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London in 1866, since which year he has been more or less an invalid, 
and has not, we believe, eating undertaken the duties i his chair. 
He was a foreign member of the —— Society of Lon 
Claude Gay, the sateen historian and botanist of Chil has 
recently died in his ag pee Pp ey ear. He was the author of an 
papers bearing on the same subject. He wasa member of the French 
Institute 
The death of Dr. G. A. Herrich-Schaeffer occurred on April ah 
in the seventy-fifth year of hisage. He was director of the Bay: 
Botanical Society, and editor of the Regensberg periodical ‘ Flora,” 
from Ly to 1871. 
th deep concern we read that there is ve reason to believe 
that the Rev. R. T. Lowe perished in the k of the “ Liberia” 
on his way to Madeira. As i is known to sna ee or readers, this ac- 
complished botanist, and good and amiable man, had been long 
u 
Assembly the ‘restoration at_ the Muséum d’ Histoire Naturelle of 
Jussieu’s Chair of Botany, which was suppressed in 1853, a 
of Adrien de Jussieu, and, by a decree Le January 23 of this yey 
M. Bureau has been named Professor. M. Bureau’s post of aide- 
naturaliste in the Museum thus a has been "filled by M. Max 
The fourth Report of the Royal Commission on Scientific sa 
tion and the Advancement of Science was issued some time 
e one Wé 
knowledge of the present state of both par and the wants of the 
scientific and general public. The outcome of the investigation seems 
likely to be that a establishments will pursue their course se in theit 
own fi as He thert held om 
ivonary oo of the Linnean Society was 06 
Monday, May 25, when Dr. allman was elected President int — 
of Mr. Bentham, a Mr. St. George Mivart, zoologie - 
poring of Mr. Stainton. Contrary to custom there wae gee 
m the chair, but a satisfactory balance-sheet was laid pee 
ed and there w ood deal of conversation cn various ©” 
connected with the tc. conduct of the society. . 
