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of the first catalogue of Trades cant's plants. The generally-quoted edition appeared in 

 1656. Seven hundred and fifty species and varieties are listed in this first edition. A cata- 

 lo5^ue of fruits occupies the last five pages. — K. M. Wiegand. 



699. GuNTHER, R. T. Walter Stonehouse (1597-1655). Jour. Botany 58: 170-173. 1920. 

 — Mr. Stonehouse, the botanist, is shown to be identical with Rev. Walter Stonehouse, 

 of Magdalen College, Oxford, — a fact not before generally known. The identity was dis- 

 covered through an anonymous Catalogus Plantarum Horti mei Darfeldiae Quibus, etc., 

 and passages in John Tradescant's Musaeum Tradescantianum. Stonehouse was a 

 Londoner, born in 1597, and later a scholar of Wadham College, Oxford, taking his B.A. degree 

 in 1616-17, and becoming a Fellow of Magdalen College in 1617. In 1629 he became a Bach- 

 elor of Divinity, and resigned from the college, becoming rector of Darfield. An account 

 is given of his association with Thomas Johnson and others, and of a trip with these gentle- 

 men to the mountains of North Wales. About 1648 he was forcibly ejected from his parish 

 by the Parliamentary Commissioners. Stonehouse was personally acquainted with Park- 

 inson. — K. M. Wiegand. 



700. Hutt, W. M. Past history of the American pomological society. Proc. Amer. 

 Pomol. Soc. 1917: 1-10. 1918. — A general paper. Attention is drawn to the fact that mem- 

 bers of the society tested the different varieties of fruits in the United States long before 

 the organization of agricultural colleges and experiment stations. Rules of nomenclature, 

 which are still used as standard, were passed. — A statement regarding the financial standing 

 of the Society is included. — E. C. Auchter. 



701. Linton, Edward Francis. William Moyle Rogers (1835-1920). Jour. Botany 58: 

 161-164. Portrait. 1920. — Rogers was born at Helston, Cornwall, July 12, 1835, and was 

 educated at Helston Grammar School, where he was later an assistant master. After a 

 short residence in Dublin he went to South Africa as vice-principal of a college there. At 

 about this time he was ordained to priesthood. In 1862 he returned home, and, after occupy- 

 ing a series of clerical positions, became vicar of Bridgerule, Devon, in 1882, from which posi- 

 tion he retired in 1885. A detailed account is given of Rogers's very numerous contributions 

 on botanical subjects, especially of his papers on Rubus, on which genus he became a special- 

 ist. These studies resulted in a Handbook of the British Rubi in 1900. During his later 

 years he often assisted the clergy about Bornemouth, his home, until his death on May 26, 

 1920.— K. M. Wiegand. 



702. Mattirolo, Oreste. Pietro Andrea Saccardo — Treviso 23 Aprile 1845 — Padova 12 

 Febraio 1920. [Commemoration of Pietro Andrea Saccardo, b. April 23, 1845 at Treviso, d. 

 February 12, 1920, at Padua.] Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino 55: 468-473. 1919-1920.— His chief 

 works were: Sylloge fungorum omnium hucusque cognitorum. 22 volumes; Prevedibili funghi 

 futiiri secondo la legge di analogia, 1896; Botanica in Italia; Cronologia delta Flora italiana; 

 Flora Tarvisina Renovata; Enumerazione critica delle piante vascolari finora note nella pro- 

 vincia Treviso. — Harriet M. Libby. 



703. Mattirolo, Oreste. Commemorazione di Saverio Belli. [Memorial to Saverio 

 Belli.] Atti R. Accad. Sci. Torino 55: 8-30. 1919-1920.— Saverio Belli was director of the 

 Botanical Gardens at Turin, professor of botany at the University of Cagliari, member of the 

 Royal Academy of Agriculture, and of many scientific societies. His chief fields of research 

 were in taxonomy, anatomy, and physiology and are concerned mainly with the genera, 

 Trifolium and Hieracium. His researches in systematic botany established the reality of 

 the species of a genus or a family as the descendants of a common genealogical tree, with 

 phylogenetic ramifications both in time and space. In anatomy, he showed that neither 

 endoderm nor pericycle exist in Trifolium and many other plants, and that therefore the 

 theory of the stele can not have general application. — A complete bibliography of his works is 

 given covering the studies on Trifolium and Hieracium, taxonomy of phanerogams and 

 cryptogams, and miscellaneous works. — Harriet M. Libby. 



