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was in constant and r(!ij;nlar correspondence with Sir Joseph Hooker. 

 Sir Jose})h's letters were presented by Duthie to tlie Kew Herbarium 

 Library' : many are quoted or referred to in the ' Life ' of Sir Jose]:>h, 

 and show liow much the writer appreciated Duthie's work and the 

 warm regard he always felt for him. 



Duthie was a slow worker and very cautious, so that he was often 

 unable quickly to make up his mind on systematic questions, but he 

 alwa3^s came to a decision in the end and the result was the more 

 valuable in consequence. He was always extremely anxious to avoid 

 inaccuracy, and used to polish up his work and descriptions over and 

 over again. The most unassuming of men, he never put himself 

 forward in the least, leaving it to his friends to estimate the value of 

 what he did. He was a delightful travelling companion and an 

 excellent climber, and many Indian forest officers and other friends 

 will long remember the kindly good-natured botanist who accompanied 

 them on their marches over the plains or mountains of Western 

 India. 



[For the greater part of the foregoing memoir, which will appear 

 in extended form in the Kew Bulletin, we are indebted to the kind- 

 ness of the writer, Mr. J. S. Gamble. — Ed. Jourx. Bot.] 



REVIEW. 



Fiuigi: Ascomycetes, Ustilaginales, Uredinales. B}" Dame Hele]N" 

 Gwin^^e-Vaugkax (formerly H. C. L. Feaser), D.B.E., LL.D., 

 D.Sc, F.L.S., Professor of Botany in the University of London. 

 (Cambridge Botanical Handbooks.) Demy 8vo, cloth, pp. xi + 

 232, with 196 figures in text. Price £1 15s. net. Cambridge 

 University Press. 



Whex taking up the study of Fungi a student soon learns of 

 s^^stematic works in his own or other languages which will take him 

 all, or almost all, the distance he wishes to go. From the plant 

 disease standpoint there are also many books, good and otherwise, 

 which give him a mass of information concerning plant pathology. 

 When, however, a student in the university sense of the term wishes 

 to supplement the type of lecture it has been customary to give 

 during the comparatively short period that Fungi have been regarded 

 as worthy of consideration, he has been compelled to read original 

 papers, supplemented by de Bary's classical Comparative Morpliolociy 

 of the Fungi, Mgcetoza and Ba-cteria (1887), or Massee's verV 

 inferior Text-hook of Fungi (190(3). Few mycologists, even, are 

 aware of the tremendous ramitications of their subject; most of us 

 work in somewhat watertight compartments, and are aj^parently 

 unable to realise the inter-relations revealed by advances in the 

 various branches. It rests, therefore, with university lecturers so to 

 train students that when they are academicall}^ qualitied to beo-in 

 research work on Fungi they should have sufficient knowledge of the 

 intricacies of their subject to assume a philosophical attitude towards 

 it as a whole. It is mainly to supply the needs of university students 



