Work Of Committees

Very few people know of the vast amount of work which falls on the members of local committees, whenever any one or two bodies meet together. At the recent meeting of the American Pomological Society, in Philadelphia, most of this hard work fell to the lot of Messrs. Mitchell, Harrison and Springs. Considering how very much they attempted, it is remarkable that there were so few hitches, and they well earned the praises we have heard so freely given to them.

Dr. Engelmann

Our magazine had barely appeared, before a note from Boston came from the Doctor, protesting against the suggestion that "he* might never return." It is at any rate a pleasure to all who know of his many good botanical labors, to learn that he is again among us, and with the promise of many more years of usefulness.

Mr. William Falconer

Mr. Charles A. Dana is reported to have secured Mr. Falconer, as gardener at Glen Cove. We sympathize with Cambridge Botanic Garden in its loss.

Director Of The Garden Of Plants At Paris

The Directorship, vacant by the death of Decaisne, has been filled by the appointment of Dr. Ed. Bureau, Professor of Botany in the Museum of Natural History.

The Conservatory

This is a new monthly magazine, devoted to the interests of the florists of New York, and elsewhere. There is much in it of interest to the cultivator of flowers, as well as commercial growers. W. McKlen Petingale, is the Editor.

Townsend Glover

This well-known Entomologist, died suddenly, in Washington, D. C, on the 8th of September, in his 71st year. He was an Englishman, but came to this country when a young man. For many years he contributed largely to the entomological literature of our country, and especially to the Patent Office reports on Agriculture.

Daniel Smith Of Newburgh

Among the losses to horticulture of the past month, must be recorded the death of Daniel Smith, of Newburgh, a zealous amateur, and one of the prominent founders of the Newburgh Bay Horticultural Society, of which he continued its Treasurer from its first organization. His death occurred on the 26th of September. He i was in his 73d year.

Herman Muller

This distinguished botanist died on the 25th of August, at Prad, in Switzerland, of pneumonia. Although but in middle age, he did much to render botany popular, by his numerous curious observations on the relation of insects to flowers.

The American Journal Of Forestry

The work is to be discontinued henceforth, through want of patronage, the publisher says. Its hasty discontinuance is to be regretted, as there is surely interest enough in the subject to support a special magazine.