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4, Seemann’s Botany of the Voyage of the Herald.—Part V, finishes 
the Composite of the Flora of the Isthmus of Panama, and continues 
this flora down to the Piperacee, which, as well as the Artocarpee, are 
elaborated by Professor Miquel of Amsterdam, the able monographer 
of these families. Mr. Seemann has reéstablished the order Crescenti- 
ace, with a new character, and referred to it nine genera and about 
thirty known species; all natives of tropical and subtropical America 
and Africa. His views were expounded last winter in a paper read 
before the Linnzean Society of London, when he divided the order into 
two sections, the Crescentiee and the Taneciew, In the September No. 
of Hooker’s Journal of Botany, this author has given an able revision of 
the principal genera and species of the Crescentiee. Among the plates 
are flne illustrations of the Ivory-Nut Palm, the Phytelephas macrocarpa 
of Ruiz and Pavon. A. G. 
The Pandanee, or Screw Pines, are being investigated by Professor 
rum, with illustrations. Meanwhile, some remarks on the family, and 
characters of two new genera, read before the Academy of Sciences 
at Amsterdam, are published in Hooker’s Journal of Botany for Sep- 
tember. A. G. 
ique, also. well known as a conchologist; he died June 26th. Puitrp 
arker Wesp, Esq., a distinguished English Botanist, long resident 
abroad, chiefly in Paris, where he will be greatly missed and deeply 
regretted, not only by all the French Naturalists, but by a wide circle 
of friends and correspondents, who will long remember his generous 
hospitality and kindness. He died suddenly, of cholera, on the 3lst of 
August. was an excellent classical scholar as well as a 
general naturalist. His most extensive work is the Histoire Naturelle 
des Iles Canaries, written in conjunction with M. Berthelot; almost 
every page of which reveals something of the vast and varied knowl- 
edge of Mr. Webb. Among his publications are the Otia Hispanica, 
a folio volume of plates and descriptions of Spanish plants; the Spici- 
legia Gorgonea, an account of the botany of the Cape de Verd Islands, 
contributed to Hooker’s Niger Flora; and the Fragmenta Florule 
Athiopico- Egyptiane, recently published. Mr. Webb had accumula- 
ted one of the largest private herbaria in the world. This, we learn 
he bequeathed to his “dear friend, the Duke of Tuscany.” Its acqui- 
sition will render the Florentine herbarium,—the foundation of which 
was recently laid by his friend, the zealous Parlatore—one o rst-rate 
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To this list should be added the name of the late pg! of Saxony 
(recently killed by a fall from his carriage), one of the Foreign Hon- 
Members of the Linnean Society of London, a botanist of much 
zeal and no mean acquirements. A. G. 
