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settlement in the mountains of Venezuela, where he made a large collection of 
dried plants, and later a small one on the Isthmus. He then returned to 
native country, but after a year or two his longing for botanical exploration 
and for a milder climate took him to Trinidad, where for a time he botanized 
with his old zeal and assiduity. 
Fendler was a close and accurate eee a capital collector and speci- _ 
men-maker, very pains-taking and methodical, and his excellent distributed 
palincilina are classical, especially the first el a large part of which was early 
named and published in the Plante Fendleriane Novo-Mexicane. It was the 
first sat ee made in that part of the country. He is commemorated in a 
beautiful and quite peculiar Sasdeaa c ak. indigenous to New Mexico 
and Texas, Fendlera ruprola, and numerous species of his own discovery bear 
his name. He was very retiring and shy in habits, of refined bearing, and of 
a scientific turn of mind in other lines than that of his chosen pursuit of Bot- 
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lished at Wilmington, Delaware, where he then resided, at his own expense and, 
We suppose, with small returns, a well-written treatise (of 154 pages, 8vo.) P 
“The Mechanism of the Universe and its primary effort-exerting Powers; the 
Nature of Forces and the ase of Matter, with remarks on the Essence 
and Attributes of the all-Intelligent.” He was one of the ingenious race of 
paradoxers, and it may be left to er future De Morgan to characterize his 
w e will certainly be lastingly and well remembered in botany. 
ALPHONSE LAVALLEE, as we are grieved to learn, died at Segrez, his coun 
try seat, a few leagues pee Paris, on the third of May last, at the age of 
about ferbpublde. This is a most unexpected and a heavy loss to, botany, and 
especially to heeding A gentleman of abundant means and of great po 
spirit, he had taken ornamental trees and shrubs for his specialty, had for 
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with thirty plates; and early in the present year he published, in the same 
Sumptuous form and with great beauty of illustration, Les Clematites @ et 
Fleurs, with twenty-two plates. He hac i 
of Cr 
, and of a visit made to Cannes for its benefit, also - 
tioning that he h had been pressed to take the chair of culture at the Paris Mu- 
seum, which carries with it the superintendence of the Jardin des Plantes, vacated 
by the death of Decaisne, but was eons to decline it. A serious loss, ind deed, : 
is sustained in the death, at middle age, of this zealous collector of our sciene® — 
this most liberal- minded, amiable, aad accomplished man. A. G. 
