68 Scientific Intelligence. 
Dr. Palmer is now on his way to an exploration of the Islands of 
the southern part of California. A. @. 
19. The American Naturalist closes its 8th volume with the 
larger support needful to make this, our only natural history 
magazine, self-sustaining. We well understand what that means. 
When the paid-up subscription rises so as to cover the actual outlay 
in the production, the public should still take to heart the fact that 
all the scientific talent and effort, and the editorial labor, will still 
be unpaid for. The editors in this case are entitled to great credit 
for the zeal, perseverance and sacrifice with which they have kept 
this magazine, not only alive, but every year more worthy of life; 
let us add that they are also entitled to a more generous patron- 
age. There are many more than the five hundred new subseribers 
for whom they now call, to whom the Naturalist would be of 
great use and interest. A. G@ 
20. Botanical Necrology.—On turning over the pages of the 
Botanische Zeitung for the year 1874 (received down to the end 
mber), we find no record of the death of any botanist, ex 
cept that of Pritzel. 
Guorce Ave. Prirzxt, of Berlin, was born in 1815, and died 
on the 14th of June last. His only botanical publication was 4 
revision of the genus Anemone, contributed to the Linnea in 1842. 
should preserve his memory, were by the faithful preparation of the 
indispensable Thesaurus Literature Botanice in 1851; of the Teo- 
severe illness, from which the author appears never to have recov’ 
Ww 
ered, interrupted the publication. This work and the Jeonum In- 
and diligently investigated its botany, was lost at sea in April last, 
by the foundering of the Steamer Liberia, in which he was a pas 
senger on his way to Madeira. His principal publications were — 
the Primitie Faune et Flore Madere, which appeared in the 
(Wovitie, &c.) in 1838; anda Manual Flora of Madeira, begub 
in 1857, continued into the second volume in 1872, and left unfin- 
ished. 
Mrs. Hooxrr.—With inexpressible sorrow we record the death 
of this excellent and accomplished lady, the wife of Dr. Hooker, © 
Director of the Royal Gardens at Kew, and the President of the 
Royal Society, and the daughter of the late Professor Henslow: 
This sad event occurred on the 13th of November, of heart-dis 
ease, Of the great practical services rendered to science by most 
efficient aid to her husband we may not speak ; but her n has 
of late become well known in Botany, through her able translation” 
