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" Sperganum," " palustra," and misplaced capitals: he would also 

 have instructed the author in the art of making references. We 

 are indebted to Mr. Bennett for some notes on the work, which 

 we hope to print in an early number. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



Joseph Eeynolds Green, who died at Cambridge on June 3, 

 was born at Stowmarket, Sufl'olk, on December 3, 1848. He 

 went to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1878, having previously 

 taken his B.Sc. at London University ; he graduated as M.A. in 



1888 and took his D.Sc. in 1891, and was elected a Scholar of his 

 college. After taking this latter degree he worked in Michael 

 Foster's laboratory on the enzymes contained in the seeds of 

 plants ; he then undertook researches on fermentation, and in 

 1899 published a book on Soluble Ferments. In 1887 he became 

 Px'ofessor of Botany to the Pharmaceutical Society, an office 

 which he held for twenty years, and was Hartley Lecturer on 

 Vegetable Physiology in Liverpool University. In 1892 he was 

 elected Fellow of Downing College, and in the same year was 

 president of the botanical section of the British Association, at 

 whose meetings he was a constant attendant. In 1895 he pub- 

 lished a Manual of Botany, in two volumes, and in 1905 an 

 excellent Introduction to Vegetable Physiology ; in 1909 appeared 

 his continuation of Sachs's History of Botany, dealing with the 

 period 1860 — 1900. x\t the time of his death he had completed 

 a work on the History of Botany in England, which will probably 

 be published. He became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 



1889 and was elected F.E.S. in 1895. 



The Journal of Genetics for June (vol. iv. part 1) contains a 

 long paper by G. H. Skull, of the Carnegie Institution of 

 Washington, on " A Peculiar Negative Correlation in CEnothera 

 Hybrids." As a result of his experiments the author criticizes 

 somewhat severely some of the conclusions arrived at by Dr. 

 R. B. Gates in his papers on the genus published in the Linnean 

 Transactions and elsewhere ; the paper is illustrated by two 

 plates. M. Wheldale and J. & LI. Bassett write " On a Sup- 

 posed Synthesis of Anthocyanin " ; N. I. Varilov, of the 

 Agricultural Higher School of Moscow, has a paper on " Immu- 

 nity to Fungus Diseases as a Physiological Test in Genetics and 

 Systematics, exemplified in Cereals," more especially in wheat 

 and oats ; and H. M. Leake, Economic Botanist to the Indian 

 Government, has a preliminary note " On the Factors controlling 

 the Ginning per cent, of Indian Cottons." 



To the meeting of the Linnean Society on June 4 Professor 

 H. H. W. Pearson contributed a paper, " Notes on the Mor- 

 phology of certain Structures concerned in Reproduction in 

 Gnetuvi" — an investigation of (1) androgynous and pseudo- 

 androgynous spikes of Gnetum Gnemon ; (2) the young embryo sac 

 of G. africanum. The spike which bears the male flowers occa- 



