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1000 species, collected bj well-known biyologists. The price asked 

 is £100. Particulars ma}^ be had from the General Secretary, 

 Dr. Hans Neumayer (Wien, III./3, Mechelgasse 2). 



Among the series of picture-cards issued by the Trustees for sale 

 at the Natural History Museum, are three sets illustrating exhibits 

 in the Botanical Glaller}^. " Remarkable Plant Structures " (5 cards) 

 depicts five of the more striking exhibits, such as the Vegetable 

 Sheep, the Mass of Diatoms from Australia, a *' Witches Broom " 

 and others ; " Germination of Wheat " (5 cards) reproduces a 

 beautiful series of models ; and " Dispersal of Fruits and Seeds " 

 (20 cards), represents a selection from the exhibit dealing with this 

 subject. The reproductions are by photography and, especially the 

 series on '* Germination " and " Dispersal," should be useful to school- 

 teachers and students of botany. The cost is sixpence each for the 

 two sets of five which are in monotone and half-a-crown for the 

 larger set, five of which are in colour. Cards may also be bought 

 singly. 



Mycologia, xiv. no. 3, contains *' Reliquiae Farlowianse " by 

 R. Thaxter, " New or Noteworthy Rusts on Carduaceae " by H. S. 

 Jackson, " Dark-spored Agarics (Go)npJiidius smd Sfrophat'ia) '^ hj 

 W. A. Murrill, and " The Method of Cleavage in the Sporangia of 

 certain Fungi " b}^ C. A. Schwarze. 



The Journal of Indian Botany for May contains " Notes on 

 Indian Plant Teratology," by F. Hallberg ; a continuation of P. F. 

 Fyson's monograph of Indian Eriocaulons, with plates ; and notes on 

 Bengal Polyporacecd, h\ S. R. Bose. 



The recently issued part of the Flore gene rale de VIndo-Chine 

 (t. vii. fasc. 3) contains the concluding portion of the Cyperacece^ by 

 E. G. Camus, and the first instalment of the Gramineae, % M. Camus 

 and his daughter. 



The New Phytologist (xxi. no. 3 ; June 1) contains a continu- 

 ation of Walter Stiles's papers on " Permeability " and of the 

 " Physiological Studies in Plant Anatomy " by J. H. Priestley and 

 Editii E. North. 



Messrs. Gurney and Jackson have published a new edition (the 

 tenth) of Babington's Manual, *' with emended nomenclature and an 

 Appendix by A. J. Wilmott," of which a notice will appear iu due 

 course. 



The Botanical Magazine of Tokyo for March contains a paper 

 on new Japanese Violets by Takenoshiu Nakai, in which nineteen 

 new species are described. 



To the already long list of those whose loss we have recently had 

 to deplore must be added the name of Dr. William Carruthers, who 

 died at Norwood on June 2, in his 93rd year. A notice will follow 

 in due course. 



