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Dr. Isaac Bayley Balfour lias succeeded Dr. Dickson in the 

 chair of Botany in the University of Glasgow. The appointment 

 is interesting, as being the first in this country of one of the 

 younger generation of botanists to an important position as a 

 teacher : it may be confidently expected that the energy and 

 ability already shown by Dr. B. Balfour will, with this full scope 

 for then' exercise, result in much improvement in the methods of 

 scientific study in the University. 



A practical botanist who is also a Cardinal must be a very rare 

 combination ; if it has ever occurred excei)t in the person of 

 MoNsiGNORE Haynald, the Hungarian archbishop wdio has recently 

 been raised to the highest distinction in the Koman church. 

 Botanists who attended the Congress in Florence in 1875 will 

 remember him as one of the Vice-Presidents on that occasion. 



Dr. W. G. Farlow, for the past five years Assistant-Professor 

 of Botany at the Bussey Institution, Harvard University, U.S.A., 

 has been appointed Professor of Cryptogamic Botany in the 

 Universit}^ proper, 'and the laboratory is now established at 

 Cambridge. This is the first special chair of Cryptogamy 

 established in America (or elsewhere ?). 



Professor Tuckerman has examined and named the w^hole of 

 the collection of Lichens of Dr. Thomas Taylor, which now forms 

 part of the herbarium of. the Boston Society of Natural History. 

 It contains many of the types of the species described by Taylor. 



The death of Heinrich Eudolf August Grisebach occurred on 

 May 9th. He was in his 66th year, having been born at Hanover 

 April 17th, 1814. Grisebach did a great deal of systematic and 

 geographical work in botany ; his early publications were on the 

 Gentianea, which he finalty monograi)hed in 1845 for the 

 ' Prodromus.' In 1841 he was appointed Professor at Gottingen, 

 with which university and garden he was connected till his death. 

 He explored Turkey in 1839 for I he Hanoverian Government, and 

 on his return he XDublished his travels, and the ' Spicilegium 

 Florae Eumelicae,' in 2 vols., in 1848-45. His attention was after- 

 wards called to the botany of the West Indies ; and in the 

 preparation of the ' Flora of the British West India Islands,' 

 1859-64 (the first of the Colonial Floras), of which he was the 

 author, he paid six excursions to England, but did not visit the 

 Islands themselves. Grisebach's most extensiv.e work was the 

 'Vegetation der Erde,' published in 1872, which has been trans- 

 lated into French, and is the only comprehensive book on the 

 subject. More recently he has xDublished on the plants of 

 temperate S.America, and he continued to work at Argentine 

 botany till his death. The genus Griscbachia was founded by 

 Klotzsch in 1838, and includes some South African Ericacccp. 

 A biography of the late Prof. Pieichenbach, from the pen of his 



