192 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Sir mr Low, who died at Alassio in April, was born at Clapton, 
10 May, 1824. His name is associated with some of the most re- 
markable plants of Borneo, to which he paid his first visit at the 
age of nineteen. Here he became acquainted with Mr. (afterwards 
Sir) James a with whom he was afterwards intimately asso- 
iated. e species of Vepenthes collected by him on Kina Balu in 
1851 form the subject of a paper by Sir Joseph Hooker in Trans. 
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his retirement in 1889. He was created K.C.M.' 883, an 
ellow of the Linnean Society in 1894. 
Tae death is announced of JoHNn 8 who went out from 
Kew to the Botanic Gardens, Mauritius us, in 1860. In 1871 and 
for osed e 
jenied: by Mr. Baker in this Journal for 1879 (p. 292), include 
Alsophila Hornet. Horne hae: Director of the Mauritius Gardens 
in 1877, and resigned the post in 1892 on account of ill health. 
He al pag lived at St. Clements, Jersey. He became a Fellow 
of the = n Society in 1873 
ee of the oat Flora der Schweiz, by Prof. 
Hans Schinz and Dr. R. Kel ler pro me Ziirich) is to be in two 
perks, of which the first, the ‘“‘Exkursionsflora,” is before us. It 
is an extremely handy chink, admirably adapted for a companion 
in the field, although numbering over 600 pages, being convenient 
but for English botanists—is that it is written in German; we are 
inclined to think that an English translation would be worth under- 
taking, although perhaps oe — edition of the invaluable 
‘* Gremli” supplies what is n 
Tue recent issues of the Nee from the Edinburgh Botanic 
Garden are mainly occupied with an account of George and 
his work, by Mr. G. C. Druce, of which we shall have more to iy 
later on. 
We learn from the Daily Dns of May 16 that, ‘‘ Speaking : 
the Royal Institution on Saturday on ‘ Fungi’ Professo r Ward said 
there was a — called ‘ lurking fungi.’ These generally attacked 
ee poe a way, went to sleep between the seed and be husk, 
se pniatinete, and had caused epidemics in the past. It was 
his belie that beri-beri was since solely by a ‘lurking fangi’ in 
the The Westminster Gazette of the following day, writing 
of Gonnsitiads: says, Heel alone fuchsias gladden the heart of this 
ie so favoured by nature. Other wild jive? in their due season 
to be found in abundance, some most rare 
