432 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [Novenper 
THE DAILY PRESS has brought the news of the death of Auguste Trécul, 
the venerable French botanist. He was born in 1818, and died October 16 in 
a hospital in Paris, and is reported to have been in a very destitute condition. 
His name as an anatomist was a more familiar one to botanists of a generation 
ago than to those of today, his principal papers dealing with the vascular sys- 
tem. During 1848 and 1849 he explored various regions of North Ameri 
and many of the cactus species of European gardens were first obtained by 
him during his travels in Texas and Mexico, as well as the beautiful Yucca 
which bears his name. 
BARON FERDINAND VON MUELLER died at Melbourne, Australia, Octo- 
ber oth, in his 72d year. His is the most distinguished name in Australian 
greatest service to science. He left Europe in 1847, and never returned to 
it, but his enormous correspondence and his great collections always kept 
him in close touch with his foreign associates. His publications are very 
numerous, and many of them are noteworthy in presenting the most com- 
plete accounts of certain notable Australian groups, as Eucalyptus, Acacia, 
etc. An interesting biographical sketch will be found in Gardeners 
Chronicle of October 17. . 
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laws. Doubtless in the distant future a less cumbrous and changeable 
lected but once, Many are still known only from descriptions ane 
published in the last century, and are unrepresented in herbaria. ead. 
cult, however, to believe that they are really extinct. The fact 
probably accounted for by the extremely local limitation of-species 7 
Africa, which is hardly paralleled in this respect by any other flora 
world.—W. T. T. Dyer, in Kew Bulletin. oe: 
