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W». Purr Scurmper, leading bryologist as well as a foremost 
vegetable Leper, died March 20, 1880, at the age of 72. 
His rich and im mportant herbarium of Mosses has been acquired 
by the Herbarium of oe Royal Gardens at Kew. ; 
Nits J. AnpErsson, the aah of Salix, died at Stock- 
holm, March 27, 1880, ‘in the 60th year of his age. He had been 
in retirement for several years on account of infirm health. 
G tiles Munro, the learned agrostologist, to whom 
looked for ypecies Graminum (which was to be published in 
DeCandolle’s s Monographie), died at his residence near Taunton, 
England, January 29, 1880, at the age of 64; a sad los 
Dominique ALEXANDRE. Gopron, one of t e authors of the 
Flore de a died at Nancy, August 16, 1880, in the 74th 
year of his 
S. B. Maat one of our older local botanists, of much activity 
in former years, died at = home in Augusta, Illinois, November 
11, 1880, at a good old a 
W Ee AUDER LINnDsAy, a . learned lichenologist, and a writer 
upon tthe rien! of New "Zealand, died in November, 1880, at the 
age “se 
ST Hl AMPE, a veteran bryologist, died at sorry near 
eskcabieg + in Hannover, where he had so long resided, m 
ber 23, 1880, at the age of 85. It has been said of him that pairee 
he began the study ‘of Mosses, the 931 species enumerated by 
Bridel were all that were then known; ; in 1851, the number had 
risen to 2303 ,and the ere estimated at 6000 at the time of his 
death, Sen hee barium has been acquired by the British Museum. 
xso Woop, the well-known author of some very popular 
botanic: 3 text- books and of one or two botanical papers, an enthu- 
siastic devotee in botany, died at his ren doie in West Farms, 
New Yo tk, January 4, 1881, in the 7ist year of his age. The 
Date of. the Torrey Club, oy which Professor Wood was for 
y years a member, has a good biographical notice of him, 
56. 
Gorrtien Lupwig RaBpennorst, a mycologist of note, who has 
published very extensive and v aluable exsiccate of cryptogamous 
rie died near Meissen in Saxony, April 24, 1881, at the age 
74 
— IAs JacoB SCHLEIDEN, whose name dy 5 aoa in _— 
ery prominent forty years ago, when his text-book on scien- 
tifte botany appeared, but who had so spuiptetaly aabaded from 
Scientific pursuits t at few were aware of bis actual existence, 
died at Frankfort on the Maine, June 23, 1881, a ak the age of 77. 
The proposition that all ve etable tissues are formed of cells, 
which was a, a by Mirbel, was made familiar by 
Schleiden. His itryman, early transferr ed to Belgiu 
Turovore deve ANN extended the proposition to pe tissues, 
and appears to have originated the idea that animal and vegetable 
cells, as the structural and phys iological units of organic nature, 
Were identical. Although like. Bebleiden, Schwann’s name had 
