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he entered on the study of pharmacy in 1822, and passed the 
a 
wife in 1840 he left his business and went to Dresden, where he 
ae cied himself entirely to botanical studies. He obtained the 
degree of Doctor in Jena in 1841. From 1849, when fom matri 
a second time, to 1875, he remained in Dresden, prosecuting his 
work. In the latter year he removed to Villa Luisa, near Meissen. 
Age, and an a thcregs of the heart, with its consequences, overtook 
m, and, in spite of his residence in the country, from which he 
had hoped i relief, at last ended in his death on the 24th of April 
of this year. As early as the time of his pharmaceutical studies, 
Tiksaberst ‘earnestly carried on —- oe as appears 
om the ‘Flora Lusatica,’ published in 1839-40; but afters his 
removal to Dresden his activity in eoesaieat matters siiecomhel 
is works are so well known to our readers that it will not 
be necessary to say much of them here. A critica. fea very just 
estimate of them appeared in the ‘ Botanische Zeitung’ for the 8th 
of July agit bksriees by Prof. de Bary, from which the information 
as to his life given here is taken. Of perhaps his most useful 
work—the published sets of ae page Me may be rolthe S 
say that end receive the highest praise from the Professor. 
point as to the n ature of these collections it may be well to sibtiea 
e their 
usefulness will heartily concur. In addition to his ahaha eet 
books, he was editor until 1878 of ‘ Hedwigia.” 
Joun Duncan, ‘ weaver and botanist,’ died at Alford, Aberdeen- 
at on the 9th of Aug ust. He was born at ne a ee in 
early period took much interest in Natural History. In 1835 he 
made the acquaintance of Charles Black, a working man, twenty 
years his junior, and apparently a man of a wider range of study 
and a more liberal education; and from that time his scientific 
study of plants may be pape to date. ‘His ripe jeer of the local 
of Aberdee “ His memory tong as dating as “his use of the 
