280 THE JOURNAL OF 150TANY 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, etc. 



In July, 1889, we gave in these pages (Journ. Bot. 1889, 

 193-198) some account of H. G. Eeichenbach, whose deatli 

 had occurred on the preceding 6th of May, in the course of which 

 we quoted from his will the passage in which, while bequeathing 

 his herbarium and library to the Imperial Hof Museum at 

 Vienna, he added the condition that it should not be consulted 

 until twenty-five years after his death. That period has now 

 elapsed, and on 16th of last May the sealed cases which contained 

 the specimens were opened under official inspection. A note by 

 Dr. Zahlbriickner, Keeper of the Museum, pul)lished in the OrcJiul 

 Bevieio for July, states that the contents were found in excellent 

 condition, and that the specimens will probably be available for 

 consultation by the end of the year. 



The Kew Bulletin (no. 6) announces the retirement from the 

 Kew Herbarium of Mr. N. E. Brown, after forty years' service, 

 he having reached the age limit. Mr. W. B. Hemsley pays a 

 well-earned tribute to the value of Mr. Brown's work, both 

 published and in the Herbarium, which " contains lasting and 

 invaluable evidence of his industry with pen and pencil." 



In view of what was reported (p. 24) respecting the herbarium 

 of the late Dr. H. Franklin Parsons, it may be well to put on 

 record that the whole of his natural history collection (including 

 the herbarium) will be accessible to the public at the Grangewood 

 Museum, Croydon. The collections contain valuable fossils, and 

 a good local herbarium of flowering plants, ferns, mosses, liver- 

 worts, lichens, and fungi. 



The recent issue (parts x-xii) of Tlie Essex Naturalist, pub- 

 lished in August, contains papers on the " Coast-Flora of the 

 Clacton District," by Mr. F. Saxer, and on " Autumn Botany at 

 Clacton," by Mr. C, E. Britton ; Miss Lister enumerates the 

 Mycetozoa found during the Cryptogamic forays in Epping 

 Forest ; and Mr. S. H. Warren gives a list of seeds found 

 during the opening of the Eomano-British barrow on Mersea 

 Island. 



The part of vol. xxxv. of the Proceedings of the Dorset Natural 

 History Society lately issued contains the first portion of " A 

 Tentative Account of the Fungi of East Dorset " by the Eev. 

 E. F. Linton. The fungi of Dorset have hitherto been almost 

 entirely neglected, so that this is a valuable contribution to our 

 knowledge of the botany of the county. The present instalment 

 extends to forty pages ; the completing portion will appear in 

 next year's volume of the Proceedings. 



The most recent (July) part of the botanical Transactions 

 of the Linnean Society contains " An Anatomical Study of the 

 Palaeozoic Cone-genus Le^ndostrohus," with seven plates, by Dr. 

 Agnes Arber. 



