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society and is followed by reminiscences of the early days and former members by, H. M. 

 Denslow (p. 22-23), N. L. Britton (p. 24-28), and Arthur Hollick (p. 29-30).— A'"ez7 E. 

 Stevens. 



829. Barnhart, J. H. Some fictitious botanists. Jour. New York Bot. Gard. 20: 171- 

 181. 1919. — Fourteen so-called "botanists" from Appleton's Cyclopedia of American 

 Biography are listed, and evidence is presented to show that their supposed biographical 

 accounts are fictitious. — Neil E. Stevens. 



830. Bateson, W[illiam]. The late Mr. R. P. Gregory. Nature 102: 284. 1918.— See 

 Bot, Absts. 5, Entry 1234. 



831. Bois, Desire. Notice sur M. Maurice Leveque de Vilmorin. Bull. Soc. Bot. France 

 66: 140-143. 1919.— Auguste-Louis-Maurice Leveque de Vilmorin (1849-1918) was especially 

 interested in forest botany and the study of fruit and ornamental trees. A list of 20 of his 

 publications is given. — B. 0. Dodge. 



832. Botjlger, G. S., and James Britten. Joseph Andrews and his herbarium. Jour. 

 Botany 56: 257-261. 1918. — The British Museum (Natural History) contains a collection of 

 plants formed at Sudbury by the apothecary Joseph Andrews, between 1710 and 1757. An- 

 drews was a friend of Dale, and probably the man appointed in 1707 as inspector of the Chelsea 

 Garden, together with Wyche and Petiver. He is mentioned in Dillenius' edition of Ray's 

 Synopsis Methodica Plantarum Britannicarum, ed. 3, 1724, though it is not certain that 

 Dillenius was acquainted with Andrews, whose specimens are numbered in accordance with 

 the 2d ed. of Ray's Synopsis, but Andrews owned a copy of the Dillenian edition, afterwards 

 owned by the late W. A. Clarke, which contains a few marginal notes and references to other 

 authors. — M F. Warner. 



833. B[ower], F. O. Prof. "William Gilson Farlow. Nature 103: 509. 1919.— See also 

 Bot. Absts. 6, Entries 916, 947, 956, 963, 1463, 1470. 



834. Briquet, John. Notice sur la vie et les travaux botaniques de Louis Naville (1843- 

 1916). Ann Conservatoire et Jard. Bot. Geneve 20: 215-221. Portrait. 1919.— Constant- 

 Louis Naville of Geneva was a man of letters whose avocations were botany and mountain 

 climbing. He made numerous explorations throughout the Swiss Alps, Savoy, and Dauphiny, 

 collecting an herbarium of 3001 numbers, which he gave to the Conservatoire Botanique of 

 Geneva. He published nothing save a popular article, "La flore du Saleve," in 1885. — M. F. 

 Warner. 



835. BuNYARD, E. A. Cotton's "Planter's Manual." Gard. Chron. Ill, 63: 174r-175. 

 1918. — Published in 1675, by Charles Cotton, known as a poet and for his association with 

 Walton's Compleat Angler. Although from the preface it would appear that the book is 

 by Cotton himself, it is actually a translation from the "Instructions pour les arbres fruitiers" 

 first published 1653, by "M. R. T. P. D. S. M.," i.e., M. Robert Triquet, prieur de St. Marc, 

 who in turn was only editor, as the preface states that the book was written by Francois 

 Vautier, physician to Louis XIV. — M. F. Warner. 



836. BuNYARD, E. A. Henry van Oosten and the "Dutch gardener." Jour. Pomol- 

 ogy 1: 37-40. 1919. — For its pomological sources the "Dutch gardener" goes back 

 to La Quintinye, "Instructions pour les jardins potagers et fruitiers," pirated edition by 

 Desbordes, Amsterdam, 1699, which contains "L'Art de tailler les arbres fruitiers," con- 

 densed from Venette's book of the same title (1683). Mentions English translation of 

 Venette (1685), and hints that it may have been by Evelyn, as certain phrases have "his 

 unmistakeable ring about them." Mr. Bunyard does not give the earliest Dutch edition of 

 van Oosten, but mentions the English ones of 1703 and 1711, the German of 1706 under title: 

 "Niederlandischer blumen obst und orangeriegarten," the French under title: "Le jardin 

 d' Hollande." He finds that van Oosten borrowed the material on oranges directly from 

 La Quintinye himself. — M. F. Warner. 



