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OBITUARY. 
Frepericx Naytor died at Kew on the 21st December last, aged 
three papers — ‘ On the Flora of Saee: ‘On Rare Plants col- 
lected [in 1863] in the South-west of ae and ‘On Asple- 
nium Petrarche D.C., as an Irish Plant’—to the Transactions of 
the “tein oe of Edinburgh, of which he was a Fellow. 
He had a large and valuable collection of the autographs of 
botanists. 
Baron Vincent Cesavt, Director of the Botanic Garden at 
Naples, and until recently Professor of Botany atthe University 
there, died on the 18th of February last. He was born at Milan 
on the 24th of May, 1806. His attention was mainly devoted to 
ungi, upon which he published numerous memoirs; but his 
“earlier publications were upon flowering plants: among which may 
be mentioned that on the Umbellifere of the Swiss, German, and 
North Italian Floras 1688), and oe : eee Italice rariores’ 
(1840), for which he also drew the plates. His last work, 
bibliography of Italian Madier appeared | in the Comptes-rendus 
of the Naples Academy of Sciences in 1882. 
ORSEFIELD, one of the ‘ working-men botanists’ of 
Manchester, died at Besses-o’-the-Barn, near that town, on the 
of the Banksian Society of Manchester. From his boyhood he 
entered heartily into “the study of botany, and in company with 
another well- ences botanist, James Percival, he ra — over 
some of the most beautiful parts of Yorkshire and Dur For 
y years he was president of the Prestwich Potaieal "Becket, 
ay for towers of twenty years he faithfully filled the office of 
postman at Whitefield. He was highly respected in the or a 
hood in which he lived as a man whose character out 
reproach. He was returning from a meeting of the Botanical Soriety 
when he was seized with an illness from which he ney 
Epwin Cio of Ashton, another of the old Tealaishces aoe: 
nists, ied, after: a Saat nee on the 8th of February. He took 
an active part in the formation and management of many of the 
working men’s botanical Ee of that district. 
. Wrtu1am Epw. , Director of the Science and Art 
Museum, Dublin, died at that fase on aay 6th, aged 66. He was 
the author of a ‘ Handbook of Field Botany,’ published at Dublin 
in 1847, of which a second edition appeared in 1851, but does not 
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Secretary of the Royal Dublin Society. About three months before 
his death Dr. Steele was seized with an attack of paralysis, from 
which he never recovered. 
