62 BOTANJCAL NEWS. 



We lienr that Dr. Hootei-'s new ' Britisli Flora' is partly printed, and will, in 

 all probability, be published (Macmillan) during this spring. 



Dr. Benjamin Carrington's ' Monograph of the British Hepaticae' will be 

 sliortjy published (Hardwicke). There will be figures of all the species, the 

 whole of which are engraved. We are glad to find that Dr. Carrington intends 

 to adopt S. F. G-ray's names published in his ' Natural Arrangement of British 

 PIat)ts' (1821) in all cases where they have the right of priority over those gene- 

 rally adopted. (See Report of Edinb. Bot. Soc. in this Journal.) 



Mr. William Robinson, F.L.S., author of ' The Parks, Promenades, and 

 Gardens of Paris,' has nearly ready for publication (Warne and Co.) a book 

 on the common Mushroom and its cultivation. It is profusely illustrated, and 

 contains illustrations of 17 edible British Fungi, from the pencil of Mr. Wor- 

 thington Smith. 



Mr. J. Britten, of the Royal Herbarium, Kew, W., requests us to state that 

 he and Mr. Robert Holland, of Mobberley, Knutsford, Cheshire, are collecting 

 local English plant-names, and will thankfully receive and acknowledge any 

 information on the subject. 



Professor Oswald Heer announces that the second volume of his ' Fossil Flora 

 of the Polar Regions' will be shortly printed. It will contain : — 1. Contribu- 

 tions to the Fossil Flora of North Greenland, the plants collected by Mr. 

 Whymper in 1867 (with 18 plates). 2. Flora Fossilis Alaskana, containing the 

 plants collected by Mr. Furulijelm in the north part of Alaska territory (with 

 10 plates). 3. The Miocene and Diluvian Flora and Fauna of Spitzbergen, the 

 results of the Swiss expedition in 1868 (with 16 plates). 4. The Carboniferous 

 Flora of Bear-Island, containing the plants discovered by Professors Norden- 

 skiold and Malmgren (with 13-15 plates). Of these memoirs the first has 

 been published in the Royal Society's Transactions, and the other three in 

 the Memoirs of the Royal Academy of Science of Stockholm. The price of 

 the volume is 50 francs, and subscribers' names are to be sent at once to Wurster 

 and Co., Winterthur, Switzerland. 



PERSONAL NOTICES. 



The valuable and extensive herbarium of Composite formed by the late C. H. 

 Schultz-Bipontinus has been purchased by Dr. Cosson, of Paris. 



Mr. W. Thiselton Dyer, Professor of Natural History in the Cirencester 

 Agricultural College, has been appointed to the Chair of Botany in the College 

 of Science, Dublin. We are surprised to see that exception has been taken in a 

 scientific journal to this appointment, than which none more suitable could 

 have been made. 



Mr. James de Carle Sowerby, in consequence of advanced age, has resigned 

 the office of secretary to the Royal Botanic Society, and Mr. William Sowerby, 

 who has acted as assistant-secretary for many years, has been appointed to suc- 

 ceed him. Mr. Sowerby was one of the founders of the Society, and has been 

 secretary since 1839. Mr. Thomas Don has been appointed Superintendent of 

 the Society's gardens. 



