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Botanical Netos. 



Coe F. Austin died at Closter, New Jersey, on the 18th of 

 March, aged forty-eight years. He was for some years the Curator 

 of the Torrey Herbarium, and in 1867 contributed the description 

 of the Lemmacm to Gray's ' Manual,' besides describing several 

 new phanerogams; but his most important work was in connection 

 with muscology, and especially Htpatiem ; £ manual jn the North 

 American species of the last-named group was in preparation by 

 him at the time of his death. His last work was to describe the 

 Hepatic® for the * Botany of California.' He also published sets of 

 the Mosses and Liverworts of the United States. 



Mr. H. N. Eidley has been appointed an Assistant in the 

 Department of Botany, British Museum. 



Mr. W. T. Thiselton Dyer read a paper " On the Botanical 



Enterprise of the Empire," at the meeting of the Boyal Colonial 



Institute, held on May 11th. This is printed in extenso in ' The 



Colonies and India' for May 15th; it contains an interesting 



account of the work performed by the various botanical gardens in 

 our colonies. 



Nils J. Andersson, the well-known Swedish botanist and 

 traveller, died on the 27th March, at Stockholm, in his sixtieth 

 year. He took part in the expedition of the frigate < Eugenie ' 

 round the earth in 1851-58, and afterwards published several 

 small treatises as the result of his explorations. In 1855 he was 

 appointed Demonstrator of Botany at Lund, but in the following 

 year he was called to Stockholm as Professor of Botany and 

 Superintendent of the Botanical Department of the Eoyal Museums ; 

 in 1879 he retired from his active duties, having during his pro- 

 fessorship made numerous scientific journeys to different parts of 

 the Continent. Besides several smaller works, he published various 

 systematic treatises, especially upon the Salices ; the monograph of 

 ,7™ F? up m the sixteeutl i volume of DeCandolle's ' Prodromus ' 



(1864) is from his pen. 



Secretary 



_~. ^. ^s^wn yA ^suiN, who was elect ea secretary 01 *ne uiu- 

 ?2£ b0 £ let y on tlie 2 4th nit., became a Fellow of the Society in 

 IBM). He has devoted much attention to vegetable histology, ha 



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ami is well known as a painstaking British botanist. His reprint 

 of 1 umer's ' Libi llus,' and of the Catalogue of Gerard's garden, 

 Have been duly noticed in our columns, and manifested a critical 

 acquaintance with the early synonymv of the plants included in 

 these works. His recent researches" in botanical bibliography 

 render him peculiarly well fitted for the post to which he has been 

 elected : we may direct attention to his paper on the subject which 

 appears in the present number of this Journal. 



