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“5. Eight plates have been — crowded with figures, illustrating all the 
genera (66 in number) of Grasses. They are wholly original, having been 
drawn from nature and engraved by Mr. Sprague. ie “au be of great 
assistance in the study of this lone difficult, and rm a8 mily. 
“The flattering eae pen the Manual has t with stimulates the 
author’s endeavors towards its c ei “improvement; om regard to which 
he _ solicits aid sia: his earrenpidey 
9. Botanical Necrology, 1862. ‘SF “th three botanists of Holland 
who all died in the earlier weeks of the year 1862, viz. ume, Van 
Rie i ye, and "De Vriese, a brief record was made in this Journal for 
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Pro coy MN. Blyit, of the University of Christiania, the most distin- 
guished Norwegian botanist, died on the 26th of July last, aged 70 
years. He had amassed vast materials for be illustration of Scandina- 
vian botany, and had commenced the par of his Norges Flora, 
the first eons of which appeared in 1 
Wm. Borrer, Esq., of Henfield in Sth, England, one of the vene- 
rable alla hovies and botanical friends of Sir James E, Smith, and 
whose name has long been intimately associated with English botany, 
died on the 10th of February, 1862, in the 81st year of his age. 
r. James Townshend Mackay, the author of the Flora Hibernica, 
Gig the director of the Botanic Garden of Trinity College, Dublin, 
died five days later, viz: on the 15th of February, at an age little less 
venerable than that attained by Mr. Borrer. 
Dr Kieser, the late President of the Imperial German 
Society of Naturalists, and who has been Professor of Medicine at the 
nha, rsity of Jena ever since 1812, died on the 11th of October, aged 
3 years. He is to be honorably mentioned among the botanists, on 
a kre of two early essays on the anatomy and physiology of plants, 
one of which, in the year 1812, took the prize offered by the Haarlem 
Academy ; and for ‘his Elements of the repay A 1 Plants, the earliest 
German treatise of modern times, published in 1 
r. Joachim Steetz, of Hamburg, died on she oth of March, 1862, 
in the 57th year of his age. He was a medical practitioner, who de- 
voted his leisure hours with assiduity and much success to systematic 
polany, ae especially, in his later years, to the Composi 
n Tweedie, a Scotch gardener, who ected Buencs Ayres to 
Seine ‘Botadeal collections on the lata, the Parana, and the Uru- 
guay, &c., more than thirty years ago, and kaneis fond of the coun- 
try that he made it his home, died a Santa Catalina, near Buenos 
Ayres, on the first of A ril, 1862, at the age of 87. To him we are 
vet 
arvard University i in ie ‘year 1812; he first pursued legal selina, 
partly in the then celebrated school at Litchfield, Connecticut, and was 
duly ‘admitted to the Bar in Boston. He then took up the study of 
