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of plants of the Southern States in their native habitats were 
great; his apart ee and training for doing descriptive botan- 
ical work were not of the best. It is said that he “ was several 
years engaged n revi a work on the trees 
America, which is unfinished.” An appropriate biographical 
notice of Mr. Buckley, by S. H. Wages in the eleventh volume 
of the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanic 
Joun Wititamson, of Lo aivilics jpeeah ek “ June 17, 
1884,—a young man, of Scottish birth, an ama ~ botanist, 
chiefly in Ferns ; the author of the Ferns of Ken ucky, in two 
_ editions, illustrated by graceful and seinen eae es printed 
directly from the author's etchings, w are wonderfully good. 
We need here only refer to two mien ala of this gifted artist 
and Merdologies fe rom, most capable and loving hands, one by 
. G. E. Davenport in ‘the Botanical Gazette, ix, 122; the other 
y J. H. R. in the Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, xi, 104. 
Of Botanists in Europe the principal losses in 1884 are those of 
ALFouR, one of the founders of the Edin- 
since 1846 at Edinburgh, his native town, where, after a few 
years of superannuation, he died, February ‘i, 1884, in he 76th 
year of his age. 
Heinrich Rosert Gaprert, Professor of Botany at Breslau, 
eminent as a teacher gg in Paleo-botany, died May 18, 1884, i 
the 84th year of his a 
corGE BenTHAM the greatest descriptive and taxonomical — 
botanist since DeCandol lle and Brown, died Sept. 20, close upo? — 
his 84th birthday. A mene finds a place in the present yes 
ber of this Journal, p. 1 
Tl. MiscennAngeous Sctentiric INTELLIGENCE. 
1. The late Henry Watts, PRS, F.C.8—A recent number 
of the Che eal 1 News (Dee. 5, 1884), states that in November 
last, at a meeting held at the Royal Institution, a committee Wa 
formed ~ collect funds for the benefit of the wife and children 
of the late Mr. Henry Watts. It appears that notwithstandip 
his remar reatle industry, and the many contributions which he 
made to science, the money return for his labors was small and 
only sufficed for da ioe wants, co now at his death his in 
wife and 
render assistance. In view of the great benefit which ore 
chemist has recéived from the almost unremunerated labors of Mr. 
Watts, notably from his great —. of Chemistry, the ap alk 
which ‘the committee now m makes o chemists at home and abroae 
whether large or small, will be welcome. Subscriptions may \ 
nt to Dr. E. Waller, of t New en (4th Avenue and 49th 
