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en was weak, he did not write down any details of the _— 
collected, mm he could tell all these when asked with unerr 
precision, well as relate the varied incidents, itenuibiiian 
humourous, ovine r hard, connected with their discovery. T 
names and localities have been success sfully obtained from him 
car re- 
markable than the life spent by many working-men sa are in 
es: and Yorkshire at the present time. In saying this we 
are far from wishing to eee in the faintest degree the subject 
of this nike we only wish to show that so gratifying a trait is 
probably more widely extended Cae the readers and writers of 
the lives of men of the Duncan stamp are apt to suppose. 
We learn from the ‘ Botanisches Centralblatt’ that Dr. OLur 
Enerotn, the author of the ‘Svensk Pomona,’ an elaborately 
illustrated work, died at Upsala on 21st May last. He was born 
15th April, 1825, and was therefore in his fifty-sixth year. 
Marrutas Jaxos Scutewen, who died 23rd June of this year at 
Frankfurt-am-Main, was born 5th April, 1804, at Hamburg 
was intended for the legal profession, but not liking it he pat 
his attention to botany, and in 1839 was appointed Professor at 
Jena; in 1863 being transferred to Dorpat. Pritzel gives fifteen 
titles, exclusive of translations, as proceeding from his pen, the 
most widely-known being his ‘ Grundziige der wissenschaftlichen 
Botanik’ in 1842-48, of which an English version, by Dr. Edwin 
Lankester, was issued in 1849. His latest productions were ‘ Die 
Rose, Geschichte und Symbolik,’ in 1873; and a pamphlet on the 
importance of the Jews in the Middle Ages, in 1877. 
Micuart Paxennam Epexworts, brother of Miss Edgeworth the 
novelist, died on the 30th of July in the island of Higg, can ye" 
shire, aged 69. He belonged to the Civil Service Department 
of the Bengal Presidency, and paid great attention to botany aa 
in I $ principal papers on the subject are :—‘‘ Descriptions 
of some unpublished species of plants from North- “Western India,” 
in the Linnean Society’s Transactions, vol. xx.; “ Catalogue of 
plants found in the Banda district, 1847-49” ; ae ‘A couple of 
hours’ herborisation at Aden,”’ in vol: xxvi. of the ‘ Journal of the 
Asiatic Society of 7 ioe and his ‘‘Florula Mallica” and ‘“ Flora 
of Banda,” in the d 9th volumes of the ‘ Journal of the Lin- 
nean Soaely His ms se recent systematic work isin the ‘ Flora 
of British India,’ for which (in 1874), in conjunction with Sir J. D. 
ooker, he monographed the Caryophyllacee. His collections are 
in the Kew Herbarium. He came home to England many years 
ago, with health a good roe holga and since then has resided 
in me neighbourhood of on. ; the pie years of his 
