290 Scientific Intelligence. 
Agassiz and Forbes first taught us to open our eyes to the truth on this 
subject. Those who have not visited the classic scenes of Wales will find 
the excellent woodeuts of this essay quite a valuable substitute for per- 
sonal observation. 
Ill. BOTANY. 
1. Eulogy on Robert Brown ; by D r. Von Martius (translated from 
the’ German by Prof. Henfrey, and pablidhed in the Annals and Mag- 
“ee of Natural History for r May, 1859).—An eulogy upon “ the greatest 
anzenkenner, the world has yet produced,” pronounced by one of his 
most peng survivors and intimate friends. one earned, 80 
tion of his medical s Se rown, as is sown, was attached as 
ensign and assistant atone to a Scotch salt regiment stationed upon 
the western coast of Ireland. 
“ An inconspicuous plant with which he there became acquainted—the 
Eriocaulon  septangulare,—the only European representative of an 
especially American order—caused his life to be diverted into the exclu- 
sive service of botany ; for, accompanying a recruiting party of his = 
ment to London, in the summer of the pen hee and on the 
upon it, to = fia This learned botanist, Traian to me Jose 
stay in London, and in ane: 1800, propos osed him to the Govern- 
ment as Natnralist to the naval Exploring Expedition to New Holland, 
under Capt. Flinders, then spa a areal Brown, at this call, gave 
up at once the military career, n to London at Christmas, 1800, 
and on the 18th of July, 1801, ‘sailed § in the * Investigator’ ce pit- 
to the newly discovered quarter of the globe.” 
ragmenta Phytographie Australie, contulit FerpinanDUs “Most. 
eae Ph.D., M.D,, Gubern. Col. Victoree Phytologus, Hort. Bot. Mel- 
bournensis Director, ete., ete. Melbourne. Vol. I, fase. 1—4, (PP 
96), 1858-9.— The British California in the southern hemisphere,— 
more enlightened nes more spirited than our own,—has officially org@”- 
and promoted scientific research from the first. The colony has not 
only its Philosopbical Institute, publishing memoirs of ge character 
but its Botanic Garden, Museum and Herbarium, under the ehatge 
snarl oa Botanist, the able and indefatigable Se aay a or do 
y midleg ied of this officer to the Victoria Colon 
botanist, the recent exp! 
“Capt. Gregor7 
