272 Botany and Zoology. 
by Mrs. Boott as a tribute to the memory _ her late a has 
just come to hand, and will be received as reat boo n by the 
lovers of Carex, Pe still feel the loss of their bi der and master. 
A full notice of the work will find a place in the ensuing n ee 
A. 
7. Botanical Necrology for 1867, concluded.—The fellow ar- 
ticles were excluded from the last number, for want of room. 
Dr. C. H. Scuvurirz (Bipont ints a distinguished botanist who - 
devoted his attention almost exclusively to Composite, and has 
. brought together an extremely rich herbarium in that vast family, 
died at his home in Deides oe Rhenish Bavaria, on the 17th of 
December last, at the age of 62 years. He had brought together 
llege, died, at Oxfo vi on the ‘12th of December last, in the 
73d year of his is age. He was Professor of Chemistry in the Uni- 
versity, from 1822 down to 1855, when upon the reorganization 
and extension of scientific studies in the niversity—largely due 
to his own efforts arid influe ert = ed that chair to the 
present incum oa arses of Botany mm 
1834, and Professor of Rural alee: in 1840, when by the com- 
pletion of the publication of the Flora Graca Sibthorp’s endow- 
ment became available. | 
As chemist, geologist, one of the founders of the British Asso- 
ciation, and an active Bete of natural and physical science in 
various departments, i 
memo 
ble 
g. His first paper upon such subjects years later than 
his volume upon volcanoes, issued in 1826), “On the d gree 0 
lection exercised by the Roots of Plants,” probably brought forward 
scientific if. not'a botanical incum ent, a so sec g 
ment of Dr. Dauben o qualif ‘hme for this ee he be- 
came a wear - ee an = in 
has quite sor a assum i physicists) of the so- 
chiefly efficient in the I ition ygen 
a from the the pies parts of plants, apd therefi in assimilation. 
has been foll ollowed by many other papers oF leetures upon st 
