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title of this was somewhat ill-chosen, asthe plants of the whole pigateu 
of England areincluded in the first part, whilst the second is a com- 
plete British Flora; the book contains a great aie of original 
localities, acerca in Surrey, and was arranged upon the natural 
system, at that time by no means in general use. Several papers on 
local botany were oonGbuel to the ‘* Phytologist” about this period 
y Mr. Irvine. In 1851 he took up his — at - helsea, _ he 
continued to live till his death, making every yea sates ng count 
on 
Botany, which aid not proced far ; the material, collected during many 
years, was however used in the “ Illustrated Han book of British 
i vin 
language. The order followed is that of Cosson and Germain’s ‘‘ Flore 
des environs de Paris” reversed; a large number of exotic casuals 
nnou 
Irvine to be in preparation ; but the infirmities of age were increasing 
rapidly, and on May 13th he died, somewhat suddenly, at the age of 
ea It is difficult to estimate aright his — on British 
absence of arrangement evident in a his writings often led to inaccu- 
racies. He possessed an extensive knowledge of the old botanical authors 
and of plant-distribution. The new series of the ‘ Phytologist ’’ never 
reached the position of its ke though it perhaps occupied 
that at po it aimed; for it must be remembered that Mr. Irvine 
always wrote for the non- ciientiiet: am and his efforts to spread among 
them such a Lwwieilee of British Botany as that which was the-great 
delight = solace of “his long life were to a great extent successful. 
His later excursions were chiefly into Essex, and it is believed that he 
had ae amend additions to the published Flora of that 
county 4 
By the death from pneumoni ia of W. 8. Sullivant at Columbus, 
Ohio, on the 30th April, the United States lose their most accom- 
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