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OBITUARY. 
dently  brings  to  his  task  considerable  personal  observation  and  experience. 
The  book,  as  its  name  and  size  indicate,  is  written  as  a  manual  for  students 
and  young  farmers.  The  observations  on  crops  have  a  more  especial  refer- 
ence to  Southern  staples,  including  tobacco  and  cotton.  The  cereal  grains 
and  the  pulses  and  grasses  are  also  treated  of.  Each  chapter  is  concluded 
with  a  series  of  questions  bearing  on  the  text,  and  rendering  it  a  fit  text 
book  for  agricultural  classes.  The  author  is  evidently  in  favor  of  a  better 
system  of  agriculture  than  usually  is  carried  out  at  the  South,  and  his  book 
is  calculated  to  do  good  among  a  class  of  young  men,  sons  of  planters,  who 
are  too  apt  to  ignore  the  applications  of  scientific  agriculture,  and  pursue 
the  old  beaten  track  of  their  fathers. 
The  work  is  well  printed  and  bound,  and  deserves  the  attention  of 
farmers  and  others. 
The  Chemist  and  Druggist,  a  Monthly  Trade  Circular,  London,  Sept.  15th, 
Vol.  I,  No.  l,pp.68,  is  the  title  of  an  advertising  journal  just  issued  in  London, 
and  extensively  circulated,  almost  wholly  devoted  to  business  advertise* 
ments,  and  sent  post-paid  in  England  for  62 \  cts.  per  annum. 
Obituary. — Prof.  Henfret,  of  London,  died  on  the  7th  of  September, 
in  the  39th  year  of  his  age.  He  was  a  botanist  of  considerable  eminence, 
occupying  the  Chair  of  Botany  in  King's  College,  London,  and  the  author 
of  various  papers  on  his  favorite  science. 
Dr.  Thomas  Nuttall,  formerly  of  Philadelphia,  died  at  his  residence, 
Nutgrove,  Lancashire,  England,  on  the  10th  of  September,  in  the  73d  year 
of  his  age.  He  was  born  in  Yorkshire,  brought  up  a  printer,  emigrated  to 
this  country  near  the  close  of  the  18th  century,  and  subsequently  devoted 
himself  to  botany,  geology,  ornithology,  &e.  He  travelled  much — visited 
California  and  Oregon,  wrote  several  works,  and  among  them  the  supple- 
mentary volumes  to  Michaux's  North  American  Sylva.  A  few  years  since 
a  relative  bequeathed  him  a  considerable  estate,  on  condition  of  his  spend- 
ing nine  months  of  every  year  in  England. 
