118 CARL JOHANN MAXIMOWICZ. 
at Lochinver.—Var. abbr 
2200 feet ; paths a depauperate alpine state than ety. 
Equisetum pratense Ehrh. Up to 2700 feet on a Ardran ; 
Lycopodium alpinum L. A very marked form grows plentifully 
near the Allt Dubh Chala, at 1250 feet (88), among long heather, 
with Listera cordata sycopodium ais whi ch, from its 
extremely flattened bramnhes, &c., was referr ed pretty confidently 
to L. complanatum L. Mr. H. rime however, disputes that 
naming, — he is correct, judging from a Norway specimen kindly 
ther we really have true complanatum in Britain 
at all Aas “somewhat doubtful. 
Chara fragilis Desv. Neat Lochinve 
Nitella opaca Agardh. Small loch Zan the inn, Kyleskue (108). 
CARL JOHANN MAXIMOWICZ. 
Dr. Orro Srapr contributes to Nature of March 12th an —— 
notice of Maximowicz, from which we extract the following :— 
Cart Jowann Maxtmowicz, who died at St. Petersburg on 
February 16th, after a& few days’ illness, was born at Jula in 1827. 
He went early to St. Petersburg, where he was brought up. In 
1844 he left the Russian capital for the University of Dorpat. 
After completing his studies, he was appointed Director’s Assistant 
at the Botanical Garden at Dorpat, a post he held until 1852, when 
he was made Conservator of the Imperial Botanical Garden at 
- Petersburg. The followin hon he set out on a voyage around 
world on board the frigate ‘ Diana,’ his chief task being to make 
sudiiaibicne of living plants for the Botanical Age at St. Peters- 
burg. The ‘Diana’ visited Rio de Janeiro, Valparaiso, and 
Honolulu; but when war was declared a the Western Powers 
against Russi a, She was compelled to call at the nearest amie 
harbour, a Castries on the coast of Mantchuria, at that time the 
youngest, arcely an organised, Russian colony. Tachatties 
had to Dave the frigate, and decided at once to go up the River 
Amur, and to explore its banks and the ots ia country, which 
was then little known. Though furnished with only limited means, 
“* ae out his task, under great difficulties and severe privations, 
successful manner. He returned to St. Petersburg by 
way rot f Stberia i in 1857, 
The next two years he devoted entirely to the working out of 
his Primitia Flore Amurensis, which appeared in 1859, and contained 
a full enumeration of his botanical collections, and a most clear 
exposition of Se general eel features of the country visited by 
particularly of its tht te Saat era character. Imme- 
diately after, the full Demidoff Prize was awarded to him in 
