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DCLX.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
MR. WILLIAM tape a sub-foreman in the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, has been appointed on the recommendation of Kew 
Curator, to the A Mee nen Physic Garden, 
MR. ALBERT HOWARD, B.A., Scholar of St. John’s College, 
Cambridge, has €: appointed by the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Lecturer in Agricultural 
Science in Barbac 08. 
The news of the sudden death at the early age of 56, of HENRI 
LEVEQUE DE VILMORIN, on August 24th, at his country seat, 
Verrieres, near Paris, was received at Kew with the e profoundest 
regret. De Vilmorin had worthily continued the traditions of the 
great house of Vilmorin Andrieux et Cie., in which he une 
several generations of his family. Its business of seedsmen i 
no doubt the most widely extended and possibly the ae in the 
world. Its affairs constantly brought him to England, and he 
rarely failed on such occasions to visit Kew, to which he never 
ceased to extend the warmest friendship. He could not in facı 
ve shown more interest in or regard for its work had it been an 
institution of his own country. 
But it was not as a mere man of business that De Vilmorin will 
be remembered. He brought a keen scientific intelligence to bear 
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3118) of the eg in — he had so large by which 
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of few men A better known throughout Europe ; B. 
might "ras pd said throughout the civilised world. A man 
dignified presence, with singular charm of manner, and an alert 
and sympathetic mind stored with the most varied but precise 
warmer cli 
British Isles ; and when one asked De Vilmorin to do a thing, on 
could rely upon its Pn as effectively accomplished as if one had 
done it oneself. A loveable nature, a Seg enthusiasm, and a 
sterling integrity inspired a noble charac 
Botanical Magazine for August.—A quarto a is given to Aloe 
Schweinfur thii, a magnificent species discovered by Dr. 
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a scandent habit. The Kew plant, which was received from 
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