194 The Botanical Gazette. (ay, ; 
ten living species being name 
referred to. Ofthe 197 titles included in his bibliography, 3g at 
credited to botany. 
Dr. Orro Kuntze, having returned from his South American trip, 
asks that the international committee on botanical nomenclature givt 
him opportunity to demonstrate what he calls “the absurdities of the 
Genoa Congress.” There can be no doubt but that any botanist who 
has anything to say concerning nomenclature will be gladly heard. 
e committee is simply a representative body, and is merely intendee 
to formulate the opinion of the majority of working botanists. 4 
_ THE WELL-KNOWN naturalist and explorer of Brazil, Central Amer 
ica and Mexico, August B. Ghiesbreght, died on the nth of February, — 
in the eighty-second year of his age. In numerous and prolongs — 
travels throughout all parts of tropical America Ghiesbreght 
brought to light great numbers of new and interesting plants, and 
collections enrich all of the principal herbaria and gardens ie 
: . A glance at the monumental “Biologia Centrali-Am 
is sufficient to show the vast extent of his labors, which are com 
orated by the specific names of many plants and animals rer”: 
cially in the arboreous fig-wort, Ghiesbreghtia grandiflora, which 
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peolony which it so much demands, and systematists can! 
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