1^0 BOTANICAL NEWS. 
26th at Mr. Stevens's auction rooms. There was, however, but little of 
value, the lots consisting chiefly of very imperfect sets, or poor specimens. 
The prices realized were from two shillings to ten shillings a lot. 
The * Nuovo Giornale Botanico' gives some details of the Laboratory 
of Cryptogamic Botany, founded in Pavia by the Italian Government. lt 
is specially intended for the study of cryptogamic parasites, of the maladies 
caused by them in plants and animals, and is placed under the direction of 
Garovaglio we may well hope that some valuable investigations into the 
diseases of plants will justify and reward the wise liberality of the Italian 
authorities. : 
. E. Bommer has been appointed Professor of Botany in the Uui- 
versity of Brussels. 
The staff of the University of Strasburg is being filled by German 
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Strasburg Botanical Garden. 
It is with great regret that we have to record the death, at the age of 
67, of one of the leading botanists of Europe, Hugo von Mohl, which 
occurred during the night of the 31st March, at Tübin e was 
found dead in his bed on the morning of the lst April, having had no 
previous illness. Born at Stuttgart in 1805, he early devoted himself to 
the histological department of botany, in which he afterwards held the 
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in 1843, till his death. They chiefly refer to the structure of «the stems 
of Phanerogams and Ferns, the vegetable cell, chlorophyll, cambium, the 
embryo, cuticle, ete, is memoir on the structure of Palm-stems was 
translated by Henfrey for the Ray Society. Mohl’s greatest han: 
was his ‘Principles of the Anatomy and Physiology of the Vegetable Cel 
translated into English by Henfrey, which pro 
uced a great change and a vance in vegetable histology, and indeed si 
histology in general. The death of this distinguished botanist occurred a 
Tübingen, where he had been Professor of Botany for thirty-seven years. 
* CoRRIGENDUM.—In the article on Baptisia perfoliata, reprinted n 
pp. 84, 85) from *'Silliman's Journal." s been reproduce 
from the original. In lines 29, 30, of p. 85, for “ fusion ” read torsion, 
aud for “ adopting the foliage of” read adapting the foliage to. 
