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1169. Camus, Feenand. Documents pour servir a I'histoire de la botanique dans I'Ouest 

 de la France. I. Une lettre inedite de Franfois Bonamy. [Documents relating to the history 

 of botany in the west of France. I. An unpublished letter of Francois Bonamy.] liuli. See. 

 Sci. Nat. Quest France III, 5: 31-51. 1915-19 [1920?].— A letter found in the Bomet-Thuret 

 cryptogaraic collection at the Paris Natural History Museum, transmitting to A. L. de Jussieu 

 specimens of Ephedra, is occasion for notes on Bonamy's Florae Nannetensis Prodromus 

 (1782) and its Addenda (17S5), with a few personal data in regard to the author. — M. F. Warner. 



1170. Chhistt, Miller. Wistman's wood on Dartmoor. Country Life [London] 49: 

 812 — 813. Illus. 1921. — This is a unique bit of woodland in the heart of Devon, established 

 in a heap of angular masses of granite, and stretching along the steep side of the valley of the 

 East Dart for perhaps 400 yards, nowhere over 100 yards wide. With the exception of 3 or 4 

 bushes of mountain ash, it consists of oaks, all apparently Quercus pedunculata. Though of 

 great age, they are amazingly dwarfed and stunted, their average height being about 10 feet, 

 the highest not over 15, while in girth the average is 40-60 inches, and 1 tree measured 78. 

 They are in vigorous condition, producing acorns, and a number of young trees are found among 

 them. There is a remarkable epiphytic growth of mosses, lichens, and polypody, possible 

 only on trees of great age and in an exceedingly moist climate, there being an average rainfall 

 possibly exceeding SO inches. The wood was described by Tristram Risdon 300 years ago 

 exactly as it exists today, and although the tradition that it is entered in the Domesday Book 

 is unsupported, records indicate that some of the trees are well over 500 years old, and the 

 wood itself far older. It has figured in most of the writings on local history and topography, 

 also in the stories of Eden Phillpotts. Its name probably indicates that a "wistman," or 

 "wiseman," an ancient holy man or hermit, once dwelt in it. — M. F. Warner. 



1171. DocTERS VAN Leetjwen, W. M. In memoriam Dr. S. H. Koorders. Bull. Jard. 

 Bot. Buitenzorg III, 2: 237-241. Portrait. 1920.— Dr. Koorders died in November 1919, 

 after more than 35 years in the forest service of the Dutch East Indies. The value of his 

 botanical work for the colonies, and especially for the Buitenzorg Garden, which he enriched 

 by the addition of over 40,000 herbarium specimens, is noted; also his more important publica- 

 tions on the forest flora of Java and other works on the colonial flora. A few notes are added 

 from a more extended biography by E. H. B. Brascamp, in Tectona 13: 378-504. 1920. — M. 

 F. Warner. 



1172. Druce, G. C. Edward Morgan's Hortus Siccus. Bot. Soc. and Exchange Club 

 British Isles Rept. (1919) 5: 722-724. 1920.— Among the Ashmole MSS. in the Bodleian 

 Library at Oxford are three folio volumes entitled: Hortus Siccus sive Collectio Plantarum 

 ab ipso Eduardo Morgano Facta Ordine Alphabetico, bis Mille Circiter Plantarima Species 

 Exhibens. This collection, which appears to have been begun in 1672, is probably that of the 

 Edward Morgan who lived at Bodesclan, now Bodysgallan, in Wales, who accompanied 

 Thomas Johnson on his expedition into North Wales in 1639. — G. Claridge Druce. 



1173. [Druce, G. C] Ferdinand Bauer and his landscape drawings. Bot. Soc. and Ex- 

 change Club British Isles Rept. (1917) 5 : 143-144. 1918. — A collection of water colors by this 

 botanical artist (1760-1829) is noted with brief details of his life. — G. Claridge Druce. 



1174. [Druce, G. C] John RadclifEe, Bishop of London, as botanist. Bot. Soc. and Ex- 

 change Club British Isles Rept. (1917) 5 : 142. 1918.— A copy of Sibthorp's Flora Oxoniensis, 

 which was bought by Sir William Osier in 1917, contains numerous MS. notes on plants of 

 Ewelme in Oxfordshire. These have been traced to Bishop Radcliffe (1749-1S2S), and 

 indicate that he had an excellent knowledge of botany. — G. Claridge Druce. 



1175. [Druce, G. C] Obituaries. Bot. Soc. and Exchange Club British Isles Rept. 

 (1917) 5: 86-93. 1918.— Obituary notices of the following are included: Sarah M. Baker 

 (died 1917?); Robert Braithwaite (1824-1917); Walter Butt (1850?-1917) ; Charles Thomas 

 Druery (1843-1917); Edward Evans (1846-1917); William Foggitt (1835-1917); Alan Gordon 



