BOTANICAL NEWS. 159 
from Barma, Pegu, Tenasserim, and the Andamans. Three are Com= 
posite, and the cere soe belong to the orders which are in “English 
descriptive works before t at group. are 
deseribed—_Apteron (Rhamnea) and Zollingeria Ecepeieees) _Part 
is in the pr Furthe particulars of these p be given in 
A eis ues act of Hildebrand’s paper on the minis of 
Grasses appears in the ‘‘ Gardener’s Chronicle” for Ma and 22. 
In refer rence to the ann nouncement made in our number for Decent 
translation has been entrusted to Lage A. W. Bennett, who will also 
annotate the English edition, and will be obiietalt in this by Prof. 
2 tata her It is pe hee to a ready by about the end of the 
yea 
Mr. S. Kurz’s report on the flora and forests of Pegu is in the 
press, and will be shortly published by the Indian Government. 
Mr. C owright, of King’s Lynn, proposes to issue, under the 
title of Sphariacei Britannici, a few sets of ni specimens "of British 
Spherias. The price of each set will be 
M. E. Cosson has been elected a cdies of the Académie des 
Sciences. 
M - Holmes, Curator of the Pharmaceutical Society’s Museum, 
has been appointed lecturer on Botany a Westminster Hospital. 
By death from pneumonia of ohn Torrey, on March 
10th, the United States lose the oldest and one of the most 
eminent botanists in the country. Born at New York in 1796, he 
growing in the fear: ood oF New York. This was followed in 
tions of the United States,” and since that date Dr. Torrey has bee 
perhaps the foremost botanist in opening up the floras of new districts 
of North America. Many of his papers are in Reports and Trans- 
actions ; his ‘‘ Flora of the State of New —— ”’ (1843), and the un- . 
finished «« Flora of North America,” written in conjunction with Dr. 
. Tra ? 
he lief also distinguished as a chemist, and at the time o 
death held the office of Superintendent of the Government Assay 
Office. Some years ago he presented his vast herbarium and library to 
the Columbia College of New York. Dr. Torrey’s name is comme- 
morated in the Coniferous genus Zorreya of Walker Amott. 
The death is announced, on March 13th, at Vienna, of J. G. 
at the age of sixty-nine. He was the author vg papers and stirigaohs 
on the Bromeliacce and other Monocotyledon 
We have received a circular proposing the formation of a society, 
