280 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Wendland, who for fifty-three years was the head of the Royal Berg-garden of 
Herrenhausen, near Hanover, and who attained the advanced age of seventy- 
He was the son of Johann Chr. Wendland (the coadjutor of Schrader), 
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on Palms. Though displaying less literary activity than his father, we have 
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that relates to nis t gardening: es SHREDHIBNGE under his charge 
was admirably conducted and pre-eminentl hin permanently-grown species, 
though some of the Continental Botanic Gardenu beat it by counting those 
annuals and biennials, grown only at periods varying from two to four years. 
Wendland was fond of old garden-plants, and resisted, as far as lay in his 
pen the application of the doctrine that selection rather than collection 
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always sited as one of the leading balener of the country, where a 
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isg knowledged that it was entirely due to Wendland's influence 
that Palms and Cycads (of which he cultivated the largest collection) are now 
so extensively cultivated on the Continent, and have houses built for their 
exclusive reception. Wendland was neat and careful in his habits, and gen- 
tlemanly in look and manners. 
The public papers contain the following sad news:—On Tuesday, July 
17th, the Steam Navigation Company's boat, the * Eagle,’ took up among her 
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got to the Lower Hope, below Gravesend, the gentleman was seen by the mate 
suddenly to fall from the sponsons into the river. The alarm was at once 
given, the steamer was stopped, and a boat was lowered to recover the un- 
happy man, but without success, and after at half an hour search- 
ing for him, the steamer proceeded on her journey, carrying with her the 
We regret to have to announce the death of Dr. Carus, of Dresden, President 
of the Imperial German Academy Nature Ouod and ex officio “ 
Palatinus Ceesareus." 
