142 J. H. MAIDEN. 



I have collated the Botanic Gardens copy and note 

 Pritzel's remarks. All the plates are uncoloured. No. 23 

 is missing. There are two plates 30 (Hierochloe antarctica, 

 var. redolent}, and Ciivplia arumlinucea). All the other 

 plates are missing as enumerated by Pritzel. 



D'Urville, Jules Sebastien Cesar Dumont (1790-1842). 

 OircumuavigatDr and botanist. Born 23rd May, 1790, at 

 Oonde sur Noireau, Calvados, and was killed on 12th May, 

 1842, in a train which caught fire between Paris and Ver- 

 sailles. There is an account of his life in Tas.Journ. n, 75. 

 A list of his works will be found in (2) and includes:— 



Memoires sur la flore des iles Malouines ; Memoire sur la dis- 

 tribution geographique des fougeres a la surface du globe. ( A nn. 

 Sc. nat. t. 6, p. 51, 1835); Reports on the voyage of the "Astrolabe" 

 (1829) and of the "Astrolabe and Zelee " (1840). 



He was an indefatigable collector as well as a crypto- 

 gamic botanist. See uls<. K\|i-:diti..ns o) and (7). 



The following plants boar his name :— 



Quinetia UrvUU\,Oe**; Centrolepi* Urvillei, Hieron= Desveauxia 

 Urvillei, Steud. = Centrohpix Ih-ioitmm-.dii, Uieron ; Eragrostris 

 Urvillei, Steud. == ?; Eurodorrhiza Urvillei, Steud. = Caustic 

 pentandra, K. Br.; Gahnia Urvilleana, Kunth. =?; Isolepis Urvillei, 

 Steud. = Scirpus Urvillei, Bceekel = 8. inundatus, Spreng.; Plin- 

 thanthesk Urvillei. Steud. = ? ; Z»' Urvillcta potatorum, Aresch. 

 (figured in Harvey's Phycol. AmtralicaJ. 



Bory de St. Vincent, Jean Baptiste George Marcellin, 

 Baron de (1778 - 1846). Already alluded to at pp. 133, 139. 

 Born at Agen, Gth July, 1778. Went on a geological 

 journey to Bourbon (1798 - 1802). Entered the Institut as 

 Member of the Academy of Sciences in 1832. Went on a 

 botanical journey to Algeria 1840-2. Died at Paris, 23rd 

 December, 1816. A cryptogamic botanist mainly. Some 

 interesting letters from Bory de St. Vincent when in 



