288 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Dr. Schweinfurth is preparing for the botanical exploration of Egypt, Nubia, 
the Upper Nile, and the coast of the Red Sea; and begs us to state that he 
would be glad to receive any hints and suggestions with which those interested 
in the vegetation of those countries may favour him, and that he is willing to 
be directed. Communications should be directed to Dr. Schweinfurth, 58, 
Friederichsstrasse, Berlin. We wish the explorations might be extended to 
the snow-capped Kilimanjaro and Kenia, where probably more novelties are to 
be found than in any of the districts above mentioned. 
With regard to several discrepancies observable in the dates occurring in the 
memoir of Augustin-Pyramus De Candolle (supra, pp. 107-120), M. Alphonse 
De Candolle writes to us :—'* Tout en relevant une erreur singulière de moi, 
dans l'article bienveillant sur mon pare, en ‘Journal of Botany,’ vous en com- 
mettez une autre, sur laquelle il vaudrait la peine de faire un erratum Aug.- 
Pyr. De Candolle est mort le 9 Septembre 1841, et non le 5 Septembre 1851. 
Je l'avais bien indiqué en tête des mémoires. L'inexactitude singulière qui 
s'est glissée à la fin (25 Sept. au lieu de 9) est venue de ce que le 25 Septembre 
est pour moi une autre date fatale, celle de la mort de mon frère, de sorte 
qu'en rédigeant j'ai mis un jour pour l'autre." ; 
On the 15th of April died Professor Ch. H. B. A. Moquin-Tandon, of Paris, 
Member of the Institute. He was a pupil of Dunal at Montpellier, and will 
be remembered principally by his ‘Elements of Tetratology,’ published in $3 
1841, when he was Professor of Botany and Director of the Gardens at Tow — 
louse ; and by his synopsis of the Phytolaccacee, Salsolacee, Basellacee, and . 
Amarantacee, contributed to De Candolle's ‘Prodromus.’ We have also to 
announce the death of Professor Œ. B. Amici, who died on the 10th of April last 
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ther 1700 species of plants,—about the same number as that enumerated 
M yis Black in the tenth volume of the * Bonplandia, —and a fine set of draw- 
ings illustrative of the vegetable productions of the count 
