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o as the new year advanced, apprehension disappeared. Upon 
aster Monday he was apparently well, and so r —S to nightly 
rest ; in the morning he was found to sat died in 
Lovts ALPHONSE DE BREBIssoN, died at Falaise i in Norma ndy, 
April 26, 1872, at the age of 74 years. Besides the Flora of his 
native province, which "passed through four editions, 
good papers upon Alga@, he was distinguished for his collections 
and kn owledge of Diatomacece. 
OBERT W rae M.D., es at his — near gen 
Biland, May 26, 1872, at the age of 76 years. He was born i 
East Lothian, Scotland, educated at the Eaiaburgh High School, 
and professionally at idinburgh University, where he took his 
medical degree in 1816. He went to India, the field of his botan- 
ical career ri most iseful administrative activity for forty pe 
in 1819. He was first assis stant surgeon an afterward full su 
geon of a native eo pin in the E. India Company’s service ; 
a 
spicuous place in Hooker’s Botanical Miscellany, commencing in 
1830, and in the continuations of that work under other names and 
firms. In 1834, after a temporary sojourn in his native city, ap- 
peared the first volume of a model flora, the Prodromus Flore 
Peninsula, Indice Orientalis, e Dr. Wight and Mr. (afterwards 
Pr. ‘otessor) ‘Arnott, of which their successors in the field remarked, 
that it is the most able and valuable contribution to Indian botany 
which has ever appeared, and one which has few rivals in thewhole 
domain of botanical literat ture. Dr, Wight returned to ener im- 
u 
lustrations of Indian Bo otany,” with 182 colored plates; his Spi- 
cilegium Radel amine of similar character, and finally hi his Icones 
Plant ntarum Indie Orientalis, in 6 volumes, with 2101 uncolored. 
. 
he had r 
pes ne cis Reuter, the Director of the Botanic Garden 
at Geneva, Seciczertond, for many years the companion in botani- 
cal journeys and investigation of M. Boisser, and the curator - 
ns vast berhavinu, died on Be 22d of May last, at the age of abou 
ears, elaborated the Orobanchacew for De Candolle’ : 
P, eaditigete published a as of the late of the vicinity of 
Geneva, an Essay on the Vegetation of es &c.; and was a 
man grvaulg esteemed by all who knew him 
