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till it can be shown that the quality, on the one hand, and the cost of 
production on the other, entitle New Zealand flax to a sure footing in 
the fibre market. 
(To be continued.) 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Adalbert Schnitzlein, Professor of Botany, and Director of the Botanic 
Garden at Erlangen, died, aged fifty-five years, = the 24th October, 1868, from 
the result of an accident while botanizing in the Tyrol. The author of a ‘ Flora 
of Bavaria’ and a ‘ Monograph of Typha,’ he was dat known by his * Icono- 
graphin Familiarum Naturalium Regni Vegetabilis,’ which is 6c PR left 
incomplete. 
Edward Poppig, Professor of Zoology at Leipsic, died on the 4th of Sep- 
tember, 1868. He was born at Plauen, on the 16th of July, 1798. In the years 
1827-29 he travelled in Chili, Peru, and the basin of the Amazon, and, on his 
return to Europe, published a narrative of his pugnam and, with Endlicher, 
an account of his plants in three folio volumes, with 1 
Franz Delessert, the surviving brother of phe: Delessert, and the 
r of his valuable herbarium, died at Paris on the 15th of October, 1868. 
Christian Friedrich Ecklon has recently died at the Cape of Good Hope. 
He was born at Apenrade, in Schleswig, on the 17th of December, 1795. aper 
studying medicine he went to the Cape as an assistant to an apothecary, a 
during the four pes € occa eiod this position he investigated the flora of = 
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ritipi He PEA his collections to Europe in 1828, and, after distri- 
buting them, be arranged to return to South Africa for further exploration. 
He visited the vicinity of Cape Town, and then made a journey into Caffraria, 
He returned to the same region afterwards in the company of Zeyher, and, 
having amassed a large and valuable collection, the two explorers returned to 
Hamburg, in 1832, to superintend their distribution, and to publish a deserip- 
tion of the novelties, which they did in their *Enumeratio Plant. Africe 
Australis Extratropice.’ He returned again H the Cape, where, with the excep- 
tion of another short visit to Europe, he has remained, quietly pursuing his 
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We understand that the Horticultural Society of Russia has appointed Dr. 
M. T. Masters, Spring Grove, Isleworth, and Mr. H. J. Veitch, King's Road, 
Chelsea, as its representatives in this country, with the object of promoting the 
interests of the International Horticultural Exhibition to be held under its 
auspices at St. Petersburg in May next, 
