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OBITUARY. 



The death is announced of Dr. C. M. Gottsche, of Altona, on 

 Sept. 28th last, at a ripe old age. Born July 3rd, 1808, at Altona, 

 where he practised as a Doctor of Medicine, he early had his attention 

 directed to the study of the Hepatic®, which in his leisure time he 

 pursued with an enthusiasm and careful diligence which won for him 

 the admiration of all students. In 1842 appeared his first important 

 work, Unter suchung en uber Haplomitrinm Hookeri, &c, illustrated by 

 eight beautifully coloured plates. In 1844, conjointly with Nees and 

 Lindenberg, he published the Synopsis Hepaticarum, which for 

 nearly half a century has been the student's handbook. In 1855 

 Rabenhorst issued the first part of his Hepatic® europcca exsiccatce. 

 After the appearance of a few parts, Gottsche joined him in the 

 editorship, and soon after took the sole responsibility. Parts con- 

 tinued to be issued up to 1879, when the last decades, 65 and 66, 

 were published. With each part interesting notes were given, often 

 illustrated by beautiful drawings. I believe he learnt the 'art of 

 engraving for the sole purpose of reproducing his accurate drawings. 

 In 1863 appeared, what Prof. Underwood has lately described as 

 his matchless Mexikanske Levermosser, being a description of the 

 Hepatic® collected in Mexico by Liebmann ; it is a very fine 

 work, beautifully illustrated, the drawings being the very ideal of 

 perfection. In 1864 he published in the Ann. Sc. Nat. his 

 Hepatic® Novo- Gran atensis, and about the same time and in the 

 same Annates his Pugillus Nov. Hep., both papers exquisitely 

 illustrated. In 1880 his Neuere Unter suchunq en uber die Junqer- 



mannm Geocahjcem appeared, and although in his seventy-second 

 year the same thoroughness distinguished his work, and the 

 drawings of the minute organs, dissected under the microscope, 

 snowed that his pencil had lost none of its skill. In 1882 he 

 contributed a paper to the Abhandl. uat. vet; Bremen, on the 

 Hepatic® of Madagascar ; and during the last few years, along with 

 Dr. V. Schiffner described the Hepatic® collected on the Expe- 

 dition i of 8.M.S. 'Gazelle.' He enumerated the Australian 

 Hepatic® for Baron Mueller, contributed descriptions of Hepatic® 

 tc >* ion, Damca and numerous short papers to Hedwiqia and other 



™?T\ -i ^\r Th f He P atic£B collected by Wright in Cuba, 

 and distributed as Wright's Hepatic® Cubenses, were named by him 



"tS Hepatic® collected by Husnot in the Antilles 



fa ZT T alU \° 8t GVery parfc of the world bein S ^nt to him 

 for determination. As a correspondent he was unique • his letters 



appeared to be the work of weeks, like treatises, Z g 'and fa of 



ac ssi^r ° nes : -^ •**-? s — 



W. H. Pearson. 



