332 Scientific Intelligence. 
Paris for more than forty years, ann on the 8th of February, 1882, 
in the 75th year of his age. He was born at Brussels, March 11, 
“1809,” according to Pritzel’s ree eae: but this must be a 
misprint for 1807. He must have been a very pom man when 
first attached to the Garden of Plants, it is said as a gardener. 
For it was there that he began the series of his published ‘contribu- 
tions to botanical science, in the year 1831; and he soon became 
aide naturaliste in that department of the Museum. He was 
ye into the Institute in 1847, taking the place in the Acadnian 
sciences vacated by the de ath of Dutro chet. In 1842, after 
the death of Guillemin, he was associated with Adolphe Brong- 
niart in the edit torship of the botanical part of the Annales 
zs Sciences Naturelles, and has been sole editor since the death 
of Brongniart. In 1858 he began the publication of that eae 
(in 1839), his investigation of the oe of the sugar- 
beet; his well-known paper upon the Mistletoe; his classical 
memoir on the Lardizabalew ; his essay on the classification 
of Algw and his restoration of the Corallines to the vegetable 
avy aaa not to speak of other papers and separate publications, 
all ring the ee of his sincere and faithful workmanship. 
The « same may be said, somewhat qualifiedly, of his elaboration 
of two orders ee DeCandolle’s Prodromus, the Asclepiadee and 
ked slo 
arate and leisurely prosecuted ert nog Yet his work on 
the Pouce might have been in true fos. edie egaiaite. 
to the general judgment of betaine he had not concen- 
trated his attention upon this group as to view comparatiy oe small 
differences under exaggerated proportions. But, withal there is 
much to be said for his decided opinion that. the Apple, the 
Pear, and the Mountain Ash are . distinct genera, Decaisne was 
a capital Aight gras and to his gifts in this regard we are 
much indebted for the Traite. Général de Botanique, ut aoe 
e 
in 1868, a veritable treasure to teacher and pupil. The older bot- 
anists will sadly feel the loss of Decaisne, and the Jardin des 
Plantes will be much changed to them, now that the last represen- 
tative of the régime of Adrien de Jussieu and Brongniart disap- 
pears in the decease ag this accomplished botanist and most amia- 
ble and excellent ma 
To supply the oe necrology of 1880 and 1881, the follow- 
ing memoranda are inserted : 
F, Austin, of Closter, New Jersey, died March 18, 1880, 
at the age of 49. He was a keen ares and was p! eparing a 
manual of North American Hepatic 
