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and for the best part of it in the city of Savannah, in charge of a 
private school, living alone and with utmost frugality, devoting 
all his earnings to the purchase of books and all his spare time to 
the acquisition of knowledge. During the war of the rebellion he 
took refuge in Florida, teaching when pupils were to be had, 
studying plants at all seasons, and making some interesting dis- 
coveries. Several of these commemorate his name, among them 
a Palafoxia and a pretty little Lobelia. 
Jacos Biaetow, M.D., far the most aged of American botanists, 
died at Boston on the 10th of January, 1879, at the age of 92. 
A brief biography was published in a preceding volume of this 
Journal (xvii, 263), in April last. 
AMES Watson Rossins, M.D., died at Uxbridge, Massachu- 
setts, January 9, 1879, one day before Dr. Bigelow, his only 
senior among American botanists, as he had reached the age of 
A biographical notice of him appeared in the Necrology of 
the preceding year, in February last. 
Hermann Irziasonn, a cryptogamist of considerable repute, 
whose name is connected with researches on the spermatozoids 
of the lower trives of plants, died at Scheneberg, near Berlin, 
January 4, 1879, at the age of 65. 
OHAN ANGsTROM, a distinguished bryologist, of Sweden, died 
January 19th, at the age of 65. 
. Burx, favorably known for his indexes to DeCandolle’s 
Prodromus, died at Hamburg, February 10th, at the age of 83. 
H. G. L. Retcuensacu, the veteran German systematic bot- 
anist and in his day a voluminous author, a man greatly respected 
and honored, died at Dresden, March 17, at the age of 86. 
orchidologist of our time, bearing the same name, is the son, now 
Professor of Botany at Hamburg. 
H. R. A. Grisesacu, Professor at Gottingen, and one of the 
most prominent and voluminous systematic botanists of our day, 
died May 9, in his 66th year. His earliest considerable work was 
& Monograph of the Gentianee, in 1839. His most important 
one, a comprehensive treatise on the Vegetation of the Earth, was 
published in 1872; his latest, Symbol ad Floram Argentinam, 
appeared about the time of his unexpected decease. He is well 
rag West Indies, one of the earlier of the English Colonial 
as, 
Tuto Iraiscu, an acute morphologist, author of many valuable 
Ropers, especially on the subterranean parts of plants, died at 
ndershausen, aon , April 28, at the age of 64. 
OUARD Spacu, native of Strasburg, for very many years the 
keeper of the Herbarium at the Paris Museum, Jardin des Plantes, 
in the earlier portion of his scientific life a voluminous author, an 
acute systematic botanist, a worthy representative of the school 
