78 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
Kart Kocn, the prince of horticultural botanists and a most 
learned dendrologist, born at Weimar in 1809, ae of Asia 
Minor and the Caucasus in especial reference to the origin or 
nativity of the long-cultivated plants os — Old World, died at 
Berlin, May 25, in the 70th year of his a 
Davip Moorr, Director for ici last forty years of the Glas- 
nevin Botanic Gardens , Dublin, which he kept in unrivalled per- 
the a 
i Fenzt, who forty years ago was the assistant of 
Endlicher in the Vienna Imperial Herbarium, since Endlicher’s 
death in 1849 the Professor of Botany and Director of the Botanic 
Garden at Vienna down to the year 1878, whose earlier studies 
were directed to the aieucs and their allies, and who published 
various memoirs 3 critical value, died September 29th, in the 
72d year of his a 
Joun Mrers, the ‘Nestor of age acme died at be resi- 
dence in London, October i great age He 
went to South America many years ago as a mining cinidetl 
there took up with ardor the stady of botany i in which he has so 
long persevered, made a vast number of drawings and sketches, for 
which he had a great facility, and in about 1840 he began the 
long series of his papers in systematic botany, monographical and 
critical, of which over fifty are enumerated in the Royal Society’s 
Catalogue of Scientific Papers coming down to the year 1863, 
ut whose issue continued down nearly to rie last year of his 
remarkable life. Original in his treatment, and ready to grapple 
with recondite questions of affinity, in which it is not always easy 
to control plausible inferences by decisive tests or by intuitive 
judgment, the value of Mr. Miers’ work must be various, and that 
of much of it not yet determinable. Some of it is doubtless oo 
ingenious, and too great trust may have been placed upon draw 
ings prepared long before their use. But the indomitable spirit 
of the man, and his guileless amiability were equally and ba! 
admirable. 
Ill. MISCELLANEOUS SCIENTIFIC INTELLIGENCE. 
1. Geological Survey of ae a Domain.—In the 
sional oye referred to 1 r former historical notice of the 
Department for the Dboligiaal Bar’ eys of the National Domain, 
page 492 “of the preceding volume, the question of an extension of 
the Survey into ‘“‘all the States” was, as the writer finds, alluded 
to in its various bearings, though brie riefly. The form of the amend- 
ment to mA bill, as it was finally passed by the House, is, in full, 
as follow 
Rondel That this officer shall oS the direction of the 
logical Survey, and the classification of the public lands and 
examination of the geological atest mineral resources, and 
