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Bot. Notiser (15 Sept.)— A. P. Wiuslow, 'The Salix- and 

 Eose-flora of Goteborg.' — S. Almqiiist, -Various notes.' — A. N. 

 Lundstrom, ' Remarks on cell-division in living material.' — P. G. E. 

 Tlieorin, * Hvmenomvcetes Gotlioburc:enses.' 



ISotanttal Nttos. 



A LOCAL Flora of great interest will very shortly be published, 

 the Flora of Plymouth, by our valued correspondent, Mr. T. 

 Archer Briggs. It is rarely that a district has been so completely 

 examined botanically as has this by Mr. Briggs, and his book will 

 be a nearly exhaustive account of the vegetation for twelve miles 

 round the town. 



Mr. R. I. Lynch, of Kew Gardens, has been appointed to 

 succeed the late Mr. Mudd as Curator of the Cambridge Botanic 

 Garden. 



The death of Edouard Fenzl occurred on September 29th, in 

 the 72nd year of his age. A few years ago he retired from the 

 chair of Botany in Vienna, which he had held for many years, 

 along with the Directorship of the Botanic Gardens. Fenzl has 

 written several memou-s on the AlsinecB and allied Orders, the 

 Composit(B and other obscure plants, and on the floras of the East 

 and of North Africa. 



We have also now to record the death, at the great age of 90, 

 of the Nestor of English botanists, John Miers, on October 17th. 

 As we hope to give a fuller obituary of this distinguished botanist, 

 we need now only say that he has been a constant friend to and 

 supporter of this Journal from its commencement, and has 

 contributed several valuable memoirs to its pages. 



Alfred French, whose death (aet. 40) has lost to the Botanical 

 Department of the British Museum an excellent attendant, was a 

 man of considerable natural ability, which only wanted opportunity 

 for its exercise. "Whilst working at his trade (baking), at Banbury, 

 in Oxfordshire, he devoted his scanty leisure to botany, formed a 

 herbarium, and acquired a good knowledge of British Phanerogams 

 and Mosses, as well as an acquaintance with other departments of 

 Science. This he was desirous to turn to the best account, and 

 the opportunity he sought seemed to present itself on the offer of 

 one of the subordinate places in the British Museum, to which he 

 was appointed in 1874. On first coming to London he also 

 lectured on Botany at the Polytechnic Listitution, but the number 

 of students was not sufficient to make him continue with a second 

 course. His health soon began to give way, and he became subject 

 to fits of an epileptic character, in one of which he died on Oct. 

 22nd. French had accumulated a large amount of material for 

 a new Flora of Oxfordshire, his native county ; he contributed a 

 short paper on Salvia pratensis to this Joiu-nal in 1875. 



