Botany. 179 
work On the Geographical Distribution of Plants and Animals is 
a collection of materials for the study of the subject; anda bulky 
of a monograph of Zlatinee, also of several monographs in the 
Flora Brasiengla died eget a in the 60th year of his age. 
Tuomas Tuomson, M.D., ell-known associate of Sir Joseph 
Hoo 
explorer of Thibet, sometime Director of the Calcutta Botanic 
Garden,—a botanist whose career of high pro rim was sadly cut 
short by ill health—died in London on the 18th of April last, at 
the age of 60. He was the son of the distinguished chemist 
Thomas Thomson, of per dats where the lamented subject of 
this notice was born and educat i 
IOVANNI ZANARDINI  Profelor of Batilae at ah if arse ch 
of teen Phycologists died, April 24, at the age of 7 
OB DE : 
papers, died on the 4th of May, at _ Dee of 7 
ARTHELEMY CuHartEs DuMortt of Tournai, Belgium 
long eminent as a Statesman as well as mai (the leader of the 
- clerical party in Belgium politics), and greatly esteemed as a 
m ened uly 9, in_his 2d year. His earliest papers bear the 
the Aral-Caspian desert, and published a monograp he plants 
yielding galbanum and assa-foetida,—died on the 12th 
JAMES McN urator of the Edinburgh Botanical Gardens, 
as was his father before him, sometime President of the Edinburgh 
Botanical Society, the m ost accomplished of cultivators, and a 
heater pees botanist, died on the 20th of November, in his 69th 
We 
| yea well remember his visit to the United States in the 
ae 1834, 
StrerHen T. OLNEY, 9 a hate apes Island, died — 
| 27, 1878, ‘é the age of 6 He was for any years. one of the 
