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ists, died on the 22d of July last, at the age of 81 years. His earliest 
botanical publication appeared in the second year of the present century. 
Jules M. C. Marquis de Tristan, of Orleans, died on the 24th of 
to derive from the Greek. 
_ Prof. G. W. F. Wenderoth, of Marburg, died on the 5th of June last, at 
the appointment of the Dutch Government, to the Dutch East 
possessions, to investigate their botanical resources and culture. ; 
Dr. Cha: is Blume, an older and still more renowned botanist, 
Blume’s earliest publications, issued at Batavia, while he was 1n charge 
of the Colonial botanic gardens of Java, bear the dates of 182 a 
His later works, several of them of a magnificent character, come — 
to a very recent date. (He died on the 3d of February, in the 66th y 
Dr. Edwin James died at Rock Spring, near Burlington, Hines 
the 28th of October, 1861, at the age of 64 years. As the earliest 1 
tanical explorer of an alpine region, in which Dr. Parry has nee 
by Dr. Parry vile mage 
2. Dr. Edwin James, who is best known among scientific men 1 
