294 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
2. Large Trees in Australia.—On this subject the government 
director of the Botanic Garden at Melbourne furnishes some inter- 
esting details, as follows :—‘‘ The marvellous height of some of the 
Australian, and especially the Victorian, trees has become the sub- 
ject of closer in vestigation, since of late—particularly through the 
miners’ gracki-coumel access has been afforded to the back-gullies 
of our mountain system. Some Coe on data, su orted 
evidently not in nowned forest-giants of 
California, Sequoia Wetingrnta, the highest of which, as far as 
the writer is aware, rise their favorite haunts at the Sierra Ne- 
vada, to about 450 feet. ... Thus to Victorian trees the palm 
must be conceded for elevation.”—Mossman’s Origin of the Sea 
sons, p. 
3. Scientific pra ormcien of Dr. Shumard.—We would call at- 
tention to an advertisement of the libr ary, minerals and fossils of 
the late Dr. B. F. Shumard of St. Louis. Dr. Shumard was en- 
gaged in various geological surveys, and his collections are of great 
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OBITUARY. 
Dr. B. F. Saumann, died at St. Louis on the 14th of April, where 
he has resided for the ‘last sixteen years, We are indebted to Dr. 
itton for the following brief sketch of his life. 
The doctor was a man of science in ce highest sense of the 
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his fame wa swe cache not cacti in this country, but in Europe. 
He was President of the St. Louis Academy of Science, and a cor 
