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1647. Balfour, F. R. S. Gaston Allard, of Angers. Roy. Bot. Gard. Kew Bull. Misc. 

 Inform. 1918: 124-125. 1918.— Brief obituary of M. Allard, who died in January, 1918, nearly 

 80 years of age, and a note upon his famous arboretum, containing a large collection of trees 

 from North America, China, Japan, and the Mediterranean littoral, which has been be- 

 queathed to the Pasteur Institute. — M. F. Warner. 



1648. Bois, Desire. Jules Poisson (20 avril 1833—31 novembre 1919). Bull. Soc. Nat. 

 Acclim. France 67: 18-19. 1920.— Poisson was extraordinarily gifted in his knowledge of 

 plants, particularly in identification of fragmentary material. He described many new 

 genera and wrote a monograph of the Casuarineae. The genus Poissonia (Leguminosae) 

 was dedicated to him by Baillon. — M. F. Warner. 



1649. BoRzi, Antonino. [Giovanni Briosi.] Atti R. Accad. Lincei Roma Rendiconti 

 CI. Sci. Fis. Mat. e Nat. 29>: 118-123. 1920.— Born April 29, 1846; died July 20, 1919. [See 

 also Bot. Absts. 7, Entry 707; 8, Entry 895.]— il/. F. Warner. 



1650. BouLGER, G. S. A seventeenth-century botanist friendship. Jour. Botany 66: 

 197-202. 1918. — Evidence of the friendship of the elder John Tradescant with Parkinson is 

 found in the numerous passages of his Paradisus in which Parkinson mentions Tradescant. 

 At the end of the copy of the Paradisus here discussed there is, apparently in the handwriting 

 of John Tradescant himself, a list of plants received in various years. Also a manuscript 

 list, almost certainly in the handwriting of EliasAshmole, of Trees found in Mr. Tradescants 

 Ground when it came into my Possession. The date of this list is probably about 1662.— 

 Neil E. Stevens. 



1651. Bower, F. O. Botanical research in the United Kingdom during the war. Amer. 

 Jour. Sci. 47: 117-122. 1919. — A summary of the more important botanical discoveries and 

 publications during the period of the great war. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1652. Braun, Siegfried. Zum 200jahrigen Jubilaum der Baumschulfirma Ludwig 

 Spath in Berlin-Baumschulenweg am 11. September 1920. [For the celebration of the 200th 

 anniversary of the nursery firm Ludwig Spath, September 11, 1920.] Mollers Deutsch. Gart. 

 Zeitg. 35: 232-233, 238-240, 258-2(.0. Illus. 1920.— The business was founded in September, 

 1720, by Christoph Spath, who died May 1, 1746, aged 50 years, and has been carried on by the 

 family for 5 successive generations: Karl Friedrich (1721-1782), Karl Friedrich, Jr. (1768- 

 1831), Johann Ludwig Karl (1793-1883), Franz (1839-1913), and the present head of the finn, 

 Dr. Hellmut Spath.— il/. F. Warner. 



1653. [Britten, James.] An averted calamity. Jour. Botany 56: 50-52. 1918.— This 

 note deals chiefly with the contemplated appropriation of the buildings of the British Museum 

 (Natural History) for war purposes. The last paragraph, however, names various ways in 

 which the department of botany of that institution has rendered direct service to the govern- 

 ment during the war. — Neil E. Stevens. 



1654. Britten, James. Tournefort's "Topographie Botanique." (Bibliographical notes 

 LXXI.) Jour. Botany 56: 118-121. 1918. — A description of a little-known manuscript, now 

 in the Department of Botany of the British Museum, with references to information regarding 

 this and other manuscripts of Tournefort. — N eil E. Stevens. 



1655. Britten, James. Maund's "The Botanist" (1836-1842?). (Bibliographical notes. 

 LXXIII.) Jour. Botany 56: 235-243. 1918.— The first number of The Botanist was printed 

 about September, 1836, and the last probably in 1842, as determined by evidence presented 

 in this note. The magazine is described and a list of the new species published therein is 

 given; as well as some notes on the *'conductor,"Benjamin Maund, and several contributors. — 

 Neil E. Stevens. 



