360 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
should appoint an agent in London, as well as in the great towns of the 
Continent 
The Cad L. C. Academy Nature Curiosorum has conferred the degree 
of Doctor of FINT. on Mr. G. H. K. Thwaites, Superintendent of the 
Royal Botanic Garden, Peradenia, and author of an ‘ Enumeration of Ceylon 
Plants.’ We seine congratulate him on an honour so well deserved. 
"ud — e has " — = _— for Loser. : eyes 
Minds. and Ophioglossese,’ by gs W. J. Hooker, i in ten mo 
Kew; and ‘ Rust, Mildew, and Mould under the Microscope: a Plain 
Easy Guide to the Study of Microscopic Fungi,’ by M. C. Cooke. 
bach's * Flora of the British West India Islands’ is now quite completed. 
Dr. Schübeler, veg work on the useful plants of Norway was noticed in our 
last volume, has been elected Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic 
Gardens at Christiani 
Mr. William Muda, the author of the ‘Manual of British Lichens,’ has 
den 
Mr. B. T. Lowne, who has accompanied the Rev. H. Telstar: 6 n his recent 
tour to Palestine, has brought home a considerable collection of dried plants, 
which he has lately been arranging and making up into sets, including small 
sets of “ Scriptural plants.” 
Professor von Leonhardi, of Prague, has published in the Proceedings xi 
the Brünn penc Bees Society, a paper on Austrian Charas, of which w 
have seen a reprint. A revision of those plants had become necessary. 
terer 
labours. Ganterer enumerated nineteen coh Leonhardi knows thirty-one, 
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nus, and Chara. On the whole, the paper is satisfactory, but we should have 
liked to have, besides the mere synonyms, references to the works, often obscure 
provincial periodicals, where the names were first published. 
Died at Brussels, September 1, aged sixty-one, M. Jean Kickx, Professor in 
the University of Ghent, ei by several Cryptogamie, principally Mycolo- 
gical papers on the Belgian Flora, 
Died, August 20, at Poppelsdorf, near Bonn, Dr. Hermann Schacht, Pro- 
fessor of Botany and Director of the Botanic Garden at Fe place. He was 
born near Hamburg, July 15, 1814, and commenced his career as a pharmaceu- 
tical chemist; he was afterwards assistant to Professor Shed, then lecturer 
caught during a recent excursion to the mountains. He was a physiologist 
whose services science could ill afford to lose. - 
