462 Miscellaneous Intelligence. 
surviving father (to whom DeCandolle dedicated the genus Vilmorinia,) 
hardly appears in the catalogue of botanical authors, yet both have rend- 
ered important service to botanical sage while contribu uting most essen- 
tially to the advancement of agriculture and cde by original — 
vations, and by experimental “ab vised and conducted u 
truly scientific apy eerees the etmnadions of varieties and 
fixation into races, and the amelioration and augmentation of the usefal 
products of cultivated plants, A notice of some of the brief but most 
Segre. iy ap of the Vilmorins upon this re was given in the 
e (new neces) of thie Journal (May, 1829). In devising and 
av such experiments, often requiring both physiological and 
chemical i a ‘delicate skill in manipulation, and a quick eye for 
natural affinities, the younger Vilmorin was unrivalled, and his death in 
the midst of so useful and so honorable a career, has left a serious void. 
arranging the sorts of Wheat known in fa under fifty-three 
researches of years, although only a pamphlet of fifty pages, and is his 
most aay publication. | His several say since collected cae 
only 42 > ears. The correspondence of M . Nicklés has already supplied 
a biographical notice of ayer, in the preceding. (March) number of 
this Journal. His speciality was organogeny ; his principal work Traité 
meraene Compar ée de la Fleur, in imperial octavo, with 154 
crowded plates, is a very handsome and Sap production, but per- 
haps not of the highest critical value. His seat at the Academy of 
Sciences has foram dl been filled by another organogenist, of excellent 
promise, M. Duchart 
John E£. Le Conte, ae Major of U.S. epic ge Engineers,— 
whose death, at eo Iphia, in November last, aged 77, was announced 
to ee psa to entomology and ad herpetlogy His first eee 
kee ge a Catal wing mensch ind on the 
sland of New York, pat just al a centu any of the 
choicest botanical stations even seventeen years later, icine Dr. Torrey 
issued his Catalogue of the same district, were as low as Canal St., and 
pes Slip. Even the earlier author lived to see nearly his whole florula 
swept away by denudation, or wi spn — od 
recent strata of stone, brick and mortar. Major LeConte mad 
