BIOGRAPHICAL INDEX 
BRITISH AND IRISH BOTANISTS. 
JAMES BRITTEN, F.L.S., and G.S. BOULGER, F.L.S. 
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(See review in this number of the BuLiETIN.) 
This Index, which has been published in the numbersof the “‘ Journal of Bot- 
any” for the last three years, and which is now nearly completed in its serial 
issue, has elicited much more general interest than its compilers expected. 
During its progress through the pages of the Journal, the authors have made 
numerous additions to the information given, and some corrections. The 
list of names has also been considerably extended, and will be brought down 
‘to the end of 1890. They have been encouraged to think that a reprint of the 
list, embodying these additions and corrections, would be convenient for those 
who find it somewhat difficult of consultation in its present form, and would 
also serve as a handy volume of reference for others specially interested in 
Botanical Biography. 
The plan of the work, as readers of the ‘‘ Journal of Botany” will be 
aware, has been to be liberal in including all who have in any way contributed 
to the literature of the science, who have made scientific collections of plants, 
or who are known to have otherwise assisted in the progress of Botany, exclu- 
sive of pure Horticulture. Where known, the name is followed by the years 
of birth and death, and in other cases an approximate date is given. Then 
follows the place and day of birth and death, the place of burial, chief titles, 
dates of election tothe Linnawn and Royal Societies, or chief University 
degrees. In conclusion, reference is made to the chief sources of further 
information, in which Pulteney, Rees, Pritzel, Jackson, and the Royal Society’s 
Catalogue are first quoted, and then the fullest known record, with a note of 
any portrait and of genera dedicated to the various persons catalogued, or, in the 
absence of genera, of species. Some estimate of the extent of the work may 
be gathered from the fact that in its serial form it comprises nearly 1700 
names, and this number will be largel increased in the reprint. 
The volume will be bound in cloth, and will be issued at 4s. ( postage paid) 
per copy, to subscribers whose names are received before publication, the 
published price being 6s. 6d. The printing will be begun early in 1891, and the — 
book will be issued in the course of that year. Only 500 copies will be printed. 
Intending subscribers may send their names to 
EDITOR TORREY BOTANICAL CLUB, 
COLUMBIA COLLEGE, 
NEW YORK. 
