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September last, and whose collections, mainly from the neighbom-hoocl 

 of Chitral, have been bequeathed to the Kew Herbarium. 



As an example of the fictions which have grown up round the 

 Primrose League, of which we gave the authentic history in our March 

 issue (p. 89) the following from an anonymous work — Further Indis- 

 cretions — lately published, may be cited : " The way Primroses 

 became connected with Lord Beaconsfield was through Queen Victoria, 

 who had an admiration for him, sending him boxes of the little 

 flowers gathered from the slopes of Windsor Castle or from Osborne " 

 (p. 224). 



Mr. F. O. Moselt is publishing a work at Reading, Fungoid 

 and insect Pests and their Control, of which the first part (price Is.) 

 has reached us. Fungoid parasites and insect pests are described 

 promiscuously, and are illusti'ated more or less effectively by coloured 

 prints. With the serious threat of world-famine, it has become 

 tremendousl}'^ important to increase and conserve our food-plants : 

 by describing and depicting their common pests in a popular manner, 

 and by giving advice as to treatment, the author is rendering timely 

 assistance to growers. We are astonished to find that the work 

 is unpaged and the figures unnumbered : this of course seriously 

 hampers any future reference, and a final index will be impossible. — 

 A. L. S. 



The Journal of the Kew Guild for 19L8 has felt the stress of 

 the times and appears in a much diminished size. The obituary 

 notices, which form its most generally interesting feature, are mainly 

 concerned with Kewites who have fallen in the War ; they include' 

 a portrait of M. B. Scott, of whom a short account was given in 

 cm' last year's issue (p. 263). The nvmiber contains a biography, 

 with portrait, of Mr. James A. Gammie, the President of the Guild 

 for 1918. 



The Botanical Gazette for January contains a full and interest- 

 ing biography, accompanied by two portraits, of Dr. Charles 

 Horton Peck (1839-1917), from the pen of Prof. G. F. Atkinson, 

 of Cornell University. He was best known in connection with his 

 taxonomic studies and publications on fungi, in connection with 

 which he early became acquainted with M. C. Cooke, who colla- 

 borated with him in the description of numerous species published 

 jointly under their names. 



The most recent issue (vol. vi. no. 7) of the Records of the 

 Botanical Survey of India is devoted to a paper on the plants of 

 Northern Gujarat, in the Bombay Presidency, by Messrs. W. T. 

 Saxton and L. J. Sedgwick, considered in relation to the late Theodore 

 Cooke's Flora of the Presidency. Besides a list of the phanerogams, 

 of which 613 are enumerated, there is a section on the ecology of the 

 district — a novel feature in the Records — based on Warming's classifi- 

 cation : 95 per cent, of the flora are psammophytes and psilophytes, 

 the remainder being divided among hydrophytes, helophytes, halo- 

 phytes, lithoi^hytes, and mesophytes. The subdivisions of the groups 

 are carefully worked out, and the paper is a valuable contribution to 

 our knowledge of Indian ecology. 



