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of rliOLlodeiidron alone from one explorer (Forrest), and many 

 entirely new genera of plants, is some indication of the monumental 

 task dealt with of late years at the Edinburgh Botanic Garden. In 

 retiring from the post of Regius Keeper, Sir I. Balfour also relin- 

 quishes the office of King's Botanist for Scotland and the Chair of 

 Botany in the University of Edinburgh, to both of which he was 

 appointed in the same year." 



The Kew Bullet in (1922, no. 1) contains an account of the 

 effects of last year's drought on the lawns and gardens of Kew; 

 Miss D. K. Hughes contributes " Further Notes on the Australian 

 Species of Stipa,'" with descriptions and hgures of two new species ; 

 there is a Decade of New Orchids, left by the late K. A. liolfe ; 

 and another instalment of " Diagnoses Africame " — we notice that 

 Dr. Stapf has " adopted Endlicher's spelling of Acocaufhera in the 

 ])lace of the absurd and barbarous form found in G. Don's Generum 

 Systema \_l. e. his General Si/steni of Dichlamydeous Plants^, which 

 is evidently due to a printer's error : Don himself gives the deriva- 

 tion of the name as from atcuxii, acoce, a mucrone." 



The Board of Trade have issued an Order — ^the German Repara- 

 tion liecovery (No. 1) Order, 1922 — exempting certain German 

 scientific and other periodicals from the provisions of the German 

 Reparation (Recovery) Act, 1921. Any article is exempted "being 

 a publication in the German language which is proved to the satis- 

 faction of the Commissioners of Customs and Excise to be a periodical 

 publication of a German learned society, or other scientific or j^hilo- 

 sophical periodical publication." 



The Journal of Ecoloffi/ (2-1 Feb.) contains papers on "The 

 Woodlands of Ditcham Park, Hampshire (Studies on the Vegetation 

 of the English Chalk," by R. S. Adamson (6 plates) ; " Stratification 

 and Hydrogen-ion Concentration of the Soil in relation to Leaching 

 and Plant Succession, with special reference to Woodlands," by E. J. 

 Salisbury ; " A Suggestion as to Factors infiuencing the Distribution 

 of free floating Vegetation," by W. H. Pearsall ; " On the Mycor- 

 rhizas of Plnus silvestris and Plcea Ables,^^ hj Elias Melin. 



Me. William A. Lee contributes to the Irish Naturalist for 

 February a list of " Irish Sphagna " ; no separate list, named as this is, 

 on the Warnstorfian system, has hitherto been published. 



We note that the name of Dr. A. J. Ewart, of Melbourne, 

 appears in the list of those selected by the Council of the Royal 

 Society for election into that body. 



We have received from the Roval Horticultural Society the 

 Heport of the International Potato Conference held at the Society's 

 Hall in November last, of which we hope to give some account in an 

 early issue. 



The Rey. H. J. Riddelsdell is leavmg Wigginton for Bloxham, 

 Banbm-y. 



