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proof sheet, but that his health was now “completely reéstab- 
lished.” On the third of May this excellent man died, at the age 
of 49. Our former notices of the Arboretum Segrezianum and of 
the other works he was engaged in may give some faint idea of 
unexpectedly sustained. We hope to give a proper biographical 
n A. G 
. Chorizanthe, R. Brown: Revision of the genus and 
rearrangement of the Annual Species; by C. C. Parry. Extr. 
Proceedings of Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, vol. iv, 
pp. 45-62. 8vo. 1884.—As this memoir was communicated to 
the Davenport Academy on the 25th of January, two or three 
weeks after Dr. Engelmann’s death, and was completed within a 
- involucre; so that the stamens are borne on the throat of an in- | 
volucre! We much prefer the ordinary and obvious interpreta- 
to explain unless it be that the minute tube of the spicules con- 
tains sea-water.— Bull. Soc. Min. de France, April, 1884. ~ 
ll. A Course of Instruction in Zootomy (Vertebrata); by 
