238 Scientific Intelligence. 



baria of the British Museum, up to the close of the year 1870, was 

 bom January 8, 1801, and died Feb. 29, :876. He was one of 

 the best and most amiable of men, one of the most learned and 

 the most modest; and his writings, like those of his master, Rob- 

 ert Brown, have an importance greatly exceeding their number 

 :ni'l pi-, tension. There is a biographical notice in Trimen's Jour- 

 nal ol Botany, with a good portrait. 



Christian Gottfried Eiirenberg, wbose death, on the 22d of 

 June at the age of 82, was duly announced in this Journal, must 

 also be com.; -t-. a-ainst his ear'iv convictions 



as respects his life-long work upon the Diatomaceje, and some of 

 his earliest papers relate to i ; hat,.n. j.a:i,ic B..t.ni\. iiis larlict 

 botanical paper hears the date of 1820. 



Li-oi-om, Fivkkl, the .Mv<N.]oL'i>t, author of the classical Fungi 

 Khenam Exsiccati, died at Vienna, May 8, 1876. 



Edward Newman, who died, near Loudon, June 12, 1876, at 



the age of 75, was better known as a zoologist than as a botanist, 



l,ut 1 ^ r " '"-' n l,Ji ' mhl '•' ' •'" i-'ii-j; the botanists and amateurs for his 



History of British Ferns, which has passed t hrou-h 



1841 e °" S ' and as the I ,rinci P al editor of the Phytologist, from 



Joseph Carson, M.D., long the professor of Materia Mediea in 

 th " } '"-'-1} -I I'uiMinu . ti 1 , riiUI ,ia December 

 30, at the age of 68. He was an active g 

 earlier years. Later hia directed 



to the history of medicinal pi , r <. ,-s., ..-hll- those ,,f' Vmerh-a. 

 In lore of this kind he had no superior. ,,t i, :M .j„e ti. pn na- 

 ture death of Hanbury, and in this ountrv he lea-es ,-„ e.pial. 



than forty years ago, of which there is now on 

 and he no longer a resident of Philadelphia. A 

 l'r. (.arson was ,-, -nt nbute 1 to the Jaimarv numb. 

 tin of the Torrey Botanical Club, bv its w ..rt '• i 

 the portrait of F. Andre Michaux whh-h has t 

 a.loine.l Dr. ( t ,s , ,\ .,,. .. _ ,, , . t. i-i\--l to' ,> ■'•„, 

 the o n l y likeness of that* 'botanist extant '" It 

 while to record, that the writ. >r of the ma-sent n. 

 sessor of a daguerreotype likeness of tin' v-micer 



'-''M' 1 ' 1 '' '"!' ruke!,"' 



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learn, died on the 12th of January last " ' " 



J Mi tht„, , |v „,„ ,„,,, | , im , \ n , (; , 

 '" , l ' lu ' 1,lll ' :l1 examiuati mis ,,f t )u u fstl-to, tin i 

 differs essentially in composition from that f ^et 

 grows, and varies with the sp " 

 and phosphoric i 



