagements will permit, and will have the 

 assistance of Mr. Briggs, who intends to visit London. The Eeport 

 will be sent out as usual, but it is not intended to issue a list of 

 desiderata this spring. 



