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important epoch in botany. He was successively Professor 

 of Botany at Jena, Dresden, and Dorpat, and published at 

 least fifteen original works, several of which have appeared 

 in an English dress, exclusive of papers in Journals. A 

 full sketch of his career, with a corresponding bibliograpliy, 

 will be found in Botanische Gentralhlatt, Nos. 31 and 32, 

 1881, and in the Botanische Zeitung for 12th August of the 

 same year. 



GoTTLOB LuDWiG Kabenhoest was born on the 22nd 

 March 1806, at Treuenbrieken in Brandenburg, and died 

 near Meissen on 24th April 1881. His works on Algce, 

 the German Gryptogamic Flora, and Mycologia Europcea are 

 classical. He founded Hedwigia, a.nd edited it until 1878. 



Dr J. M. HiLDEBRANDT, the German traveller, to wliose 

 long explorations the public herbaria of Europe owe many 

 representative plants of Eastern Africa, died in May 1881, 

 at Tananarive (Madagascar), of a malady induced by the 

 climate on a European constitution. 



William Gorrie, whom many of us had previously been 

 inclined to reckon as well-nigh a silent member, gave 

 proof of his sound wisdom and valuable experience in the 

 presidential addresses he delivered to this Society. The 

 quiet individual influence he exercised in the extension of 

 scientific arboriculture and horticulture had been long recog- 

 nised. William Gorrie unexpectedly passed away in a railway 

 carriage when returning from a professional engagement in 

 Dumfriesshire, in January 1881, at the age of sixty-nine. 

 He early made a name for himself in horticulture, and 

 joined the Botanical Society in 1864, having previously 

 contributed to our Transactions short notes on the intro- 

 duction of foreign trees into Britain ; these notes being 

 communicated by his friend James M'Nab. Mr Gorrie's 

 family have made their mark in the literature of Scottish 

 agriculture and gardening. His father, Archibald Gorrie, 

 of Annat Gardens, Perth, was enrolled an Associate in 

 1839, and his brother David, who sent papers to our 

 Society, and also to the Journal of Agriculture^ published 

 a small treatise on Biblical Botany, still held in esteem. 



