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280 BOTANICAL NEWS.
Wendland, who for fifty-three years was the head of the Royal Berg-garden of
Herrenhauseu, near Hanover, and who attained the advanced age of seventy-
eight. He was the son of Johann Ctir. Wendland (the coadjutor of Schrader),
and the father of Hermann Wendland, author of several valuable papers
on Palms. Though displaying less literary activity than his father, we have
from his pen a work on the phyllodinous Acacias (' Commentatio de Acaciis
AphyUis,' Hannoverse, 1820), in which he describes and figures a number
of new species of that group, with which he had become acquainted chiefly
during his stay in England ; and, a few years later, in conjunction with
Professor Bartling, of Grottingen, his ' Beitrage zur Botanik ' (Contributions
to Botany), of which two volumes appeared (1824-25), the first contain-
ing the well-known monograph on Diosmem, the second, miscellaneous matter.
Subsequently he published merely a few short horticultural and botanical
articles in Grerman periodicals, but to the last he took a vivid interest in all
that relates to botany and gardening. The establishment under his charge
was admirably conducted and pre-eminently rich in fermanently-grown species,
though some of the Continental Botanic G-ardens beat it by counting those
annuals and biennials, grown only at periods varying fi-om two to four years.
Wendland was fond of old garden-plants, and resisted, as far as lay in his
power, the application of the doctrine that selection rather than collection
should be aimed at in these places. His garden though never recognized as
a botanic garden in the limited sense it is understood in Germany (it not being
attached to any University, nor having any professors connected with it), was
always regarded as one of the leading establishments of the country, where a
large collection of well-grown and corrcctly-uamed plants was to be found. It
is generally acknowledged that it was entirely due to Wendland's influence
that Palms and Cycads (of which he cultivated the largest collection) are now
so extensively cultivated on the Continent, and have houses built for their
exclusive reception. Wendland was neat and careful in his habits, and gen-
tlemanly in look and manners.
The public papers contain the following sad news :—On Tuesday, July
I7th, the Steam Navigation Company's boat, the ' Eagle,' took up among her
passengers from the Metropolis to the Isle of Thanet, a gentleman about fifty
years of age, with his son, a youth of about thirteen years. When the boat
got to the Lower Hope, below Gravesend, the gentleman was seen by the mate
suddenly to fall from the sponsons into the river. Tiie alarm was at once
given, the steamer was stopped, and a boat was lowered to recover the unhappy
man, but without success, and after ronaining half an hour search-
ing for him, the steamer proceeded on her journey, carrying with her the
despairing son. It transpired that the unfortunate gentleman was named
William John Salter, A.L.S., and that he resided at St. George's Road, Kil-
burn. He was by profession a geologist and botanical draughtsman.
We regret to have to announce the death of Dr. Cams, of Dresden, President
of the Imperial German Academy Naturae Curiosorum, and ex officio " Comes
Palatinus Csesareus."