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Baron CHARLES von Hueet, an Australian explorer and seien- 
tific cultivator, founder of the collection of live plants acquired 
Prince Demidoff, and lately dispersed at the sale of the collections 
at the Villa Demidoff, —died in Belgium, where he was Austrian 
Minister, in the summer of 1870 
Tuomas Aw NDERSON, late Superintendent of the Botanic Garden 
at Calcutta, an excellent botanist, who has done much good work 
and from whom “oe — was sepeta upon Acanthacee, died 
at Edinburgh, ees 6, : 
F. A. IQUEL, most igo er of the Neth- 
erlands and Director of the Leyd erbarium, as well as Professor 
of Botany at Utrecht, died J sour 23, i871, at the age of only 
59 years. 
B.S. G. Lanrzius-Beninea, chiefly known for his researches 
i the v4 i of the spore-case of Mosses, died at Gdttingen, 
Tarch 6 
Cari i ‘Soa LTZ-SCHULIZENSTEIN, Professor of Physiology at 
the University of Berlin, who wrote yer erin upon Cyclosis 
and Vessels of the Latex, died March 2 
Wiu1am Witson, of Warrington, i re veteran Muscolo- 
Bt former associate. with Sir Wm. Hooker in the Muscolo ogia 
ritannica ,and sole author of the last edition of that Wark, or 
rather of the Br yologia Britannica, died April 3, 1871, at the 
age of 72. 
opor Hartwse, at one time botanical traveler and 
poliocko: ae the London Horticultural Society in Mexico, Sout 
America, and California (the dried plants enumerated by Bentham 
in Plante Hartwegiane}, and of late director of er Grand Ducal 
egies at Swetzingen, Baden, died February 3, 1871. 
OHRBACH, “of Berlin, a most promising poenece t, who has 
bata: revised the Silene, Typhace we, &e., with gr ~~ credit, died 
June 3, 1871, before he had completed his 25th yea 
vlas Minpx, of Breslau, an investigator of Febiiblions, and , 
later of Ferns, died J uly 3, 1871. 
AMON DE LA SAGRA, & Spanish botanist long resident in Cuba, 
for whose work upon the civil and natural history of that and 
Montagne contributed the aliation of the lower Cryptogamia, 
and Achille Richard commenced that of the Phanerogamia, died 
in June, 1871 
Henry Tsseg of Clermont-Ferrand, France, author of a most 
elaborate work on the Geography of the Plants md Europe, and 
a distinguished bette botanist, died August 4, 1871 . 
Stearriep Retssex, keeper of the Imperial Herbarium at 
Meee and author of) some good botanical papers, died November 
1ST. 
e zs De Carte Sowersy, son of the artist of the ori we 
Socics of the British Botany, and who himself drew most o 
plates of the Supplement, died in London, August 26, 1871, at 4 
ag < 
LD SEEMANN, editor of the Journal of eee British and 
ie eae of the "Botany of the Voyage of the Herald, of the 
