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MUNRO , 



C.B., which occurred at his residence, Montys Court, near Taunton, 

 on the 29th of January, at the age of about sixty-four. General 

 Muuro had seen active service in India and in the Crimea ; his last 

 military appointment was that of General Commanding-in-Chief 

 in the West Indies in 1870. As a botanist General Munro was 

 most distinguished by his knowledge of the Graminea, to which 

 Order he had for many years past devoted his leisure time, and 

 upon which he was justly regarded as the leading authority. At 



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of the whole Order, which was intended to form one of the series ot 

 monographs now being issued by the MM. DeCandolle in continua- 

 tion of the ' Prodromus.' It is to be regretted that this remains 

 incomplete, so that much of the great knowledge acquired by 

 General Munro has passed away with him. His most important 

 memoir was that on the Bambusece, which included descriptions of 

 all the species, and was published in the \ Transactions' of the 

 Linnean Society in 1870. His extensive knowledge of grasses was 

 at the disposal of all who consulted him. Mr. Bentham (' Fl. 

 Australiensis,' vii., 450) speaks in very warm terms of the assistance 

 he received from General Munro in elaborating the Gr amine® of 

 Australia ; he determined the grasses of Hong-Kong for Seemann's 

 ' Botany of the Herald,' and his assistance in critical matters has 

 been gratefully acknowledged in the pages of this Journal. His last 

 work was the determination of the grasses brought from Afghanistan 

 by Dr. Aitchison, which he completed only a week or two before his 

 death. General Monro's attention, although principally directed to 

 the Graminea, was not confined to them : in the ' Garden ' for 

 December last he published a descriptive review, signed with his 

 initials, of Himalayan Primroses. Sir J. D. Hooker, in a letter to 

 the ■ Times/ says :— "He was a first-rate practical gardener, and 

 established soldiers' gardens wherever he was stationed for any 

 length of time, in India, Canada, the West Indies, &c, and botanical 

 ones, I believe, at Agra and elsewhere." General Munro leaves 

 a place among systematic botanists which bids fair to remain long 



vacant. He has bequeathed his collections and MSS. to the Kew 

 Herbarium. 



Charles Henry Godet, of Neufchatel, died on the 16th of 

 December last, in the eighty-third year of his age. He was the 

 author of the < Flore du Jura' (1853), and of two or three papers 

 connected with local botany. 



The death is also announced of Ferdinand Lindheimer, the 

 collector of the ■ Plantae Lindheimeriana?,' at New Braunfels, Mexico, 

 at the age of about seventy-eight. 



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by the Botanical Department of the British Museum. His MS. 

 material for the Flora of Oxfordshire is now in the possession of 



Mr. G. C. Druce, of Oxford. 



