lf)8 BOTANICAL NEWS. 



volume on ' Trees and Shrubs for English Plantations,' with numerous illus- 

 trations. 



For want of room we must to-day confine ourselves to congratulating Mr. 

 W. Robinson on his ' Alpine Flowers for English Gardens ' (Murray), and 

 their illustrations, but we shall have much pleasure in reverting to the volume 

 on a future occasion. 



PERSONAL NOTICES. 

 • The ' Times' states that Dr. Sclienk, Professor of Botany at Leipzig, has been 

 converted to Protestantism. 



The reported death of the Abyssinian traveller, W. Schimper, turns out to 

 be untrue. Professor Alexander Braun, of Berlin, has just had a letter from 

 Schimper himself, dated Jan. 15, 1870, in which he speaks of being fully occu- 

 pied with literary and geographical work. 



Died, on the 22nd of March, Dr. Max. Ferdinand Kummer, keeper of the 

 herbarium and botanic gardens at Munich. We have a few descriptive papers 

 from his pen. 



The Conversazione of Mr. Bentham, as President of the Linnean Society, 

 came off Avith great eclat. The handsome rooms of Burlington House were 

 set off to great advantage, by the collection of rare and beautiful plants which 

 the Royal Gai'dens at Kew, and the nurseries of Messrs. Veitch and Bull have 

 liberally supplied. It was a select flower show. Mr. Wilson Saunders had 

 sent a curious collection, illustrating what has been called "Mimicry " {Vide. 

 Journ. of Bot. 1868, p. 213, seq), and by Mr. Leo Grindon, 'Echoes of Plant 

 Life.' There were besides drawings, microscopes, curious fruits (from Kew), 

 and other objects of interest. Among the guests were many of the most dis- 

 tinguished men of science and literature. 



Notices to Coeeespondents. — Those subscribers who have not yet paid 

 their subscriptions are requested to do so at once to the publishers, Messrs. 

 Taylor and Co. 



Communications have been received from — Professor Thiselton-Dyer, Dr. 

 Braithwaite, James Britten, J. Sadler, Robert Tucker, Hon., J. L. Warren, J. 

 Robinson, James Collins, M. C. Cooke. 



Books, etc.. Received. — Miquel's Contributions to Flora of Japan and 

 Contributions to the Knowledge of the Cycadece. — Popular Science Review and 

 Science Gossip for April. — Gardener's Chronicle, Nos. 14-17. — Nature, Nos. 

 22-25.— Alpine Flowers for English Gardens. By W. Robinson, F.L.S. 

 (Murray). — Trees and Shrubs for English Plantations. By Augustus Mon- 

 gredieu (Murray). — Sketches of Modern Paris. By-A. Ebeling (Bentley). — 

 Gardeners' Monthly. Edited by Thomas Meehan, Jan.-April. — W. Bull's 

 Catalogue of New, etc. Plants. 



COEEIGENDA.— P. 83, 1. 19, for " R. Syn." read " R. Syn. i." ; p. 92, 1. 13, 

 for " Bratihwaite" read "Braithwaite." 



