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pat chao and a chair of —- established in its room, of 
most distinguished contemporaries of A. L. de Jussieu. M. ichard 
was celebrated as a professor, and held no mean rank as a botanist. 
His chair in the jaca was filled by the election of Dr. C. Montagne, 
the well-known Cryptogamist; that in the Ecole de Medécine by M. 
Moquin-Tandon, formerly of ‘Toulouse. 
We hear of the decease of Dr. Prest, of Prague, the pace of the 
Reliquie Hankeane, Tentamen Pteridographia, &c., Also of 
the recent death of Dr. Watrers, of Berlin, author of the Repioniaie, 
and the Annales Botanices Systematice; a useful record of all plants 
recently published. He is said to have died by his own hands, after 
notifying his botanical friends that he was dissatisfied with the world, 
which would not recognize his merits. It is reported that Dr. Peter- 
mann, of Leipsic, will continue the Annales,—a work much pagers —or 
carry ona similar publication. .G. 
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