BOTANICAL NEWS. 255 
The Imperial German L. C. Academy has conferred upon Mr. Richa 
Spruce the Degree of Doctor of Philosophy, in appreciation of his sesen 
services as a botanical explorer and trav vet 
Dr. Welwitsch, the African traveller, has now been several months in London 
arranging his botanical collections, repe doubt the most important and ex- 
tensive ever made in the tropical parts of Western Africa. The specimens are 
in a beautiful state of preservation, and accompanied by copious notes, taken 
when they were gathered. Several botanists are assisting him in naming them, 
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Amongst the recent — in peg are Dr. Maximowicz (author of the 
* Flora Amurensis’), just re g from Japan; M. Casimir de Candolle, 
employed in consulting our Bene for his memoir on dpi for the 
* Prodromus ; and Dr. Müller, Conservator of De Candolle's Herbarium, who 
for the same work, with the exception of the genus Euphorbia, already so 
facie ure up X = — 
The 00 to the sister of the late Dr. Ed. Vogel, who 
lost his life in Central | Africa. whilst travelling for the Foreign Office, —giving 
botany and astronomy at Leipzig under Kunze and D'Arrest. His botanical 
papers were published in oe * Bonplandia,' and his African collections are. pre- 
served at the British Muse 
The death of the ded traveller and naturalist Francis Junghuhn, In- 
spector of the Chinchona plantations of Java, and well known by his important 
labours in the field of botany and ethnography, occurred on the 24th of April 
caped after a few months, and became, first, a sanitary officer in the French 
army in Algiers. He then entered, in the same capacity, the Dutch service 
in Sonda, where he had collected a vast quantity of materials for € 
works. He died at the age of fifty-two years, leaving a widow and i son. 
Professor Parlatore, p — nce, has brought out a pamphlet, € in 
French, on the Natural System (* Considérations sur la Méthode Naturelle en 
Botanique, Florence), Sisk deserves to be widely known, as emanating from 
the pen of one of the most distinguished systematic botanists ts Italy has pro- 
e and is epos édta dedicated to Professor A. Brongniart. 
As tated by us, on the night of May 7th the business-premises mises and 
adjoining peda dim of Mr. J. G. Baker and his brother were utterly 
destroyed by fire; the two families barely eseaping with their lives. 
amount of insurance was small i in comparison with the value of the property 
so an also im impo 
scripts yet unpublished. Under these painful circumstances it is felt by his 
