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William Richards, for twenty years publisher and business 

 manager of The Gardeners'* Chronicle, died March 14, aged 44 

 years. Mr. Richards leaves a widow and four children. We 

 have to mourn a straightforward, high-principled colleague 

 and an excellent man of business ; whilst his horticultural 

 friends, who are legion, will share our sense of the loss of a 

 kind-hearted, right-minded friend whose help and judgment 

 could always be depended upon in case of need, and who 

 never seemed better pleased than when he was helping for- 

 ward some charity or other public object connected with hor- 

 ticulture. — The Gardeners' Chronicle. 



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Emil Ronnenkamp, garden-inspector of the city of Berlin, 

 Germany, died March 10, at 53 years of age. 



Ant. Roozen, founder of the firm of Ant. Roozen & Son, of 

 Haarlem, died at Overveen, Dec. 16, at the age of 86 years. 



Theodor Rumpler, died May 23, aged 72 years. At the 

 time of his death he was a publisher of garden literature but 

 had previously held several positions of honor and trust. The 

 most popular of his many books is his "Illustriertes Gartenbau- 

 Lexicon," which is a standard work on horticultural subjects. 



Dr. Schomburgk, curator of the Adelaide Botanic Gar- 

 dens, Australia, died April 4, at Adelaide. Dr. Schomburgk 

 was an ideal scientist, simple and unassuming, but always 

 keeping in view the work to which he devoted his long and 

 useful life. He was driven from Germany on account of his 

 political opinions, and settled in Adelaide. He was appointed 

 curator of the Botanic Gardens, and held this position until 

 the time of his death. For nearly twenty-five years he de- 

 voted himself to enlarging and improving the gardens, and 

 his labors have been rewarded, for the gardens now occupy 

 a high place in the scientific world. 



G. Schrefeld, inspector of schools of forestry, died in 

 Moscow, Russia, January 27. 



