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within thirty miles of Amherst/ published by Prof. Eel. Tuckerman 

 and himself in 1875. 



DWARD 



on the Flora of Lord Howe Island,' died at Sydney on the 17th 

 March, at the age of sixty-one years. 



We regret to announce the death of Thomas Atthey, A.L.S., 

 which occurred at Gosforth on the 14th April. He investigated 

 especially the Diatomacea, of which he discovered several new 

 species, published in the ' Annals and Magazine of Natural History/ 



The well-known traveller and plant-collector, Franz Klaboch, 

 died last February in Mexico. 



Mr. W. T. T. Dyer, of Kew, has been elected a Fellow of the 

 Royal Society. 



Mr. R. A. Rolfe has been appointed Junior Assistant in the 

 Kew Herbarium— he being the successful candidate in the public 

 competition for that post. 



Mr. John Scott, latterly head of the Herbarium Department of 

 the Botanic Gardens, Calcutta, has recently died at Garwald, East 

 Lothian, aged forty-two years. Mr. Scott received his early 

 training, under the late Mr. Macnab, in the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Edinburgh. His contributions to the ' Transactions of 

 the Edinburgh Botanic Society' and the ' Journal of the Linnean 

 Society ' attracted the notice of Mr. Darwin, for whom he carried 

 out various experiments. Having received his Indian appointment, 

 Mr Scott, in the course of his duties, went to Darjeeling, to report 

 on the opium poppy disease. Soon after, he contracted the disease 

 of the spleen, of which he died. He has left a quantity of 

 interesting MSS. Among his more recent contributions to science 

 is a paper entitled, "Notes on the Tree Ferns of British Sikkim, 

 with descriptions of three new species, and a few supplemental 

 remarks on their relations to Palms and Cycads," and published in 

 the . Transactions of the Linnean Society,' vol. xxx., part I. 



Lady Wilkinson and Mr. Cabruthers are engaged in editing a 

 series of illustrations of the ' Desert Plants of Egypt,' which will 

 consist of reproductions of the drawings made by Sir Gardner 

 Wilkinson during the years from 1823 to 1830, which he spent in 

 surveying and mapping the desert regions of Upper and Lower 

 •agypt. Lady Wilkinson is collecting all the plant-references 

 which occur in his MSS., with the view of placing on record these 

 valuable observations. The plants which Sir Gardner Wilkinson 



nvit°, I i ?"¥ hlS ex l )lorat ions in the Egyptian deserts, were 

 presented by him to the British Museum, and are now in the 

 nerbanum of that institution. From these and from the drawings, 

 Mi. Carruther.s will prepare descriptions of the plants which will 

 give a scientific value to the publication. The plates will amount 

 io lorty, each containing several subjects accurately reproduced on 

 °"- n by *£, D - Blair ' F - L -S-> and coloured after the original 



*T? gS ' , ™" Slze of &* work will be royal quarto, and the 

 pi ice to subscribers MS 8s. 



