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BOTANICAL NEWS. 



resumption of the work of the great ' Flora Brasiliensis,' the 

 former grant for which expired some two or three years ago. The 

 editorship rests, as before, in the hands of Dr. Eichler, and there 

 are several important orders still unallotted. 



A pension of £100 per annum from the Civil List has been 

 awarded to Mr. W. H. Fitch, the well-known botanical artist, 

 in consideration of his services to science. 



The English Dialect Society announces for early is3ue a reprint 

 of William Turner's rare ' Names of Herbes.' It will be edited and 

 annotated by Mr. James Britten. 



We regret to announce the death of Wilhelm Schimpeb, the 



eminent muscologist and palaeontologist, which took place at 



btrasburg on March 20th. We hope to give a fuller notice next 

 month. 



t Robert Fortune, the well-known plant collector and traveller 

 in China died on the 13th ult. at Bromptou, aged sixty-eight 

 years. Although his numerous discoveries were important chiefly 

 Irom the horticultural standpoint, he made collections of dried 

 plants during his various travels in China ; these were distributed 

 by the Royal Horticultural Society, who commissioned him to 

 collect, and are found in many herbaria. In 1846 he was appointed 

 Curator of the Chelsea Botanic Garden, but this appointment he 

 soon resigned, and devoted himself to the collection in China 

 ot young tea plants and seeds for transmission to India. His 

 various works, based upon his travels, are weU known. 



Mutius Tommasini, the Nestor of Austrian botanists, died at 

 Irieste on the 2nd of January, in his eighty-sixth year. He 



pubhshed Very ] ! ttle ' but th * value of his private epistolary com- 

 munications is shown by frequent references in the works of Koch, 

 ±Jeitoloni, and Parlatore. His large herbarium and library has 

 been bequeathed to the Trieste Museum. A lengthened biography 

 of lommasini appeared in the Oest. Bot. Zeitschrift for 1866. 



the k'l^'/f nT ND i' b ° 1 1 ' n in 1807 ' died > on the 17fch of March ' ? 

 h,a * w n ° eknd ' • Where he had resi ded for many years. He 

 Publish^ ? 7 'T 8 ^^ 1 the Flora of Oeland, of which he 

 for Tain tt E » umer ^° ' in the Acta Soc. Scient. Upsal 



och Oelands Fin 1 ? ? *??<***?* P ubli ^tion was the « Colmar Laus 

 ocn uelands Flora/ published at Kolmar in 1863. 



the St?;™ died T at Brai »ischweig on the 26th of March at 

 Plant! oil nl ? y ' S p * His P rinci P al ™ k ™> on the cultivated 

 he also w/! m i GeVman forestr y' Published at Berlin in 1851 ; 

 Jie also wiote several papers upon vegetable morphology. 



Buiten™™ i,S °' B °2" CT1 R ' Director of the Botanic Gardens at 

 iiuitenzorg, died recently at the early age of thirty-five. 



f Colombo SS ' ° f *? e - Ceyl ° n Branch of the R °y al Asiatic S0Ci f ty 



St; byMl-: ESZSjgg 1 * with notes > of Ceylon 



