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Vochysictceae, almost peculiar to Brazil, by 50 ; Mal/righiaceap by 

 lcY> ; Sapindaceae by 120 ; and Lrguminosac by 827 species. 



Glaziou was the recipient of many distinctions, notably the 

 Knighthood of the Order of the Rose of Brazil, and the Doctorate 

 of Philosophy of the German Leopoldinean Academy, but he 

 apparently set little store by them, as he did not use any of the 

 titles in the paper cited above. 



W. B. H. 



ERNEST Ppitzbr.— Another of the regular and appreciative 

 visitors to the Herbarium has passed away. Geheim Hofrath 

 Dr. E. Pfitzer, Professor of Botany at the University of Heidelberg, 

 and Director of the Botanic Garden there, died suddenly from 

 apoplexy, on Dec. 3rd last, at the age of sixty. He attended the 

 Conference on Hybridisation at the Royal Horticultural Society 

 last summer and read a paper, and he also did a little work at 

 Kew ; but for the first time, as he said, he took a rest in England. 

 He went to the Isle of Wight and was so charmed with the place 

 that he prolonged his stay in the island. Dr. Pfitzer was of a 

 most cheerful disposition, and he always had the appearance of 

 enjoying what he was doing, whether it was work or recreation. 

 Engaging in manner and bright in conversation, he was always a 

 very welcome visitor. He was author of a number of important 

 treatises on the morphology and classification of orchids, in which 

 he dwelt more especially on the importance of the vegetative 

 characters His « Grundziige einer vergleichenden Morphologie 



ler Orchideen, ' was the forerunner, and it is an admirable and 

 most instructive book. Much of his work was done at Kew, and 



Pn Ji i 116 T ed *° f ex P ressin g ^ gratitude for the facilities he 

 Sr^tddenbe^t^nt! ***" ^ 0Ur deep S ^^ to 



W. B. H. 



MRCS W AT'~T h l death ° f Mr ' John Newnham Winter, 

 ivi.r.^.o., i^.b.A., which occurred at his resident at Kew on 



January 18th, 1907, after a verv Wf ;ii i • t^' t 



annthPi «- a ™ o n ,i \ . J bnef "Iness, deprives Kew of 



76th vUr Zi U ?l ge ? er ° US ^end. Mr. Winter, who was in his 



fe ns and in lat^r rf ° r i year ! I Collector aild «">wer of filmy 

 iemsand in later life also of hardy alpine olants Hp was for 

 many vears a sn™aa a f, n i o„a i.:„l,. j T . P ld -»ra. ne was ioi 



in Brighton Tn Ji i7 \ g y respected medical practitioner 



extendTn as far aa k 'ittn! h„t **£■ °* traVe1 ' h ' s J onmey8 



unable to%> far afi.M i * ' as h,s Practice grew he -was 



attached to his Jffi Brife'Tat wa7 ""^ *? ^ 

 tor the extraordinary number of r,.I I • 

 and for the excellence oftetr £&%£?» * 



remarkable 



Winter 

 Garden 



never was allowed to rust Hew? ',5 nowled » e ot P lants wh ! ch 

 that the true charm of TnJt™? 3 t*™° ^ener, ho ding 



