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Soho Square, took up his position at Upsala as successor to Linnaeus. 

 From this time till his death in 1828 the long series of books, memoirs 

 and papers — Mr. Juel mentions close on two hundred — standing to 

 his credit is an eloquent testimony to the services he rendered to 

 science. 



Mr. Juel finds that of seventy-four genera proposed by Thunberg 

 forty still remain valid — not very encouraging, this, to adventurers 

 in the same field ! Many of the proposed species have also naturally 

 been " sunk," as can be seen by consulting the main portion of the 

 book, in which the contents of Thunberg's herbarium are presented 

 in detail, with their modern names attached — ^a laborious piece of 

 work reaching to close upon four hundred pages. In this the author 

 has played with zeal and devotion the role of vates sacer to one of 

 the greatest botanists his country has produced. 



S. M. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, etc. 



William Frederick Miller, the only son of William Miller, 

 whose beautiful line engravings, especially those after Turner, are so 

 well known, was born in Edinburgh on September 18, 1834. He 

 was educated at the High School and for a time worked with his 

 father for a few years ; afterwards he went to London, and was for 

 many years manager to Edmund Evans, the engraver and colour- 

 printer who reproduced so much of Caldecott's and Kate Greena way's 

 work. In 1873 he married and settled at Addiscombe, where he 

 took up botany, his friends being Messrs. Arthur Bennett and 

 H. T. Mennell. His summer holida3's were spent in Scotland ; the 

 results of his rambles, in the course of which he found Carex poly- 

 gama {Buxbaumii) at Arisaig, its only known station in Britain, 

 were communicated by him to this Jom*nal for 1886 (p. 308), 1890 

 (p. 23), 1895 (p. 345), and 1899 (p. 361) ; other notes— the first in 

 1882, the last in 1910 — appeared in these pages from time to time. 

 In 1890 he retired from business and settled at Winscombe, Somerset, 

 ■whence he sent notes on Somerset plants, the most interesting being 

 that of the rediscovery of Vaccinium Oxycocciis (Journ. Bot. 1896, 

 319). In 1904 Miller had a serious accident, from which he never 

 entirely recovered, but his interest in Botany and other subjects 

 remained till the end, which came on April 28th. He gave his 

 British herbarium to the well-known school of the Society of Friends 

 (of which he was a member) at Sidcot, Somerset. 



William Black Boyd, who died at his residence, Faldonside, Mel- 

 rose, on March 16, in his eighty-eighth year, was one of the best-known 

 Scottish amateur gardeners. " For many years," says The Garden oi 

 March 30, " he had taken a deep interest in alpines, and his collection 

 was one of the finest in the kingdom, embracing many rare plants, 

 old and new, and all cultivated with great assiduity and general 

 success. Saxifrages were among his favourites, and his memory will 

 bo upheld by his association with [the hybrid] Saxifraga Boj/dii and 

 its allies Snowdrops attracted much of his notice, and he did 



