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CORRESPONDENCE. 
Death of Dr. Meller. 
I beg to send you a brief account of the death of Dr. Meller (Director of 
the Botanieal Gardens at the Mauritius), so that you eei tan a compiled 
notice in ivo * Journal of Botany,’ if you think it will be p: 
es James Meller (M.D., and Member of ihe "Royal College of 
Surgeons E Taasi: 1857), died at Allington House, Berrima, New 
Wales, on the 26th of February, 1869, aged thirty-three years. He died from 
general debility, the result of frequent attacks of fever, first contracted when 
in Africa with Dr. Livingstone, and also in Madagascar. He arrived in Decem- 
ber at Sydney from the Mauritius vid Melbourne, having been sent by the 
Government of that island to collect different varieties of the Sugar-Cane, and 
thought advisable » remove im to a cooler part of the cata an arrange- 
me hich h ; Bei as fixed upon, having a cool moun- 
tain air, rather more than 2000 feet above the level of the sea, and distant 
.83 iei from Sydney, and, moreover, easily reached by railroad,—a t ad- 
vantage to an invalid. He did not, however, derive the expected benefit from 
the change ; although the evenings were co cold as to require a fire, his appetite 
did not at all improve, and consequently the debility increased ; he gradually 
sank and died, on the 26th of February, in the full possession of his senses. 
He was attended to by his sister (Miss Meller), who accompanied him from 
the CREA and who has since left for England (viá d the early 
of this month. GEORGE BENNETT. 
Sydney, March 25th, 1869. 
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Importation of American Seeds to Australia. 
In my attempts to obtain acorns of American Oaks and nuts of the Aa 
ed in the result, as many cultivators would gladly secure the seeds of 
these valuable trees for distant localities. Packing in dry sand succeeded 
always best ; for not only the seeds of the American species of Juglans, Quercus, 
d Carya came thus safely a voyage of fully three months, but in a similar 
I Assam Tea seeds fit for germination, the seeds being more 
