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gantly- produced third edition of Blanco's Flora by Fernandez- Villar 

 and Naves (1877-83) which " extends through three bulky and 

 unwieldy folio volumes without adding a single item to our know- 

 ledge of the Philippine flora " : of the three pai'ts forming the fourth 

 volume, "the third, forming the Novissima Appendix, is the only 

 one of real value." Differing, as we have seen, from J. D. Hooker's 

 view as to Blanco's species, Mr. Merrill has " devoted time to their 

 identification," with the result that of Blanco's "686 new binomials 

 and trmomials, approximately 195 supply the valid specific names 

 for the various species under the International Code of Botanical 

 Nomenclature " : these names Mr. Merrill has adopted. 



We regret that space will not allow us to dwell further on this 

 interesting volume : Mr. Merrill has done much excellent work 

 in describing the novelties of the Philippines, but none more useful 

 than that of which the volumes now noticed are the outcome. 

 Now that the War is over, will he not visit these shores and give 

 us a similar account of the work of George Camel (1661-1706), 

 whose drawings and specimens are among the treasm-es of the Depart- 

 ment of Botany ? 



James Britten. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, etc. 



The many claims to notice of Sir Edward Fry, whose long and 

 honourable career was closed, within about a fortnight of his 91st 

 year, at his residence, Failand near Bristol, on the 18th of October, 

 have been sufficiently recognized elsewhere, but some record must be 

 made of his botanical work. Whether the statement that, on his 

 retirement from the Bench in 1892, Sir Edward announced his 

 intention of devoting himself to British Mosses be accurate, we are 

 not in a position to say ; the subject however had already engaged 

 his attention, and a lecture delivered by him before the Koyal Insti- 

 tution in 1891 was subsequently^ printed in Knoioledge and reissued 

 in book-form in 1892. A second and revised edition, with new 

 illustrations, was published in 1908 ; it contains an indication that he 

 was preparing a volume on the Hepaticie, which appeared in 1911 

 under the title The Liverworfs, British a fid Foo'eirjn ; of this a notice 

 ^vill be found in this Journal for 1911 (p. 175). "Herein he was helped 

 by one of his daughters, who also assisted him in the little volume on 

 The Mycetozoa and some Questions which they suggest, published in 

 1889, of which a critical review appears in Journ. Bot. 1900, p. 45. 

 In connection with this subject, in which he took great interest. 

 Sir Edward wrote his sole contribution to this Journal (1912, p. 133) — 

 a review of the second edition of Lister's Monograph of the Myceto- 

 zoa. Sir Edward became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1887 : 

 he was the brother of David Fry (1834-1912) who paid much atten- 

 tion to British plants, and of whom there is a notice in our volume 

 for the latter jear (p. 239). 



