154 Seient:fie Intelligence. 
Flora Vitiensis (of which the last fasciculus has been unacountably 
delayed for the past three years), and of other botanical writings, 
—a very enterprising botanist, but of late years muc occupied in 
business affairs in Central America,—died of fever in Nicaraguain 
November last, as we learn from a brief announcement of the sad 
event in the Gardeners’ Chronicle of Dee. 16. : 
Sepastian René Lenormanp, Vire, France. A wide circle of 
correspondents and friends will share our regret upon being in- 
formed of the death of this venerable botanist (specially an adept 
in Algology), and most charming man. This occurred on the 
11th of December, 1871, in the 76th year of his age. 
4. Fish-nest in the sea-weed of the Sargasso Sea. Extract 
from a letter from Professor Acassiz to Prof. Peirce, Superinten- 
dent U. S. Coast Survey, dated Hassler Expedition, St. Thomas, 
Dee. 15, 1871 —* * *° Th 
voyage thus far is the finding of a nest built by a fish, floating o 
the broad ocean with its live freight. On the i3th of the month, 
Mr. Mansfield, one of the officers of the Hassler, brought me a ball 
of wate 
nen the central part of which was more closely bound up together 
In t 
] 
» by which the whole was kept floating. the 7 
more careful examination ver soon revealed the fact that a 
elastic threads which held the a 
at intervals, sometimes two or three beads being close together, 
f bravest ‘pin’s head. We 
ze of an or = 
had, no doubt, a nest before u ’ th i kind: full of 
revealed two lar. 
over the back of the body, as the embryo uniformly appe 
