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Osrrvary. 
Eryest Haxvsser, an excellent cena and mining engineer, i 
in New York on the 18th of February, aged ab rs. na 
survey. Some of the results of his labors Cwthie his ney ave ap- 
peared in the Annual Reports of that survey. Frequent exposure to the 
sickly climate of the Southern States when exploring in North Carolina 
and elsewhere, broke down his health, developing by intermittent fever 
the consumption which carried him off, Cautious, truthful, excellent in 
character, lis decease is a great loss to mining enterprises, in besitiy there 
is always need of ris quniieles which distinguished Ernest usser. 
Botanical Necrology for 1860.—Professor Hochstetter of. Esslingen, 
Wirtemburg, died on the 19th of February, at the age of 74 years. The 
and his ot Steudel, whom he survived two or three years, were 
active promoters of botany through the Unio Itineraria, an association 
for ne Tbabediiie collections—of which they were the managers. 
rofessor J. G. C, Lehmann, of Hamburgh, who died on the 12th of 
February, in his 68th year, was a botanist of note, and a voluminous 
author. His earliest work, a monogra h of Primula, appeared in 1817, 
his monograph of the Asperifolice the year after, that of Potentilla in 
1820. He cabal the Onagracee and his favori 
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magnitude and crowning work was his Revisio Potentillarum, a oH quarto 
volume with 64 plates, issued in the year 1856, an ei t monograph. 
. von Schubert, a Bavarian botanist of a form Tt generation, to 
whorn Mirbel in 1813, under the name of Schubertia, ‘dediested the genus 
established for our southern Cypress, which Richa rd had earlier called 
Taxodium—survived until July last, — attained the age of 80 years. 
He is commemorated in an Asclepi jadeous genus from Brazil, estab- 
lished by his fellow-countrymen, Martius and Zuccarini. 
Dr. J. lotzsch, keeper of the Royal Herbarium at Berlin for the 
last twenty-five years, died on the 5th of November last at the age of 
55 years. As a systematic botanist, Dr. Klotzsch worked industriously, 
observed discriminatingly, but generalized badly, or rather—like others 
of the same school—wanted that largeness of view which enables the 
able naturalist to discover, almost er ipa the true characters and 
just subordination of natural groups, in the midst of the most diversified 
details, and that gift of sound Pgment a to natural genera in which 
opposite systen. The distinction are Aion sedi te most part true 
and good ; their valuation is open to serious object 
is de Vilmorin, of Paris, died on ai 22d of ‘March, 1860, at the 
= of “44 years. Although his name and that of his venerable, still- 
