254 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
The new series of the ‘Phytologist,’ edited by Mr. Alexander Irvine, has been 
fine with the sixth volume. “Speaking commercially," say the pro- 
prietors in their farewell address, “it has yielded no pecuniary profit; on the 
contrary, the owners have not been indemnified for the necessary ex the 
capital and labour expended have yielded no money returns. . . . "Thef € 
. That 
this has Lem cw » the present age, and will be more so to sonctitg no one 
can or w 
"DE Reichenbach, fil., hitherto Professor of Botany at Leipzig, has ii 
pointed Di the Botanie Gardens at Hamburg; and Dr. Hofmeister, 
whose valuable ^h on the higher Cryptogams has been been made accessi- 
ble to English readers through Mr. Currey's excellent translation, Professor. of 
Botany and Director of the Botanie Garden at pare 
From a letter received by Mr. Daniel Hanbury from Dr. White, of Colon, 
place on the 19th of June, of phthisis, from which complaint he had been 
suffering for several years. Mr. Hayes was born in New York, where he 
studied and graduated in medicine. He then spent about two years in Paris, 
 düring which time he devoted much attention to botany. Upon his pie to 
States, the result of which was the laying out of a waggon ge from El Paso 
to Fort Yuma, a process which oceupied about two years. ring this period 
Mr. Hayes made good use of his botanical knowledge, Miei occupying 
is spare time in ch the plants of the region he was visiting. Symptoms 
of pulmonary con — having for some time declared themselves in his 
constitution, he visited t e Isthmus of Panama for the benefit of his 
Nie, poyri iron was so serious that it seemed improbable he. could 
re than a few months, but the change to a warmer climate proved 
scientific friends, sic whom his collections were distributed, the chief return 
which he asked was botanical information and spare books, and P was only 3 
few months previous to his death that he was induced to send to En 
a few small sets of plants for sale. For a disinterested pursuit of science ? 
kindly wish to assist others, and an unrepining endurance of adverse eee 
stances, the name of Sutton Hayes should not be forgotten by his brother- 
botanists. | 
The two largest Chinchona plants on the Neilgherry Hills are producing 
flowers, and, as many more will shortly do the same, an early supply ef 90d 
un 
Neilgherry Hills was 167,215, of which 43,028 were planted out. Applications 
for 61,250 plants had been made from various parts of India, and Hp : 
had already been distributed. : 
