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and species." The changes are indeed often very great, e.g. 

 Radicula, Hill, for Nasturtium, and Alsine replacing Spergularia, 

 Lepigomi/u, and Buda. It is perhaps too much to expect that we shall 

 yet for a time obtain a fairly permanent scientific nomenclature, 

 but there can be no doubt that the names employed in this Ninth 

 Edition come nearer to this than do those employed in preceding 

 British floras. 



Despite the limitations under which the work has been done, 

 the book will be found most useful, indeed indispensable, by all 

 students of the British flora ; while it gives rise to the wish that the 

 editors had been free to give us a work fully representative, both 

 in form and in substance, of the present standpoint of botanical 

 science applied to that flora. 



Messrs. Gurney and Jackson have in preparation a new book 

 on British Mammals by our friend Captain Barrett-Hamilton, a well- 

 known authority who has devoted many years to the practical study 

 of the subject and to an examination of its voluminous literature. 

 It will to some extent be based on the work of the late Professor 

 Thomas Bell, inasmuch as the popular and readable portions of that 

 classic volume will be retained, but it will also be thoroughly 

 scientific and up to date. The work will be illustrated by a series 

 of coloured plates and other illustrations. Captain Barrett-Hamilton 

 will be glad to receive information relating to Scottish Mammals. 

 His address is Kilmanock House, Arthurstown, Waterford, Ireland. 



