326 Scientific Intelligence. 



2. Botanical Necrology of 1875. On the home list only one 

 name recurs to memory, that of 



IxcEKASE Ali.en Lapham, LL.D, He died September 14, in 

 the 64th year of his age. A beautiful tribute to his memory, re.id 

 before the Old Settler's Club, of Milwaukie, by S. S. Sheniuin, 

 Esq., has just been printed, and is noticed on a following page. 

 An excellent portrait is prefixed. 



The following botanists have deceased in Europe : 



Friedrich Gottlieb B.\rtlixg, one of the oldest professors at 

 Gottingen, a veteran teacher, but not a voluminous author; 

 aged 17. 



Alexandre Uoreau, of Angers, France, author of the Flora 

 du Centre de la France. 



John Edward Grat, March 7, at the age of 75. Principally 

 3 of his earliest work was in botany. A 

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at Clapham, March 24, m his 50t 

 this Journal, vol. ix, p. 75. We leai 

 re to be collected. 

 Rudolph Freidrich Hofiexiiaciier, died at Kirchheimin Wu 

 tembu-ra:, late in the preceding year, November 14, 1874. t 

 was in earlv life a missionary at Astrakan, and was afterward i 

 the Caucasian provinces. ^ He Avas one of the founders of tl 

 Unio Itinerario, and he survived his associates, Steudel and Hoc 



Lieut. General Jacobi, the monographer of Agave, died i 

 Berlin, early in the year, 



Ernst Feedind Nolte, of Kiel, a veteran botanist, who ha 

 retired from his professorship a year or two ago, died Februar 

 13, at the age of 84. 



Gustave Thuret, died suddenly at Antibes, France, May 1 

 at the age of 58. A l^rief notice of this sad loss was given in vc 

 X, p. 67. Among other tributes to his memory is one by li<ist 

 finski in the Botanische Zeitung, for July 30. Also one bv 1 r 

 fessor Farlow in Trimen's Journal of Botany, for January last. 



Adolphe Bkongniart. We learn that" this veteran botanii 

 and vegetable paleontologist died at Paris. ^- *^- 



3. Life Histories of Aninmls, including Man, or Outlines < 

 Vomparative JEmhryologt/ ; by A. S. Packard, Jr. 8vo, 239 p 

 with 268 cuts. New York, 1876. (Henry Holt & Co.)-Thiswoi 

 consists of a seiies of papers published in the American Naturali 

 during the past year, wath the addition of a few pages on mar 

 mals and nearly three on man. Although, according to the [>i' 

 face, the original papers have undergone " careful revision, v 



that have been allowed to remain, and are much less excusable i 



