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called for, to introduce the names of the authors of the species into 
the body of the work as well as in the systematic list ; and the addition 
of short diagnostic characters of the tribes, sections, and genera to this 
list, so as to make it a key to the work. The only change in no- 
menclature we have noticed is one that will meet with general approval. 
Delesseria sanguinea, the most striking of our British Alye, was some 
years ago separated from that genus, and condemned to appear under 
the name Wormskioldia. This had, however, been already appropriated 
to a genus of flowering plants, and Mr. Gray has substituted for it the 
more agreeable and euphonious name Mazgeria. 
BOTANICAL NEWS. 
Mr. W. Thistleton Dyer, B.A., has been appointed Professor of Botany in 
the Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester. 
Drs. Regel and Herder have sent us their * Enumeratio Plantarum in regi- 
onibus cis- et transsiliensibus a cl. Semenovio anno 1857 collectarum,’ 8vo, 
co 
ir 
* Genera ’), Sea paniculatum, Acer Semenowii, and Cicer Songa- 
ricum, var. imparipinn 
A fearful cyclone ive over the Botanic Garden of vier on the 2nd of 
November last, destroying many of the plants which had e scaped destruction 
i that of 1864, and many of the species which since that gale had been in- 
roduc 
Germany has lost another of her great botanists in the person of Dr. 
Schultz (Bipontinas), who died at Deidesheim, on the 17th of December last, 
in the sixty-third year of his age 
We regret to have to announce the death of Dr. Charles Giles Bridle Dau- 
beny, Professor of Chemistry, Botany, and Rural Economy, and Curator of 
the Botanic Garden at Oxford. He was born in 1795, at Stretton, in Glouces- 
tershire, and educated at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he graduated B.A. 
in 1814, and subsequently proceeded to his other degrees. Having applied 
himself to the study of pie he practised for some years as a physician, 
but since 1829, applied himself to the physical sciences, especially chemistry 
and botany. He took an active part in the proceedings of the British Associa- 
tion, and similar meetings, and wrote several botanical works, among which 
may be named his ‘ Lectures on Roman culture,’ ‘Lectures on Climate,’ 
and an ‘ Essay on the Trees and Shrubs of the Ancients.’ The Mit hahi 
ersant with the actual state of modern systematic botany. He died on the 
l3th of December; and will be chiefly remembered by his efforts to free 
hice oo from the stigma of neglecting the cultivation of the natural 
