Baron de Ledeirir, the celebrated Russian botanist, died at Munich on the 23d of July, aged sixty-five. At the early age of nineteen he was appointed Professor of Botany in the University of Dorpat, and in 1820 he obtained the botanical chair in the University of St. Petersburg. In 1821 he was elected member of the Imperial Academy of Sciences, and by order of the Emperor Alexander undertook to compile the _Russian Flora_. To collect materials for this great work he spent sixteen years in visiting different parts of the vast Empire of Russia, and went as far as the frontiers of China and into Siberia. In 1848 the state of his health obliged him to take up his residence at Munich. There he labored at his _Flora_, and had the satisfaction of completing it two months before his death. * * * * * Edward Quillinan, son-in-law to Wordsworth, and known in the select rather than in the wide world of letters, as a poet, a scholar, a contributor to more than one literary publication, and the author of one or two separate works, died in July. * * * * * Harriet Lee, the celebrated writer of the "Canterbury Tales," was the youngest sister of Sophia Lee, the author of _The Recess_, and of many popular dramas and novels. These ladies were daughters of John Lee, who had been bred to the law, but became an actor of much repute at Covent Garden Theatre, and ended his life as manager of the Bath Theatre. Sophia Lee, the elder daughter, who was born more than one hundred years ago (her sister Harriet, the subject of this notice, being a few years her junior), produced, in 1780, a comedy, entitled, "The Chapter of Accidents," which was performed with considerable success. The profits enabled the two sisters to open a school at Bath, which they carried on for many years with high credit and prosperity. In 1782 Sophia Lee brought out her most popular novel, _The Recess_, which was followed by other tales, and by _Almayda, Queen of Grenada_, a tragedy, in which Mrs. Siddons acted. Soon after, Harriet Lee published the first five volumes of her _Canterbury Tales_. Two of the stories, _The Young Lady's Tale_, and the _The Clergyman's Tale_, were written by her sister Sophia; the rest by herself. One of these Canterbury Tales, by Harriet Lee, named _Kruitzner_, became afterwards famous for having formed the subject and the plot of Byron's gloomy tragedy of _Werner_. Harriet Lee's other principal works were the _Error of Innocence_, a novel; the _Mysterious Marriage_, a play; _Clara Lennox_, a novel; and a _New Peerage_, begun in 1787. The last days of the sisters were passed near Bristol, where Sophia died in 1824, and Harriet on the first of August, 1851. * * * * *