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perusal. Prof. Geikie contributes Geological Notes oh Oxnam Parish ; 

 Dr. C. Stuart gives Notes on damage to Trees caused by the Frosts 

 of 1879-80 and following years in Berwickshire ; and also on 

 Shippath Dean, in Lammermoor, on The Migration of Birds, 

 and on the Weather of 1885, and Notes on Birds. Other notes on 

 birds are Curious Nesting-place of the Great Tit (in a letter box), 

 by Miss C. H. Greet ; On the Occurrence and Migration of Birds 

 in the Belford District for 1885, by John Aitchison ; On the Habits 

 of the Ox-eye when feeding its young, by Tames Wood ; Natural 

 History Observations in 1885, by John Thomson ; Ornithological 

 Notes, by George Bolam ; and on the Occurrence of Birds in the 

 East Lothian during 1885, by George Pow. Mr James Hardy con- 

 tributes a very full History of Chareas graminis, the Grass or 

 Antler Moth on the Borders ; in Localities for Plants A. H. 

 Evans adds several Phanerogams to the list for the district ; and in Aln- 

 mouth Marine Algae several interesting Algse are noticed by Andrew 

 Amory. Obituary Notices of the following members of the Club are also 

 given in this volume : Rev. John F. Bigge, Henry Gregson, J.P., 

 Prof J. H. Balfour, John Towlerton Leather, Rev. Wm. 

 Darnell, Rev. Wm. Stobbs, Henry Richardson, M.D., and 

 Sir George H. S. Douglas. 



Enough has been said to show our readers the value and importance of the 

 volume under review. 



EEVIEW OP LONDON CATALOGUE OP PLANTS, Ed. 8. 



My review of the London Catalogue which appeared in the last number of this 

 Journal, stated that Ranunculus parvifloruc, Malva parviflora, and Prunu* 

 institia were originally named by Hudson, not Linnaeus. This was erroneous. 

 The mistake arose from my attaching a wrong slip to the sheet when, in great 

 haste, correcting the proofs. I wrote directly afterwards to the printers, but 

 too late to stop its insertion. I may now state that these names do not appear 

 in the first edition of the " Specimen Plantarum." The Ranunculus is de- 

 scribed for the first time in the " Systema Naturae " in 1759 ; the Malva in the 

 " Amoenitates Academicae" in 1753 (the Hudsonian parvijiora is supposed to 

 be the M. borealis, Wallm. the pusilla of Withering), and the Prunus institia 

 in the " Centuria " in 1755. Myrrhis Odorata, I stated, did not need a capital 

 letter for the specific name. Subsequent research, however, reveals that by 

 Rivini, it was called " Odorata" only, so it is more correct to write it with 

 the capital. I also said that the Sibthorpian Medicago maculata, 1794, must 

 give way to the name of M. arabica, All. in " Flor. Pedem.," 1785. This will 

 probably have to be quoted M. arabica, Curtis, a beautiful figure and good 

 description being given by Curtis in the " Flor. Lond.," I believe, prior to 

 the publication of Allione's Flora. Capital letters are needed in the specific 

 names of Hippophae, Stratiotes, and Scabiosa Succisa, as Tournefort called 

 the first Rhamnoides Jlorifera, Boerhaave described the second asAloides, and 

 Haller named the third Succisa. G. Claridcje Druce. 



