506 SUMMARY OF CURRENT RESEARCHES RELATING TO 



(5) Porolithon orikodes. Finally, the author divides up the genera 

 Lithothamnium and Lithophyllum into sections according to anatomical 



characters, giving the species which fall into each section. A few words 

 arc given to the genera Meloiesia and Mastophora. This paper is of 

 great value to systematists, since it shows how the genera of the Melo- 

 liesiere can be distinguished in the absence of reproductive organs, 

 hitherto deemed indispensable; indeed, by means of anatomical cha- 

 racters, genera which have with difficulty been distinguished even with 

 the help of anatomical characters, can now be recognized with ease. 



Lithophyllum fasciculatum.*— A. I). Cotton points out an omission 

 in the valuable Catalogue of British Marine Alga, published in 1902 by 

 Batters. That author there omits all mention of Lithophyllum fascicu- 

 latum Fosl. ( = Melobesia fasciculata in Harvey's Phycologia Britannica), 

 including instead its varieties under L. Racemus. Certain evidence shows 

 clearly that the omission was an oversight, and in the present paper 

 the distribution of the two species is given. L. Racemus Fosl. : North 

 Atlantic, Mediterranean, Adriatic, English Channel (Falmouth, only 

 dead specimens known), Bahamas, Red Sea, Indian Ocean (Mauritius. 

 Rodriguez). L. fasciculatum Fosl. : Co. Galway, Co. Cork, Co. Waterford. 



Algae of the West Coast of Norway.f — H. Kylin writes on the 

 marine algfe of the west coast of Norway, which he studied during a 

 visit to a village near Bergen in 11)08. He remarks on the different 

 formations of the open and of the protected coast, dividing the former 

 into the Porphyra, CaUithamniou, Corattina, Giyartina, Himanthalia, 

 Alalia, and Laminaria formations. In the latter the formations are 

 Pelvetia,Fucus Areschougii, Ascophyllum Fucus, Fucus serratus, HaUdrys, 

 and Chord: i. These formations he discusses shortly. Then follows a list 

 of species found by him, to which he appends in many instances critical 

 notes and figures. He adds thirty-five new records to the alga; of that 

 coast, of which three are new to science, Pseudoprinysheimia penetrans, 

 Streblonema inclusum, and Asperococcus norvegicus. 



Edward Perceval Wright (1834-1911)4— E. P.Wright is the subject 

 of an anonymous obituary notice. While a student at Trinity College, 

 Dublin, he became for twelve years editor of the Natural History Review ; 

 and while reading for his medical degree was lecturer in zoology and 

 botany. He qualified himself to specialize as an oculist, but, becoming 

 appointed locum tenens for W. H. Harvey, he determined to abandon 

 ophthalmological work in 1S66, and to take up science as his profession. 

 After his expedition to the Seychelles Islands in 1S67, the success of 

 which was injured by a shipwreck, he published a number of papers on 

 his results. In 1869 he was appointed Professor of Botany in succession 

 to Harvey, and published some important papers on the structure and 

 development of Alga?. He spent much time in putting the College 

 Herbarium into proper order. In the bibliography appended to the 

 notice sixty of Wright's papers are cited. 



* Journ. Bot., xlix. (1911) pp. 115-17. 



t Arkiv Botanik, x. (1910) pp. 1-37. 



% Notes Bot. School Inn. Coll. Dublin, ii. (1910) pp. 91-7 (portrait).] 



