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made on p. 212 of this Journal. We are not able to afford space 

 for a lengthy discussion of the matter, but must content ourselves 

 with sayiug that the special charge of suppression which has so 

 disturbed the psychological editor of Science was not made by us, 

 and that we therefore cannot withdraw it. Mr. Cattell asked us to 

 publish his contradiction, and we did so, printing at the same time 

 Mr. Erwin Smith's version of the matter. 



The fact that adverse criticism has been suppressed, even when 

 so eminent a man as Asa Gray was the critic, cannot be denied, nor 

 have we the faintest intention of withdrawing what we have said 

 regarding this discreditaltle business. Mr. Cattell will find this, 

 with the comments of Mrs. Gray and Sereno Watson, and Dr. 

 Britton's attempted justification of his action, in our Journal for 

 1894, p. 19. Seeing that Dr. Britton is the botanical editor of 

 Science, it seems strange that he should have left a matter con- 

 nected with botanical nomenclature to be dealt with by his psycho- 

 logical colleague. We may remark that, although copies of Science 

 containing Mr. Cattell's selection of extracts appear to have been 

 sown broadcast, none has readied the Editor of this Journal. This 

 accident^for we cannot suppose any discourtesy was intended — 

 is the more remarkable because no fewer than four copies have been 

 received by his colleagues in the Botanical Department. 



We are reminded that the annual Reports of the Botanical 

 Exchange Club have not lately been noticed in our pages. We are 

 sorry for this neglect, which has arisen from the fact that we were 

 anxious to give a more detailed notice of these reports than such as 

 is afforded by a paragraph, and the demands on our space have 

 rendered this almost impossible. We hope to notice the Report 

 for 1894, just to hand, in an early issue ; meanwhile we must 

 point out that our record of Sparttna stiicta as new to the Isle of 

 Wight (p. 315) was anticipated by the Rev. E. F. Linton in the 

 Exchange Club Report for 1893, p. 427. 



John Ellor Taylor, for more than twenty years Curator of the 

 Ipswich Museum, died at Ipswich on Sept. 28th. He was born in 

 1855 at Levenshulme, near Manchester, where his father was 

 foreman in a cotton factory. His scientific work was mainly 

 geological, but he was best known as a lecturer on scientific 

 subjects, which he treated in an attractive and popular manner. 

 He published in 1878 a book entitled Flowers, their Orii/in, Shapes, 

 Perfumes, and Colours, and in 1884 The SagKcity and Morality of 

 Plants, "a sketch of the life and conduct of the vegetable kingdom," 

 which is noticed in this Journal for the same year, p. 184 ; and 

 edited Science- Gossiji from 1872 to 1893. He was elected a Fellow 

 of the Linnean Society in 1873. 



We have to record the death of Prof. Willkomm, in his seventy- 

 fifth year, and of Dr. Robert Brown (Campst.), who died at Streatham 

 on Oct. 26th. We hope to give a further notice later. 



A BRONZE bust of Robert Brown was unveiled on the 18th of 

 October at Montrose, his native place. The ceremony was performed 

 by his kinswoman. Miss Baton, who has provided the bust and pre- 

 sented it to the town. A detailed account will appear in our next 

 number. 



