96 THE JOURNAL OF BUT AX Y 



collection may be gathered from the fact that the Catalogue contains 

 2245 numbers, mostly hybrids of their own raising. 



SiE John Kirk, who died last month at his residence at Seven- 

 oaks in his ninetieth year, Avas born at Barry, near Arbroath, on 

 Dec. 19, 1832, and graduated M.D. at Edinburgh. In 1856, when 

 stationed at Kenkioi on the Dardanelles, he made the ascent of 

 Mount Ida and discovered a new Muscari (M. latifolium). From 

 1858-64 he was attached as naturalist and medical officer to the 

 Livingstone Expedition ; during this time he sent to Kew large 

 collections, accompanied by notes and drawings from Zambesi, Lake 

 Nvasa, and the adjacent country. From 1866 to 1886 Kirk was at 

 Zanzibar, where he held numerous im^^ortant positions, ending as 

 Consul-general ; in 1895 he was special Commissioner on the Niger 

 coast. Kirk is commemorated by Oliver in KirJda (Simarubacea?) 

 and by Harms in Kirkopliytum (Araliacese). 



The third volume of C. A. J. A. Oudemans' Emimeratlo Sysfe- 

 mntica Fungorum (M. Nijhoff, The Hague) is to hand. The families 

 treated in this portion of the " host index " inckule Car^'ophyllaceaj 

 to Vitaceae. The list of families and the largest genera are given in 

 a short " Tabula argumentorum " ; a " Tabula alphabetica abbrevia- 

 tionum," gives a continuation of, and supplement to (2441-2653), the 

 list of authors, titles, references, and exsiccata of the previous 

 volumes, which were noticed in this Journal for 1921 (p. 117). The 

 present volume contains rather more than 1800 pages ; the price is 

 £4 Os. Qd.—i. K. 



At the meeting of the British Mj^cological Society, held at 

 University College, London, on Jan. 21st, Mr. F. T. Brooks, Presi- 

 dent, in the chair, the following papers were read : — " The Mor- 

 phology and Affinities of Leucouostoc mesenteroides''' by Mr. W. B. 

 Crow ; " Obligate Symbiosis in Calluna " — a criticism of H. Chris- 

 toph's negative results — by Dr. M. C. Eajaier ; "Die-back of Stone- 

 fruits due to Diafortlie perniciosa and the Behaviour of Monospore 

 Cultures in Artificial Media," by Miss D. M. Cayley ; " The Influence 

 of Volatile Substances on Spore Oermination," by Dr. W. Brown ; and 

 " Michaelmas Daisy Wilt," by Mr. W. J. Dowson : the last is pub- 

 lished in the Gardeners Chronicle for Feb. 11. 



By the lapse of time Kew is losing some of the older members of 

 its staff. Sir David Brain's directorate ceased on the 28th of last 

 month; he is succeeded by Captain A. W. Hill, who has been 

 Assistant Director for fourteen 3^ears. Dr. Stapf, Keeper of the 

 Herbarium and Library, and Mr. William Watson, Curator of the 

 Gardens, are also on the eve of retirement. 



We note that Mr. E. M. Holmes, who was knocked down by a 

 motor car some months ago and had to have a leg amputated, was on 

 Jan. 31 awarded £1000 damages in the King's Bench Division. 



We regret to announce the death of the Rev. E. Adrian WoodrufFe 

 Peacock, which occurred at Grayingham Bectory, Lincolnshire, on 

 Feb. 3. A fuller notice wdll follow later. 



