22 TTTE .TOURN-AL OF EOTAXT 



the kindness of Dr. Dayrlon Jackson I am able to snpply. Dr. Jack- 

 son, in company with W. W. Reeves (1819-92), was taken to the 

 pond in the 3'ear (1874) in which Watson's record was published by 

 William Thomas Suffolk, who had introduced a single specimen of the 

 plant from his garden in South London. Later, owing to a dry season, 

 the water of the pond receded, and several more specimens were 

 introduced. Suffolk was a well-known microscopist, and Treasurer of 

 the lioyal Microscopical Society from 1893 till his death, which took 

 place on New Year's Day, 1900. Mr. C. E. Salmon — whose Flora 

 of Surrey, om- readers Avill like to know, is proceeding as rapidly 

 as the nature of the work will allow" — tells me that the plant still 

 occurs in the localit}", where, according to a note in this Journal for 

 1873 (p. 339), it was first planted in 18G1. — James Beitten. 



EEVIEWS. 



Cfq^faiii Blif/h's Second Voyar/e to the South Sea. By Ida Lee 

 (Mrs. Charles Bruce Marriott), F.R.G.S. With' Maps and 

 Illustrations. 8vo, cloth, pp. xvi, 290. London : Longmans. 

 Price 10s. 6d. net. 



The story of the Mutiny of the Bounty — the ship in Avhich 

 Captain William Bligh undertook his Voyage to the South Sea 

 (1787) with a view to the introduction of the Bread-fruit from 

 Otaheite to the West Indies — is Avell known ; first issued as an 

 independent narrative, and subsequently embodied in Bligh's account 

 of the voyage, it has been constantl}' reprinted in volumes of adven- 

 ture. The object of the voyage not having been obtained, a second 

 expedition (1791-3) on the Providence was undertaken with satis- 

 factory results ; and it is of this that the volume before us, based on 

 Bligh's log-books, gives us the first detailed account. The log-books 

 themselves, after a long period of disappearance, were recovered and 

 restored to the Admiralty Library, whence they had been lent to 

 the Great Exhibition of 1851 ; they have now been published by 

 Mrs. Charles Marriott, who had already undertaken similar work 

 with much success. 



The aim of the book, Mrs. Marriott tells us in her interesting 

 and well-written preface (which contains a summary" of the two 

 voyages), is " to show the part played by Bligh as a seaman and 

 a discoverer " ; and she has no difficulty in establishing his claim to 

 distinction in both capacities. The course of the voyage afforded 

 numerous opportunities for observation, and of these Bligh fully 

 availed himself ; this is especially evident in the chapters devoted to 

 Tahiti and Fiji — the latter group had been seen by him during his 

 former voyoge and had then been called Bligh's Islands. The value 

 of the records is much increased by the numerous and careful foot- 

 notes supplied b}'- Mrs. Marriott, which aj^pear throughout the 

 volume. 



