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of Philosophy at Berlin, where he resided for some years, and was 

 in 1856 elected a member of the Academy of Sciences. In 1864 he 

 took Schleiden's place at Jena, and during his four year- there 

 founded an institute for the study of plant-physiology, an experi- 

 ment which was rapidly followed in other universities and colleges. 

 In 1868 he was back again in Berlin, and, preferring to work on 

 his own lines, started a botanical laboratory and "a school of 

 botanists, many of whom are well known as original workers and 

 teacht rs. Pringsheim's most valuable work was in connection with 

 the sexual process among the cellular plants, in which he followed 

 up the work of Thuret and others. His researches on chlorophyll 

 led him to a view of the function of the green colouring-matter 



botanists. In estimating his work, we must not omit the well- 

 known Jahrbiicher fiir ivissensr},,t/tlirhr Ih.tanik, started in 1857, in 

 itself a small botanical library, the continued existence of which, 

 and similar works, is evidence of a deeper interest in pure science 



Alhw Ei.waud Lomax di. d of cerebral inflammation at Liver- 

 pool on May 4th, at the early age of thirty-three. He was the son 

 of a Canon of Ely, and settled in Liverpool as a pharmaceutical 

 chemist, holding also the post of dispenser at the Northern Dis- 

 pensary. Modest and retiring by nature, he led a secluded though 

 active life, the whole of his leisure being devoted to botai 

 suits. He was an early riser, and much of his local botany was 

 done before folk in general were up. He had a valuable herbarium, 



a large number of the specimens were acquired by exchange, Mr. 



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this Journal for 1893 (p. 331), his 



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He published notes from tir 

 an active member of the Wa 



By the death of Louis Figuieb, which took place at Paris 



ty-fourth year, we have been depri 



i the 



8th of November. 



of one of the most indefatigable popul; 



branch of science, many of which have been translated into most 

 European languages. His Histoire des Plantes which annp«rpd in 



and edited by the notorious C. 0. Groom-who subsequently styled 

 'Y !1 ~* !l ' \°' G ™ i,! Na P ler > a ^ later, "H.S.H. the Prince of 

 Mantua and Montferrat "-and published in 1868 under the title of 

 The lettable World. Some of the humours of this ridi-'— 

 translation are quoted in this Journal for 1872 (v 347) 

 course of a notice of ? — 1 -• 1 v ~ • 



