GENERAL NOTES 281 



The first part contains illustrations of the following 

 plants : — 



Agapanthus nnihellatus 



Aloe glohuligcinnia. 



Arctotis Fosteri. 



Gyrtan th us contractus. 



Gerhera Jamcsonl 



Gladiolus Psittacinus var. Cooperi. 



Leucadendron Stokoei (male). 



Leucadeudron Stokoei (female). 



Tulhaghia uiolacea 



Richardia angiistilo'ba. 



The American Society of Mammalogists. 



We have pleasure in welcoming to biological science 

 the recently formed '' American Society of Mammalogists", 

 the headquarters of which are at Washington, D.C. This 

 is the first society of its kind, and as such we tender 

 our congratulations and best wishes for its prosperity 

 and the attainment of its ideals. The first number of its 

 Journal appeared in November, 1919, and in the 

 " Editorial Comment " it is stated that, " Systematic 

 work, life history and habits of mammals, evolution, 

 palaeontology, anatomy and every phase of technical and 

 popular mammalogy are to come within the scope of the 

 society and its publications ". 



Mammalogy has not, in the past, attracted so great a 

 number of followers as we find in the more aesthetic 

 studies of botany, ornithology and entomology, hence 

 papers upon the subject are scattered amongst journals 

 covering a wide field; yet there are not wanting a great 

 number of technical students, not to mention many sports- 

 men and others interested in the larger and diurnal 

 mammals, scattered in all parts of the universe, to whbm 

 the formation of this society will specially appeal, and 

 it will therefore fill a long-felt need. As the title of 



