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HEPATIC/E OF BEN LAWERS DISTRICT. By Symers M. Macvicar. 

 Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. 1903, pp. 220-232. A long list, in which 

 several are recorded as new to Britain. 



ON THE HEPATIC^E OF BALMORAL, ABERDEENSHIRE. By G. 

 Stabler. Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. 1902, pp. 249-254. A full list of 

 species observed in the district, with occasional notes from other 

 parts of Braemar also. 



NOTES ON RECENT EXPERIENCES WITH DRY ROT. By Dr. 

 James Hunter, F.R.S.E. Trans. Bot. Soc. Ed. 1902, pp. 106- 

 109. 



FUNGI NEW TO BRITAIN. By Annie Lorrain Smith. Trans. 

 Brit. My col. Soc., March 1902, pp. 192-201. An enumeration of 

 species recently recorded, with descriptions, or with references to the 

 journals in which they are named. They include several from Scot- 

 land. 



THE FUNGI OF GERMINATING FARM-SEEDS. By Annie Lorrain 

 Smith. L.c., pp. 182-186, pi. ix. This notes the fungi observed 

 in seeds and fruits of agricultural plants germinating under control 

 in saucers. The plate is reproduced from ft. Microsc. Soc. Journ., 

 and shows nine species three of them regarded as new, one being 

 referred to a new genus. 



NOTES ON FRESHWATER ALG^:, III. By W. West and G. S. 

 West. Journ. Bot. 1903, pp. 33-41. Among many novelties 

 describes Thamniochate aculeata, n. sp., from Balallan, Lewis, Outer 

 Hebrides, and from Galway, Ireland. 



CRYPTOGAMIC EXCURSION TO KINNOULL HILL AND KINFAUNS, 

 on October 12, 1901, conducted by Dr. D. Paul. Proc. Perth. 

 Soc. Nat. Sci. III. pp. cix.-cxi. A list of Basidiomycetes observed 

 is given. 



NOTES ON CERTAIN PERTHSHIRE FUNGI. By James Menzies. 

 Trans. Perth. Soc. Nat. Sci. III. 1902, pp. 175-184, with 2 plates. 



BOOK NOTICE. 



A MANUAL OF PAL^EARCTIC BIRDS. By H. E. Dresser, F.L.S., 

 F.Z.S., etc. Part I. (London: Published by the Author, 3 

 Hanover Square.) 



A handy and authoritative volume on the Birds of Europe has 

 always been a great desideratum, and it has at last been more than 

 supplied by the book under consideration. The work, however, as 

 its title implies, covers a wider area, and furnishes a complete 

 account of the ornithology of that great natural region the Palae- 



