Among the recent deaths botantists will regret, is that of Judge Clinton, of Buffalo, N. Y., who died suddenly on the 7th of September, in his seventy-eighth year. Notwithstanding his age, he continued his botanical studies, and was found dead in a cemetery where he had wandered in search of plants. His father, Governor De Witt Clinton, was also a patron of botany, and is commemorated in Clin-tonia borealis and C. multirlora, North American plants of the Solomon's Seal family, the name having been given by Rafinesque. This was not thought to be a good genus at one time, and the plant was known as Smilacina borealis. Douglas then founded another genus Clintonia on a pretty blue Lobeliaceous plant from the Pacific coast, still known in some seed catalogues as Clintonia elegans. But when Rafinesque's name was adopted by botanists, and, under the rule, the later names have to be dropped, the Pacific plants were re-named and are now Downingia, so named by Torrey, after our famous landscape gardener, A. J. Downing. Judge Clinton was one of the most amiable of men, and beloved by all who knew him.