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BOTANICAL NEWS. 31
till it can be shown that the quality, on the one hand, and the cost of
production on the other, entitle New Zealand flax to a sure footing in
the fibre market.
(To be continued.)
BOTANICAL NEWS.
Adalbert Schnitzlein, Professor of Botany, and Director of the Botanic
Garden at Erlangen, died, aged fifty-five years, on the 24th October, 1868, from
the result of an accident while botanizing in the Tyrol. Tlie author of a ' Flora
of Bavaria ' and a ' Monograph of Typha,' he was better known by his ' Icono-
graphia FamiUarum NaturaUum E egni Vegetabilis,' which is unfortunately left
incomplete.
Edward Pceppig, Professor of Zoology at Leipsic, died on the 4th of Sep-
tember, 1868. He was born at Plauen, on the 16th of July, 1798. In the years
1827-29 he travelled in Chili, Peru, and the basin of the Amazon, and, on his
return to Europe, pubUshed a narrative of his expedition, and, with Eudlicher,
an account of his plants in three folio volumes, with 100 plates in each.
Franz Delessert, the surviving brother of Benjamin Delessert, and tlie
possessor of his valuable herbarium, died at Paris on the 15th of October, 1868.
Christian Friedrich Ecklon has recently died at the Cape of Good Hope.
He was born at Apeurade, in Schleswig, on the I7th of December, 1795. After
studying medicine he went to the Cape as an assistant to an apothecary, and
during the four years he occupied this position he investigated the flora of the
neighbourhood. At the end of this time he devoted himself entu'ely to botanical
investigations. He brought his collections to Europe in 1828, and, after distri-
buting them, he arranged to return to South Africa for further exploration.
He visited the vicinity of Cape Town, and then made a journey into Caffraria,
He returned to the same region afterwards in the company of Zeyher, and,
having amassed a large and valuable collection, the two explorers returned to
Hamburg, in 1832, to superintend their distribution, and to publish a descrip-
tion of the novelties, which they did in their 'Enumeratio Plant. Africae
Australis Extratropicae.' He returned again to the Cape, where, with the excep-
tion of another short visit to Europe, he has remained, quietly pursuing his
botanical investigations until his death.
We undei'stand that the Horticultural Society of Russia has appointed Dr.
M. T. Masters, Spring Grove, Isleworth, and Mr. H. J. Yeitch, King's Road,
Chelsea, as its representatives in this country, with the object of promoting tlie
interests of the International Horticultural Exhibition to be held under its
auspices at St. Petersburg in May next. ,