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Mr. J. E. Griffith has issued a Flora of Anr/lesey and Carnarvon,' 

 shire, in good time to be of service to botanists who may be taking 

 their autumn holiday in North Wales. It is printed and published 

 at Bangor, by Messrs. Nixon and Jarvis, who seem unaware of the 

 importance of dating a title-page. We hope to notice it at an early 

 opportunity. 



Some fifteen years ago the British Museum acquired Hampe's 

 fine collection of Hepatics, and by that timely addition to its 

 Herbarium pushed forward the value of the latter far along the 

 scale which lies between insignificance and perfection. But in the 

 subsequent lapse of time, in proportion as our knowledge of 

 the group has been rapidly extended by the researches of such 

 active hepaticologists as Spruce and Stephani, so has the scale to 

 be traversed been expanded and the perfection-point been raised ; 

 and hence the Museum has felt called upon to make a corresponding 

 advance. Arrangements have been made with Herr Franz Stephani 

 for the purchase of half his herbarium — of half, that is to say, of all 

 his specimens which will bear splitting. These amount to some 

 10,000, and include 1100 of his new species. The first instalment 

 has been received, and consists of the genera Frullania, Mastigo- 

 bryiim, and Plagiochila. 



Messrs. J. C. Willis and I. H. Burkill publish in the Annals 

 of Botany for June the first part of an interesting paper on "Flowers 

 and Insects in Great Britain." Mr. Batters contributes to the same 

 number a paper on new British Algge, in which he further charac- 

 terizes his genera Buffhamia and Tellamia, and publishes a new 

 genus, Hymenodonium . The plant described and figured by Mr. 

 Bufl:"ham in this Journal for 1891 (p. 321, t. 314) as a form of 

 Myriotrichia clavaformis is described as a new species by Mr. Batters 

 under the name M. densa. 



Dr. Hugh Francis Clarke Cleghorn, whose death took place at 

 Strathbithie, Fife, on the 19th of May, was born at Madras. He 

 graduated at Edinburgh, and became a Fellow of the Botanical 

 Society of that city in 1837, shortly after its foundation. After 

 this he returned to Madras, directing his attention more especially 

 to medical botany. In 1854 he was appointed Professor of Botany 

 in the Madras University, and took a leading part in the establish- 

 ment of the India Forest Department, with the work of which he 

 was for many years intimately associated. In 1869 he returned to 

 Scotland, and was for a short time Professor of Botany at Glasgow; 

 he retained his interest in botany till the end of his life. Cleghorn's 

 principal work was a book on The Forests and Gardens of South 

 India, published in London in 1861. He was also author of 

 numerous Indian forest reports, and of a large number of papers 

 chiefly dealing with economic plants, and published for the most 

 part in the Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. In 

 1853 he published a Catalogue of the plants in the Agri-Horti- 

 cultural Society's Gardens at Madras, and in 1856, also at Madi-as, 

 a general index to Wight's Icones. Ho joined the Linnean Society 

 in 1851. The genus Cleyhornia, named in his honour by Wight 

 [Icones, 1810), is now merged in Baissea, 



