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Thomson) On Enkyanthus Himalaicus and Cassiope selaginoides, two new species of 
Himalayan Ericese—with two plates. Botanical Information—Note on the Vege¬ 
tation of Rangoon, in a letter from Dr. McClelland, dated May 31, 1854. Notices 
of Books—Bryologia Javanica ; List of British Mosses. 
No. 76, May:—Kew Garden Museum, or an Account of the Origin, and some 
of the Contents, of the Museum of Economic Botany attached to the Royal 
Gardens of Kew, by Sir W. J. Hooker—continued from page 114 ; Biographical 
Account of M. Andrien de Jussieu, by M. J. Decaisne, extracted from the 
“Memoirs of the Imperial Agricultural Society of France” for the year 1854. This 
celebrated botanist was born, at the Museum, on the 23rd December, 1797. He 
completed his medical studies in 1824; and his thesis on this occasion was on the 
“ Euphorbiacese.” In 1826 his father retired from the Professorship of Botany, 
and the assembled professors of the Museum nominated his son to the Professorship 
of Rural Botany, in this year. In 1843 he gave to the world his crowning perfor¬ 
mance as an author—viz., “The Monograph of the Malpighiaceae”—on which he 
laboured for fourteen successive years, and this work alone would have been suffi¬ 
cient to have established its author’s reputation. Report of a Journey of Discovery 
into the Interior of Western Australia, between 8tli September, 1848, and 3rd 
February, 1849, by J. S. Roe—continued from vol. vi., p. 380. Botanical Infor¬ 
mation—The Voyage of H.M.S. Herald , being an extract of a letter from Mr. 
Milne, dated Island of Janna, New Hebrides, December 4, 1854. Notices of 
Books—(William Wilson) Bryologia Britannica; (Dr. Asa Gray) Plantse novae 
Thuberianae. 
No. 77, June:—(James Motley) Notes on Sumatra; (M. J. Decaisne) Bio¬ 
graphical Account of M. Andrien de Jussieu, extracted from the “Memoirs of the 
Imperial Agricultural Society of France” for the year 1854. Of this lamented 
botanist, M. Decaisne says—“ Nature had endowed him with those qualities which 
give grace to superior talents, and deprive them of the tendency to excite envy; his 
disposition was benevolent and gentle, yet firm; his heart was warm, and his af¬ 
fections susceptible. In general appearance he was far from striking, and his 
rather peculiar countenance was less engaging than might have been expected, ow¬ 
ing to the smallness of his eyes ; while his own timidity prevented others from feeling, 
at first, quite at ease in his society ; but he no sooner began to speak than this im¬ 
pression vanished ; his animated, witty, full, and kindly conversation, graced with 
striking and amusing anecdotes, quickly did the speaker justice, and conveyed such 
an impression as was never erased from the hearer’s mind ; he was singularly devoid 
of ambition; he cultivated botany with great success, and to his own unfading 
honour—true ; but he did so for its own sake, because he loved the science, and be¬ 
cause his fathers had loved it before him. Fame and high office came to him un¬ 
sought. The desire for notoriety, which rarely repays the anxiety it occasions, never 
agitated him ; he belonged to that body of learned men who confine their activity 
and their desires to the promotion of useful labours.” M. Jussieu died on the 
29th of June, 1853. (George Bentham) Additional Note on Arachis hypogsea; 
The Government Botanist’s Report of his journey from Melbourne to Omeo in the 
Australian Alps, dated Omeo, 16th December, 1854. The highest portion of the 
mountain range descended by Fred Mueller appears to be about 7,000 feet above sea 
level. Botanical Information—Charles Andreas Geyer; On Beech Oil, by W. E. 
G. Seeman; The Ferns of Wales, by Edward Young. Notices of New Books. 
