324 Scientific Intelligence. 
continuation. A portion of these was selected for the first Supple- 
ment, and the drawings and engravings of these eighty-three plates 
were ‘completed before his death, in * April, 1873. The drawings 
were made under his immediate wae ae ase by 
meritorious draughtsman who executed those of the original 
1 to be in readiness for the printer. Its anne and com- 
Lesquereux, to whom this has been a labor of love and the paying 
of a tribute of affection to an endeared memor y. Inasmuch as he 
had to draw up a large proportion of the following descriptions 
from mere notes and remarks appended to the specimens in the 
herbarium, it would have been only just, no less to Mr. Sullivant 
than to Mr. Lesquereux, that the name of the latter should be 
siihosd upon the title-page as the editor of this posthumous work. 
But he has strenuously objected to this, and his decided wishes 
have been deferred to. Regar — the incomparable “Icones ” and 
this Su neoetyy as a fitting memorial of one who will rightly be 
remembere the father of mies bryology, he declines to 
have his own name inscribed upon the monument, however sub- 
ordinately. Accordingly, it only remains for the writer of this 
aoa to express—on the part of the botanists who are to be 
nefited, and of the Sullivant family, at whose expense this 
memorial is published—most grateful ati tg pon Le » 
reux for his valuable ats essential @ services.’ 
been ee ae to be the Damask Rose. Mr. Haabury, having re- 
ceived a packet of specimens in the rose fields of the Balkan, 
submitted them to Mr. Baker of Kew, he being the most accom- 
plished rosarian; and Mr. Baker has determined them to be for 
the most part Rosa damascena. Thiss species is quite unknown In 
a wild state; and Mr. Baker re — it “as most likely a culti- 
vated race of R. Gullica, spores spreads in a wild state from 
France to ot ” (See Jo Tbk for Jan., 1875.) A. @. 
18. British Wild Flowers ie te in relation to Insects ; by 
Sir Joun Lussocx, Bart, F.R.S., M.P., with numerous illustra- 
tions. London: Macmil llan & Co. 1875. pp. Wes 12mo,—Al- 
* Except a cea bt ie Hs Mr. Bennett, entitled ‘‘ How Flowers are Fertilized,” 
which we have 
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