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Specimens of the following species, which are not entered for 

 Berwickshire in the "Census," were also sent by me to the referees 

 from that county in 1895 (see my paper on Berwickshire Land and 

 Freshwater Mollusca in "Proceedings Berw. Nat. Club," vol. xv., 

 1894-95): Agriolimax lavis, Sucdnea elegans, Helix arbustorum, 

 Helix granulata, Helix fusca, Pnfa anglica ( = ringens, Jeff.), 

 Vertigo pygmcea, Clansilia bidentata, and Limncea truncatula. 



I may add that on i2th February last I found Azeca tridens in 

 some numbers on a mossy bank near Bridge of Allan, West Perth. 

 It was first found in this locality by Mr. Foulis in 1868 (see "Proc. 

 Glasgow Nat. Hist. Soc.," i. 240); and rediscovered by Mr. A. 



M'Lellan, Stirling, in April 1896. I hunted it up independently. 



WILLIAM EVANS, Edinburgh. 



BOTANICAL NOTES AND NEWS. 



Botanic Garden in Aberdeen. A most valuable addition has 

 been made to the facilities for the study of Botany in Aberdeen by the 

 gift of ,15,000 for the formation and upkeep of a Botanic Garden 

 in Old Aberdeen. Miss Anne H. Cruickshank, daughter of a 

 former Professor of Mathematics in Marischal College and Uni- 

 versity, has connected this gift with the memory of her late brother, 

 Dr. Alexander Cruickshank, an ardent student of natural science, 

 and a successful student despite physical defects from infancy that 

 would have crushed a weaker nature. The object of the gift is to 

 promote higher teaching and research in Botany, and the administra- 

 tion is committed to six Trustees (the Principal of the University and 

 the Professors of Botany and of Mathematics, all ex officiis, and three 

 others named personally), who shall use the proceeds to further 

 botanical teaching and study within the University of Aberdeen, and 

 shall also permit the access of the public to the Garden under suit- 

 able regulations. A year or so must elapse before the Garden can 

 be equipped, but it should prove a valuable aid to botanical research 

 in Aberdeen. 



Claytonia perfoliata, Don. This North American plant, which 

 is common in some parts of England, but rare in Scotland, was found 

 by Mr. A. Calder of Portobello, thoroughly established at Portincross, 

 near Kilbride in Ayrshire, in May 1898. It is recorded in Dr. F. 

 Buchanan White's "Flora of Perthshire," but in no other of the 

 published local Floras of Scotland. A. B. STEELE, Edinburgh. 

 [See "Ann. Scot. Nat. Hist.," 1898, p. 102. ED.] 



Mosses and Hepaties near Edinburgh. The following rather 

 rare mosses and hepatics have recently been collected in the 

 neighbourhood of Edinburgh by Mr. Alister Murray and Mr. Charles 



