320 NATURAL SCIENCE. APRIL, 1893. 
E learn with regret that Professor Karl Prantl died on February 
24, at Breslau, where he was Professor of Botany and 
Director of the Botanical Gardens. He is, perhaps, best known in this 
country for his ‘* Lehrbuch,” of which an edited translation by 
Professor Vines has been widely used among students, who, while in 
need of a modern text-book, found that of Sachs somewhat too 
ponderous. He was also joint editor, with Professor Engler, of the 
valuable ‘‘ Pflanzenfamilien,” still in progress of issue, and sole editor of 
Hedwigia, the organ of those who love mosses. Professor Prantl was 
also the author of some Researches on the Morphology of Vascular 
Cryptogams, and an ‘“‘ Exkursionsflora fur das konigreich Bayern.” 
Last year he started a new publication, entitled ‘‘ Arbeiten aus dem 
Kon. Bot. Garten zu Breslau.” 
EVONSHIRE has lost an enthusiastic and observant naturalist in 
the person of Edward Parfitt. Bornnear Norwichin 1820, theson 
ofa gardener, he had from his earliest youth a passion for studying life 
of all kinds, which led him to go to sea in order to get some acquain- 
tance with foreign animals. Wrecked near the Cape, he was obliged 
to make a long stay which increased his taste for Botany and Ento- 
mology, and allowed him to make a collection. On his return to 
England he devoted himself to Horticulture, and went to Devon 
about 1846. Since then Parfitt worked on the Natural History of the 
County, published numerous local papers, and has left a MS. on the 
Devon Fungi in 12 volumes, illustrated by 1530 plates, drawn and 
painted by himself. He was Librarian to the Devon and Exeter 
Institution for 32 years. Parfitt was entirely a self-made man, and 
Devon has lost a naturalist she could illspare. Hediedon January 15, 


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