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almost a year his unfortunate colleague, Prof. Kunth, as well ; 
his colleague in the Flora of Portugal, Count Hoffmansegge. 
Prof. Hornschuch of Griefswalde, the eminent muscologist, died 
on the 7th of January last, also, I believe of advanced age. Prof. 
Bernhardi of Erfurt, died in May, 1850, aged.76. Prof. Koch of 
Erlangen, author of the Flora Germanica, and long esteemed 
the best authority in German plants, died in November, 1849, 
aged 78. In the same month and of the same age, died Dr. 
Sturm, the Cryptogamist, at Nuremberg; and in the month pre- 
vious, Prof. Schauer, of Breslau. Prof. Kunze of Leipsic was 
suddenly struck down by apoplexy, on the last day of April, 1851. 
Prof. Ledebour, died at Munich on the 4th of July last. 
The professorship at Berlin, with the curatorship of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, having been declined by Prof. Mohl, who was 
unwilling to leave Tubingen, has been accepted by Prof. Braun, 
who had shortly before been transferred from Friburg to Giessen, 
but who will now find fuller scope for his activity and great tal- 
€nts at the Prussian capital. Dr. Mettenius of Heidelberg has 
been appointed to the chair at Friburg. The chair of the late 
tof. Kunze has been assigned, at least for the present, to Prof. 
Peeppig, the South American traveller. 
The distinguished Professor Wahlenberg of Upsal, died on the 
23d of. March, only a little above seventy years of age; and is 
Succeeded by the celebrated Fries, who has until now held some 
minor professorship in the University of Upsal, not connected 
with botany. Prof. Fries has recently published a second part 
of the Summa Vegetabil. Scandinavia, and also (in the Upsal 
Transactions) an elaborate monograph of Hieracium, a genus 
which gives no small trouble to European botanists. 
Ledebour’s Flora Rossica had been continued down to the 
€nd of the Dicotyledones previous to the author’s decease ; and 
it is understood that the manuscript for the remainder is very 
nearly complete. 
_Mr. Webb, having finished his elaborate Phytographia Cana- 
riensis during the past year, the splendid Histoire Naturelle des 
Tles Canaries, par MM. P. Barker Webb and S. Berthelot, is 
how, I believe, complete. The principal labor has fallen upon 
Mr. Webb himself, Mr. Berthelot having long been absent from 
tance, on a distant colonial appointment. The botanical por- 
hon of this great work consists of four volumes (imperial 4to) 
With 287 plates; besides the volume on Geographical Botany, 
treating of the general aspect of the vegetation of the Canary 
lands, its phytostatic distribution, &e. a ene 
Dr. Weddell, one of the more distinguished of the younger 
botanists of Paris, though an Englishman by birth, now one of 
)@ aid-naturalists at the Jardin des Plantes, has made @ most 
Portant contribution to materia medica as well as botany, 
