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Harper (1889-1917); Ruth Holden (1890-1917); Samuel Margerison (1857-1917); George Ed- 

 ward Massee (1850-1917) ; John Platts (1852-1917) ; Harry Sanderson (1871-1917) ; Worthington 

 G. Smith (1835-1917).— G. Claridge Druce. 



1176. [Druce, G. C] Obituaries. Bot. Soc. and Exchange Club British Isles Rept. 



(1918) 5: 349-365. 1919. — Brief biographical notices of the following: John Amphlett (died 

 1918) by Carleton Rea; James E. Bagnall (1830-1918); Clarence Bicknell (1842-1918) by 

 J. \Y. White; William Brack Boyd (1831-1918); Edward Fry (1827-1918); Joseph John Geake 

 (1890-1918); Charles Baylis Green (died 1918) by I. M. Roper; Reginald Philip Gregory 

 (1879-1918); Edward Walter Hunnybun (1&48-1918); Ernest David Marquand (1848-1918); 

 T. W. Martyn (died 1918); William Frederick Miller (1834-1918); John Mitchinson (1833- 

 1918); Ethel Sargant (1863-1918) by Beatrice Taylor.— G. Claridge Druce. 



1177. [Druce, G. C] Obituaries. Bot. Soc. and Exchange Club British Isles Rept. 



(1919) 5: 618-634. 1920. — The following biographical notices are included: Robert Chapman 

 Davie (1887-1919); James M'Andrew (1836-1917); Edward Shearburn Marshall (1858-1919) 

 by F. J. Hanbury; William Osier (1849-1919); Samuel Lister Petty (died 1919); Charles Lan- 

 celot Shadwell (1840-1919); Frederick John Smith (1853-1919); Magnus Spence (1853-1919); 

 James William Helenus Trail (1851-1919) ; William Tuckwell (1829-1919) ; Cosslett Herbert 

 Waddell (1858-1919); Anthony Wallis (died 1919); George Stephen West (1876-1919). Brief 

 mention is also made of the following: Casimir de Candolle; Prof. Cogniaux; W. G. Farlow; 

 F. Ducane Godman (died 1919); John Hopkinson (died 1919); A. E. Lechmere; Hector Leveille; 

 James Sawyer (died 1919); Henri Sudre (1862-1918).— G. Claridge Druce. 



1178. [Druce, G. C] Robert Dick, of Thurso. Bot. Soc. and Exchange Club British 

 Isles Rept. (1918) 5: 417. 1919. 



1179. [Druce, G. C] The dates of publication of Curtis's "Flora Londinensis." Bot. 

 Soc. and Exchange Club British Isles Rept. (1918) 5: 412-414. 1919. — A note supplementing 

 those of W. A. Clark, and Jackson and Pryor in Journal of Botany (1895 and 1881 respectively) 

 by giving dates for the first 10 parts of the 6th fascicle (1791-98), covering 54 species. No. 

 Ixi-Ixvi were issued before the end of 1791, Ixvii-lxx before the end of 1794; Ixxi probably 

 appeared in 1795, while Ixxii did not come out until about 1798. — G. Claridge Druce. 



1180. [Druce, G.C.] [Rev. of : Harvey Gibson, R. J. Outlinesof the history of botany. 

 via + 274 V- A. & C. Black: London, 1919 (see Bot. Absts. 7, Entry 1596).] Bot. Soc. and 

 Exchange Club British Isles Rept. (1919) 5: 594-596. 1920. 



1181. Gravis, Augusts. La morphologic vegetale. [Plant morphology.] Bull. Acad. Roy. 

 Belgique CI. Sci. 1920: 624-665. 1920 [1921].— There are presented: A history of plant 

 morphology; progress achieved; importance of the problems presented and the efforts to 

 solve them. The author gives a synoptical table of this history. — Henri Micheels. 



1182. Hoffman, G. N. Mt. Lebanon medicine makers — the Shakers. Pharm. Era 

 S3: 197-198, 229-231. 4 fig. 1920. — Their medicinal preparations from native plants, begun 

 as early as 1825, at one time amounted to 75 tons per year. They devised the vacuum process 

 of distillation about 1830, and cultivated drug plants at an early date. The growing and 

 sale of garden seeds was another important industry. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1183. J[ackson], B. D. James William Helenus Trail. Proc. Linn. Soc. London 132: 

 4^51. 1921.— A sketch of the life and work of Professor Trail (1851-1919), of Aberdeen, is 

 given. — M. F. Warner. 



1184. J[ackson], B. D. John Hopkinson. Proc. Linn. Soc. London 132: 43^5. 1921.— 

 John Hopkinson (1844-1919), actively engaged in business as a piano manufacturer, gave his 

 leisure to scientific pursuits, and for years specially studied graptolites. At the age of 15 he 

 began his herbarium, which in later life he gave to the St. Albans local museum. He was a 



