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Moreover, I have had to compile this Work in the time I could spare 

 from my regular duties in school, and so I am afraid thei-e may be 

 some errors in it : if I can make this work more perfect through the 

 kind help of critics, great will be my joy." The total number of species 

 enumerated (Embryoph3^ta and Pteridophyta) is 2904, with 161 

 introductions, arranged alphabetically under the orders, of Avhich a list 

 is given ; there are full indexes of Corean, Chinese, and Japanese 

 names, but none of the Latin genera : the text of the book is in 

 Corean, so we are unfortunately precluded from giving an opinion of it. 



The Annates du Jardin Botanique de Bititenzorg (vol. xxxii. 

 pt. 2) contains " Studies in Tropical Teratology," by J. C. Costerius 

 and J. J. Smith (with 12 plates) ; a paper on Lanomyces, a new 

 genus of Perisiyoriacece, by E. Gaumann (6 pl-)5 "Morphological 

 and Biological Notes on Bajfflesia flowers observed in the Highlands 

 of Mid-Sumatra," by P. H. Justensen (12 pi.); and "The Embryo- 

 sac of Vittadinia,'' by B. T. Palm. The Bulletin of the Garden for 

 April (iv. pt. 2) contains "In Memoriam Dr. K. Gorter " (with 

 portrait), by A. J. Ultee ; "Some Galls from Hongkong and Kra- 

 katau," i3y Dr. Van Leeuwen ; " Two new Malayan Fern Genem " 

 {Parasoriis and Grammatopteris), by Captain v. Alderwerelt v. 

 Kosenburgh (2 pi.), and on "New or noteworthy Malayan Aracece,'' 

 also b}^ the same author : the June issue contains " Mykologische 

 Mitteilungen," by E. Gaumann and a continuation of J. J. Smith's 

 " Orchidacece novae Malayenses " (mostly Dendrocliiliim). 



The Department of Botany has recently acquired an interesting 

 MS. volume written by Edward Pobson of Darlington (1763-1813), 

 whose name is known to British botanists in connexion with Rihes 

 spicatum^ which he described in Linn. Trans, iii. 240, and as a con- 

 tributor to English Botany, where he is described by Smith (t. 70) 

 as " a very assiduous and accurate botanist." The volume — a small 

 octavo of 237 pages with index — is described on its title-page as : 

 " Supplement to the British Flora ; or a Catalogue of the British 

 Plants (in the Linniiean System) with the Characters, Places of 

 Growth, &c., of the species not contained in that work. By Edward 

 Pobson. Darlington. 1790 " — the " British Flora " referred to is 

 that of his uncle, Stephen Kobson (1711-1779), published in 1777, 

 of which a copy, with corrections in the author's hand, was presented 

 to the Department at the same time. The title accurately describes 

 the contents of the volume ; more than half is occupied by the crypto- 

 gams, of some of which there are coloured figures. The books were 

 until lately in the possession of Mr. Joseph J. Green, of Hastings, a 

 great-nephew of the author, of whom in a prefatory note to the Supple- 

 ment he gives biographical details, tracing the passing of the volume 

 through the hands of various members of the famil3\ 



A SECOND edition of A Naturalisfs Calendar, based on obser- 

 vations made at Swaffham Bulbeck, Cambridgeshire, between 1820 

 and 1831, and later from 1815-49, by the Pev. Leonard Blomefield 

 (formerly Jenyns), edited by Sir Francis Darwin, has been published 

 by the Cambridge University Press (price 3*. Qd.). Not having seen 

 the fii-st edition, we do not know how this diffei's from it ; Sir Francis 



