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Among new books are to be especially noticed the second volnnie (coinpletino- the work) of M. C. Cooke's ' Handbook of British Funoi ' (MacniiUan), the second volume of the ' Flora of Tropical Africa,' by- Prof. Oliver, Drs. Hooker,' Masters, and others, containing the Orders Leguniinosee to Ficoidese (Reeve and Co.); 'Domestic Botany,' by J. Smith, of Kew (Reeve and Co.); a new edition of Prof. Balfour's ' Flora of Edinbnrgli ' (A. and C. Black) ; and a German translation of Johnson's 'How Crops Grow.'
Mr. Carruthers, P'.R.S., has been appointed consulting botanist to the Royal Agricultural Society, — a new office.
Dr. August Ncih'eich, a well-known Austrian botanist, died at Vienna on June 1st, at the aae of fifty-eight. He possessed an extensive and critical knowledge of the botany of the Austrian empire, and was the author of a ' Flora of Vienna ' (1846), a ' Flora of Lower Austria ' (1858, with supplements in 1866 and 1869), and very numerous papers in the Viennese scientific journals. His name is preserved in Feuzl's genus of Composite, Nellreichia, and in Seiiiperviviim Neilreichii, Schott, and other species.
In the person of Dr. Paul Rohrbach, who died on June 3rd, at Berlin, before the completion of his twenty-fifth year, one of the most promising of the younger botanists of Germany has been lost to science. He had devoted his attention largely to the Caryophyllncere, and his excellent mono- graph of the genus Sllfm was noticed in our volume for 1868 (p. 378). He published several useful papers in the ' Linnsea ' and ' Botanische Zeitung,' and a monograph of the European species of Typlia in the last volume of the Brandenburg Transactions. At the time of his premature death he was at work on the Caryopliyllaceoi and Typhacea: for the ' Flora Brasi- liensis.'
We regret to have also to record the death of Dr. Julius Milde, which occurred suddenly, on July 3rd, at ]\Ierau, whither he had gone for the benefit of his health. He is perhaps best known by his useful ' Filices Europae et Atlantidis, Asife Minoris et Siberiae,' published in 1867, and his monograph of all known Equisetums in the 'Nova Acta;' but he wrote very numerous papers on the higher Cryptogams and Mosses in German periodical and transactions, and has contributed a paper on the geographical distribution of the Eqnisdaceae to this Journal (see Vol. I. p. 32), as well as some shorter notes. His extensive herbaria of European Mosses, of Exotic Ferns, and of Duplicate Mosses are for sale at Messrs. Limpricht, in Breslau.
Professor Henri Lecoq, of Clermont, a man of very varied and exten- sive knowledge, has also died quite recently, in his seventieth year. He was the author of numerous treatises on physical geography, general botany, horticulture, and geology, and of an elaborate work, in nine volumes, on the Botanical Geography of Central Europe (1854-58), which is too -little known in this country. He has left to the town of Clermont liis extensive collections of all kinds.
Communications have been received from : — W. Carruthers, J. Sadler, Prof. Tliiselton Dyer, Dr. Braithwaite, J. F. Duliiie, W. Phillips, W. G. Smith, R. Tucker,' J. C. MelvilJ, etc.
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