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now also of 9. Queen Street, Soho, has succeeded Mr. Hunneman in this 

 department. We have the pleasure to know Mr. Pamplin personally, and 

 are well acquainted with his punctual business habits, his great steadiness of 

 character, his obliging manners, and his ardent attachment to natural history 

 in general, and to botany in particular ; and we can with confidence recom- 

 mend him as a worthy successor to our lamented friend. We have reason to 

 believe that circulars, containing further particulars, will at once be issued by 

 Mr. Pamplin ; and we know that he will have the advice and assistance of 

 Mr. Hunneman's family in the first outset of his transactions. — IV. J. H. 

 {Annals of Natural History, No. xv. p. 143.) To the above testimony of 

 Sir William Jackson Hooker, we can add our own, having known Mr. Pam- 

 plin for above a dozen years, and had many transactions with him in the way 

 of procuring or exchanging scarce horticultural books, and invariably with 

 the utmost satisfaction. It will be of immense advantage to literary botanists 

 and horticulturists, if Mr. Pamplin should add to the kind of agency in which 

 the late Mr. Hunneman was engaged, that of importing foreign botanical and 

 horticultural works. — Cond. 



Art. VII. Obituary. 



M. Tripet, a celebrated tulip-grower of Paris, died in that city on April 8. 

 1837, in his 55th year. The taste for flowers, and particularly for tulips, may 

 be said to have been hereditary in Tripet's family. Grandfather, father, and 

 son have been celebrated in this way for more than a century. The grand- 

 father was a native of Champagne, possessing but little wealth, but he was 

 fortunate enough to marry a lady of rank in that province, a circumstance 

 which rarely occurred in those days. His son was born in 1749, and his 

 tulip shows, in the Champ Elysees, were celebrated throughout the kingdom. 

 At the revolution in 1789, M. Tripet emigrated to England, where he re- 

 mained nearly ten years ; and soon after his return to France in 1799, he 

 exhibited his collection to the public in his garden, in the Rue Fauxbourg 

 St. Martin. In 1801, he removed to the Champs Elysees, where his garden 

 was visited by all the eminent persons in France, including the ambassadors 

 from foreign powers. In 1814 he was appointed florist to the emperor, and 

 daily sent bouquets to the apartments of the palace, and planted yearly two 

 beds of tulips in the gardens of the Tuileries. This M. Tripet the second 

 had a son equally attached to flowers with the father, and who assisted in the 

 management of his concerns; but he died before his father. M. Tripet's 

 successor is M. Le Blanc, whose establishment for the sale of bulbs and 

 flower seeds is on the Boulevard des Capucins, and whose nurseries are at 

 Maisons-Alfort, and at the Avenue de Briteul. (L. L. and Annates, &c, for 

 1837. 



Dr. F. Falderman, C.M.H.S., curator of the Botanic Garden, Petersburg, 

 author of Fauna Entomotogica Trans-Caucasica, 3 vols. 4to, and of various 

 articles in this Magazine, died in the beginning of the present year; the pre- 

 cise time we have been unable to ascertain. Some of our readers will recollect 

 the list of melon seeds given in Vol. VI. p. 339., which we received from him 

 and distributed ; and also the list of rare plants sent from Persia to the 

 Petersburg Botanic Garden, in the same volume, p. 321. The last letter 

 which we had from Dr. Falderman was dated October 24. 1838, in which he 

 says that the third volume of the Fauna Entomologica, &c, is in the press, and 

 will be finished before the new year. Dr. Falderman was a scientific botanist 

 and horticulturist ; and well acquainted with British practices, having been some 

 time in the Horticultural Society's Garden, as well as in those of his native 

 country (Germany). He was much respected at Petersburg by all who knew 

 him. — Cond. 



