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VI.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. JOHN PURCELL QUINTON, a member of the Gardening 
staff of the Royal Botanic Gardens, has been —. ted by the 
Secretary of State for the Coloni ies, on the recommendation of 
Kew, Curator of the Botanic Station, Sierra Leo 
Mr. AAGE ENGELBRETH CASSE, a Pe gente of the Gardening 
oe of the Ade Botanic Gardens, has been appointed, on the 
ecommendation ew, irector or the Plantations and 
ie pentalentel Bava in Hayti. 
» MESSRS. JAMES G. DUNCAN and GEORGE DOUGLAS, members 
of the Gardening se of the Royal Botanic Gardens, have been 
appointed, on the recommendation of Kew, Assistants in .St. 
George’s Park, Port Blizabet h. 
MAXIME CORNU.—The death of this distingnished ara has 
robbed Kew of a friend and correspondent of long standing. The 
Jardin des Plantes at Paris is part of a much larger organisation, 
the Muséum d@’ Histoire Naturelle. The horticultural side of it is 
the national botanical garden of France, and its head occupies the 
office in the larger establishment of Professeur du Culture. 
Between Cornu and his predecessors the most intimate relations 
had long subsisted with Kew. His death, which took ers ce at 
Paris on April 3, at the early age of 57, severed prematurely a 
personal tie which had contributed greatly to the nope 
interests of both institutions. 
The hand of death has been heavy on the French botanical 
world. In recent years it has fallen successively on Duchartre, 
Baillon, Naudin, de Vilmorin and Franchet : all men in the fore- 
at Kew—as a personal grief. I saw him last autumn in Paris full 
of the business: of congresses into which he was throwing 
himself with irrepressible vivacity and energy. He had often 
complained of ill health, but nothing in his appearance had 
ever suggested to me ground for serious anxiety. I had hoped to 
indace him to pay us a visit this year. could not go to his 
funeral. Nothing orp but the sad satisfaction of writing 
these lines to his m 
Corn s born Faly 16, 1843, at Orléans. The ability which 
he displayed’? in his schooldays seemed at first likely to be absorbed 
by studies on the literary side. But under the influence of his 
father and of his eae ae brother, Alfred Cornu, he devoted 
himself to mathema and with considerable success. en 
published in : ie Neo velies Annals de Mathématiques papers o 
geometrical subjects. In my judgment there could be no arti ar 
