BOTANICAL NEWS. 383 
3 A due ies of Crépin’s useful * Flore de Belgique’ is being prepared 
de its au 
H.M. S." * Challenger, corvette of 2306 tons, Commander G. 8. Nar 
is about to be despatched by the Admiralty on a circumnavigation of de 
globe, for the purpose d dredging, sounding, and otherwise veio à 
investigating the deep sea. * The scientific staff consists of Prof. Wyvil 
Thompson, Director ; Mr. J. J. Wild, of Zurich, artist and private secre- 
ir J. Y. B ;M aN 
tary; Mr. uchanan, chemist; Mr. osely, Mr. John 
Murray, and Dr. von Willem aus Saha of Munich, naturalists. The 
emaki A is expected to leave in the first or secon December, 
and to return in April, 1876. They will visit Madeira, Canaries, Porto 
Rico, New York, Azores, Cape de Verdes, Fernando de Noronha, Bahia, 
uh ~ Good Hope, Prince Edward’s Isle, Crozets, Kerguelen’s Land, 
and possibly sail round New Z Zealand, thence round N. 
Sista, Poteet Wallace’s line up to the Phillipines, t touch New 
Guinea, Japan, Kamschatka, Behring’s Straits, Vancouver’s Island to 
Valparaiso ; thence through the Straits of Magelhaens to Rio, and so 
ome. Though no botanist is attached to the i v is understood 
that Mr. Moseley will collect pon on every d 
M. B. 
A manifestation in honour of ibd 3 was s held by the 
botanists of Belgium at the Botanic io dine: Brussels, on the 13th of 
ctober, the 50th A of blication of his 
* Commentationes Botanice.’ orren presented to the venerable 
statesman and botanist, now in his 76th year, a magnificently decorated 
album, d the portraits and signatures of the donors, and pro- 
nounced a congratulatory address. 
The following note has appeared in several of the scientific papers 
“ Much anxiety is felt at Berlin about the fate of Dr. Pritzel, afclícint 
of the Royal Academy and director of that of Sciences, who bas entirely 
disappeared since the first of this month. The belief is that he has 
been murdered.” 
Mr. Edward Whymper has arrived at Copenhagen from his second 
exploration of W. Greenland. He briags with him rich collections of 
curiosities, and some € siccis of fossil wo 
The chair of Botany in the University of Copenhagen, - by 
Prof. Oersted’s Bont his valuable and extensive library was sold by 
auction on November 9th and following days) is likely to b one) 
by several Danish botanists. It is, however, anticipated that Dr. Eugene 
Warming will obtain it. At the time of his death, Prof. Oersted was 
intending to publish a memoir on the fossil species of oak, and to 
race the connection between the living and extinct races in the manner 
of Unger, but noes on the subject “fit for publication was discovered 
among his pape 
“ The haces of Colombia,” says the * Athenzeum,' “ has extended 
the grant to Mr. J. Triana for five years in order that he may be enabled 
to I the ‘Flora Colombiana’ and the ‘ Botanical Geography of 
olombia * in London in the Spanish language. ^ 
A letter from Dr. Maximowiez, of S. Petersburgh, to Dr. Hooker, 
states :—* We have received a part of Capt. Pozewalsky’ s collections in 
S. W. Mongolia, The most interesting trouvaille of his is, no doubt, 
Pugionium cornutum, and a new species of the same distinguished by 
rose (not white) blossoms and acinaciform processes of the silicle. This 
