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264 Scientific Intelligence. 
Ludolf Christian Treviranus, Professor of Botany in Bonn University, 
the Nestor of botanical professors, and one of the very oldest botanists in 
Germany, died at Poppelsdorf, May 6, 1864. His age is not mentioned. 
But the earliest of his numerous works recorded by Pritzel (the best of 4 
which are physiological) was published in the year 1806. The latest of ? 
dl extent was his elaboration of the genus Carex for Ledebour’s Flora 
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Dr. Hermann Schacht, a distinguished vegetable anatomist and physi- 
ologist, and author of several well known works, formerly an assistant of 
Schleiden at Jena, was appointed to the chair at Bonn vacated by the 
eath of Treviranus. is health, however, had of late years been mu: 
impaired ; and he had barely entered upon the duties of his honorable 
position when, on the 20th of August, 1864, he died, at Poppelsdorf, at 
the age of 50. 
Adolf Scheele, pastor at Heersum, near Hildesheim, author of several 
papers in the Linnza, died Sept. 7, 1864, in the 57th year of his age 
He appears to have been a botanist of considerable merit; which, how- 
ever, was not greatly shown in his contributions to the Flora of Texas, 
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by his friend Prof. Romer, who placed them in his hands. 
Johannes Wilhelm Sturm, a name distinguished in German botany for 
have already appeared in this Journal. oe 
ir Robert Hermann Schomburgk, who did much for botany 1n his ex- 
ploration of British Guiana about 30 years ago, and by whose agency 
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Schénbrunn, died there on the Sth of February, 1865, at the age 
years. Although he had written upon Ferns and other departments 
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_ Sir Joseph Paxton, whose decease, on the 5th of June last, in the 62nd = 
year of his age, has already been recorded in this Journal (xl, p- 140), 
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