oct. — dec. 1857.] The late Dr. Schmid. 



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writes in a letter to a friend. " During the year 1840, the exhaus- 

 tion of my nerves and of my bodily strength was so great, that it 

 was quite out of the question to undertake any stated official duties, 

 even if procurable. In the Winter of 1840-41, I had an attack of 

 influenza which retarded my recovery. In May 1841, 1 went there- 

 fore to Almenau, a cold water bathing place, and submitted to the 

 most rigorous homoeopathic and hydropathic regimen for 18 

 months, entirely abstaining not only from wine and beer (which I had 

 scarcely touched since my return to Germany, much less spirits,) 

 but also from the use of tea, coffee, pepper and every kind of sti- 

 mulants ; and my stay there restored me to that degree of healthy, 

 and comparatively youthful appearance, which made you overlook 

 my grey hairs." 



In the end of 1845, Dr. Schmid returned from Europe, and 

 subsequently resided at Ootacamund, and devoted his leisure hours 

 more especially to the study of Cryptogamic plants. We received 

 not a month before his death, the List of Nei?gherry Ferns de- 

 scribed by Professor Kunze in the " Linnea, Vol. 8, July 1851, and 

 a Catalogue of Neilgherry Mosses, named and described by Dr. 

 Charles Muller of Halle in Prussia, in the " Botanische Zeitung" 

 1353 and 1854. These lists we have thought it desirable to pub- 

 lish in the present No. of this Journal ; they will prove useful to 

 the explorers of these elevated regions, as the Spicilegium Neilgher- 

 reuse of Wight terminates with the Labiatse. 



A Genus of Acanthaceae, allied to Meyenia and Hexacentris, bears 

 the name Schmidia, and was one of the latest discoveries of Dr. 

 Wight. Several specimens of Ferns and Mosses were also named 

 in honor of him by his German friends. 



Dr. Schmid presented to the University Museum of Jena, a piece 

 of the fossil wood of Trivacary, near Pondicherry, which has been 

 described and figured in a German dissertation on Fossil woods by 

 Professors Schleiden and EE. Schmid of Jena. A copy of this work 

 was presented by the authors to the Library of the Madras Museum 

 in 1856, containing lithographic figures of the following fossil 

 woods. 



Psaronius Cattai. 

 Peuce Sibirica, PI. II. 



