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nia, the determination of which led to a study of all our western 
Silenes. The results are ce esipeions in a foot-note oe 
the diagnoses of 21 speci At this rate we may rival Europe. 
List of the Marine pie of the United States, with notes sof New 
and Imperfectly Known Species; by W. G. Fartow. 1- 
280. The a aig papers bear the date of —, (April, 
1875) as well as that of presentation, which it is well to know. 
It is omitted in gpl 3 ie. Farlow’s neat and useful paper; but 
copies had. reached us before the 1st of May. _ species of the 
to 430, of which 54 are a se Dr. Harv sete Ws Nereis (1857), 
and three or sass are new. es are numerous and critical. 
We understand that Picken? feclow intends to follow = this 
paper with other publications _ our Alge. 
. Danizn aa y.—Not long ago we called sews ‘ a 
most valuable book; the Pharmacographia or History of Drugs, 
by Prof. Flickiger of ‘St asburg and Daniel es of London, 
of rags extended similar works by t c English author. We 
now sadly to record the decease of Mr. Hanbury, of enteric 
typhoid, on the 24th of March, at his ia on Clapham Com- 
mon, in the 50th year of his age. The obitu aa sie biographical 
notices which have appeared in the London scientific journals, 
in the Proceedings of the learned Societies, as eer as oe 
pape tributes to an endeared memory, have given expre 
sio oss which has been sustained, and delineated the 
outlines i a most worthy and winning c aracter, The loss is 
his line o dept in 
ee e, a keen botanist, and a most assiduous and conscien- 
: ify 
he might devote his powers and acquisitions without distraction 
to the natural History of drugs and — vegetable — 
He had already done much: more than sixty articles on- 
tributed by him to a ese journal, the editor of wiioie, rie cles 
that : the quality of what he did was almost faultless,” that “h 
apers. His first — ished paper, “On Turnsole,” appeared in 
1850; his latest, on the “ Countess Chinchon and the Cinchona 
genus,” appeare red, we Bo his death, in “The Academy” of the third 
of Apri ‘An ardent botanist and lover of sige he — 
much in the south of Europe, accompanied 
explorations of Lebanon, and took an active uber pola = 
M. Jour, Scr.—TuHtrp ee Vor. IX, No. 54 —Junn, 1875. 
