178 Sctentific Intelligence. 
was born, as was Linneus, in the south of Sweden, was educated 
at Lund, where he was early made demonstrator of Botany, and 
was translated to Upsal more than forty years ago, where he 
occupied the chair, not of Botany, but of Practical Economy, 
answering, we su ppose, to Rural Economy. e was, nevertheless, 
the greatest Swedish botanist since Linneeus, and the last survivor 
hose whose teachers were taught b Linnzus. He began to 
rivalled and his judgment wonderfully correct, considering that 
his studies were unaided by the compound microscope. His 
last work of any consequence was a new edition of his Hymeno- 
mycetes Huropei, of which he wrote the preface on his 81st birth- 
day, August 15, 1874. 
Lupwie Pre FER, of Cassel, died at the beginning of the 
year, at the age of 72, He wrote on Cactew, and published a 
Synonymia Botanica. 
rEw Murray, a writer to the signet at Edinburgh, where 
oe was aion, died January 10, 1878, at the age of 66. He was an 
entomologist more than a botanist; but he came up to London to 
he H 
became learned in Conifer, publishing a volume on the Pines 
ir i 
and F f Japan in 1863, and, later, various articles upon the 
sired of our Pacific Co 
NDREW BLoxawM, an English eee peel one ms - earliest of 
the critical Dora rs of Rubus, 4 om seca 
ANGOIS INCENT ASPAIL, whose name has for r many a 
new system of Ve eget table eee pe and co in 1837. 
died at Arcueil, near Paris, January 6, 1877, at the age of 87. 
year, about the time of the author’s death. 
M. Durtev (de aig age long the director of the Botanic 
Garden at Bordeaux, author of many botanical and vinicultural 
papers, and of the first oer | part * a Flora of Algeria, 
died at Bordeaux, Feb. 20, 1878, at the age of 82. 
Cuaries Pickertne, M.D., who died in Boston on the 17th ¥ 
