160 BOTANICAL NEWS. 



Dr. Heinrich Wilhelm Buek died at Hamburg on Feb. 10th, 

 at the age of 83. His name will always be held in thankful 

 remembrance by systematic botanists for the very useful index to 

 DeCandolle's ' Prodromus ' which he prepared. 



The death of Sir Walter Calverley Trevelyan, Bart., who had 

 attained to nearly 82, occurred at his house, Wallington, 

 Northumberland, on March 23rd. To his numerous accomplish- 

 ments he added an accurate and extensive acquaintance with 

 natural science, and was a good botanist. His most important 

 contribution to botanical literature is his catalogue of the plants 

 of the Faroe Islands, first printed in the ' Edinburgh New Philo- 

 soi)liical Journal ' for 1835, the result of five months' sojourn in the 

 islands in 1821. He was also an occasional contributor of notes 

 to many scientific journals, including our own pages. 



Our obituary also contains the names of Prof. Heinrich 

 Gottlieb Ludvig Eeichenbach, on the 17th of March, at Dresden, 

 the most celebrated critical botanist of the continent, who had 

 attained to the great age of 86 ; and of Dr. Ferdinand Moritz 

 Ascherson, on the 19th Feb., at Berlin, at the age of 81. Both 

 of these botanists have left in their sons eminent successors. 



Wilhelm Schimper, the well-known Abyssinian traveller and 

 botanist, died at Adoa, in that country, last October, at the 

 age of 74. 



William Mudd, who died at Cambridge, where he was Curator 

 of the Botanic Garden, was a well-known Lichenologist ; his 

 * Manual of British Lichens ' was printed in 1861, accompanied by 

 a series of illustrative specimens in 3 Fasciculi. 



Mr. T. T. Cheeseman, of the Museum, Auckland, New Zealand, 

 wishes to exchange the plants of that country for British ones. He 

 is prepared to send any number up to 600 of well-dried and 

 accurately named Phanerogams and Ferns. 



It is with great satisfaction that we have received a circular 

 from Mr. C. Bailey with reference to the Botanical Exchange Club, 

 the critical condition of which was recently referred to here. He 

 offers to undertake the Secretaryship of a revived Club on a narrower 

 basis, and will receive the parcels ; several other members having 

 undertaken in turn the annual labour of making up the return 

 parcels. It is proposed to limit the number of members, and for 

 the present the membership will only be offered to those who 

 contributed parcels to the last distribution. Mr. Nicholson of Kew, 

 who has this year chiefly made the distribution, is preparing a list of 

 desiderata for 1879. With reference to the Keport, it is suggested 

 that its publication in this Journal would save the Club the cost 

 of printing and give the notes wider publicity, besides adding 

 to the interest of our pages, where indeed the Report has always 

 been reproduced. We trust that this Club, which has contributed 

 so much to British Botany, will now take a fresh start of useful 

 prosperity. 



