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the fauna of the Niger, but hindrances detained him in the un- 

 healthy lower tracts of country; and on 14th January, 1883, he 

 died of dysentery, at the early age of 27. 



Mr. Forbes began, like so many others, with a strong predilec- 

 tion for entomological studies, and his earliest papers relate to 

 entomological subjects. However, by degrees, he gave almost 

 his whole time to the investigation of the comparative anatomy of 

 vertebrates, and chiefly of birds. The results of his investigations 

 appeared in the form of numerous papers in the "Ibis" and in 

 the Proceedings of the Zoological Society of London, as well as a 

 smaller number in other scientific periodicals. His last work 

 before leaving England was to finish a memoir on the anatomy of 

 the petrels, a work since published in the "Zoology of the Chal- 

 lenger Expedition." 



His premature death has cut short the promise of an eminently 

 successful and useful career as a scientific man. 



NOTICES OF NEW WOEKS. 



ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 



Journal of Botany, 1883. H. &J. Groves. Notes on British Characese, 

 the result of the examination of specimens, which had passed through their 

 hands during 1882. A list of species, with their distribution as worked out 

 during the year, is given, in which several Scottish localities are included ; but 

 it is stated that from one half the botanical provinces into which Scotland is 

 divided, they have no information, and cannot record a single species, and 

 they add, " We shall therefore be very glad to see any specimens that may be 

 collected, in order as far as possible to complete the census." The following 

 are recorded for Scotland : — Chara fragilis Desv. (from Kirkcudbright to 

 Orkney), var. barbata from Stirling ; var. Hedwigii, Dumfries ; var. delicatula, 

 Kirkcudbright, Braemar, and Orkney. C. aspera Willd., Sutherland and 

 Orkney; C. polyacanl/ia Br., Roxburgh; C. contraria Kuetz., Haddington; 

 C. hispida L. , East Perth; C. vulgaris L., Sutherland and Caithness; var. 

 atrcvirens, Orkney ; Nitella translucens Ag., Perth, N. flexilis L. Kirkcud- 

 bright, E. Perth ; var. crassa Braun., W. & E., Perth, differs from type in its 

 much stouter stems and branchlets, and shorter end-segments, much resemb- 

 ling N. translucens, from which it differs in its end-segments consisting of one 

 cell only, and in absence of the bright shining green colour ; occurs in deep 

 water, and may be 4 or 5 feet long ; var. nidifica Wallm., E. Perth ; N. opaca 

 Ag., Kirkcudbright to Caithness. 



Arthur Bennett, Two new Potamogetons ; of these P. Grifithii, sp. n., 

 was found in Aber lake in Wales, at 1250 feet above the sea-level, and should 

 be looked for in Scotland ; it has much the habit of P. prcelongus Wulfen. 

 but differs in having floating leaves ; Mr. Bennett has described and figured it, 

 Midland Naturalist, Jan. 1883. G. C. Druce. A Visit to Glens Clova 

 and Callater. 



Grevillea, Vol. XL, September, 1882, to June, 1883. C. B. Plowright. 

 A Monograph of the British Hypomyces : with illustrations of all the 

 species, by Dr. M. C. Cooke. (12 plates accompany this monograph). 

 On the Hetercecism of the Uredines ; Experiments upon the 

 Heteroecism of the Uredines; and Classification of the Uredines. 

 Dr. M. C. Cooke, New British Fungi ; among the species described are the 

 following from Scotland : — Ovularia Svringa B. & Br., in Gard. Chron. 1881, 

 II. p. 665, found on Lilacs in Aberdeenshire, by Mr. A. S. Wilson ; Ratnu- 

 laria pruinosa Speg. , from Forres, Rev. J. Keith; Puccinia Oxyrice Fckl., from 



