336 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANT 



Manchester Museum Publication (no. 84) is devoted to notes 

 on a collection of Hepatics from the Cameroons, by Mr. W. H. 

 Pearson. 



We learn from Science Progress (October) that an Indian 

 Botanical Society has been formed, of which Shiv Ham Kashyap, 

 M.Sc, of the Government College, Lahore, is the Secretary-Treasurer. 

 It is not the present intention of the executive to start any publica- 

 tion, but one of the most useful activities contemplated is the 

 establishment of a central exchange for botanical literature and for 

 aiding botanists generally. The promotion of resea'reh and the 

 establishment of one or more biological institutes are also part of the 

 official programme. Among the contents of the number are papers 

 by J. S. Huxley on " Some Implications of the Chromosome Theory 

 of Heredity " and by H. Reinheimer on " Symbiosis and the Biologv 

 of Food." 



The Essex Naturalist (xix. pt. 5 : April-Sept.) contains a very 

 complete summary of " Ten Years' Progress in Lichenology in the 

 British Isles " — the address of the President of the Essex Field Club, 

 Mr. Robert Paulson, delivered at the Annual Meeting on April 2; 

 due notice is taken of Dr. A. H. Church's papers lately published in 

 this Journal, and the paper is illustrated by four plates. Under the 

 title " A MS. Essex Florula " Mr. Boulger gives an account of 

 a MS. Flora of Dedham (probably written in 1837) by W. H. Cole- 

 man (1816 P-1863), one of the authors of the Flora Hertford/ ens is 

 (1843), which has recently been found and will be deposited in the 

 Department of Botany, British Museum. 



From the Daily Mail — " Alpine Flowers for Snowdon. A 

 large tract of land on the Llanberis, Carnarvonshire, side of Mount 

 Snowdon has been planted Avith alpine plants and seeds taken from 

 alpine flowers in Kew Gardens. The Director of Kew, Sir David 

 Prain, with Mr. Walter Irving, a Kew alpine expert, and Mr. T. R. 

 Bulley, recently visited the spot and spent a week-end on the 

 planting. ' The experiment,' said Mr. Bulley, ' is to be continued 

 every year until the greater part of Snowdon is covered with Alpine 

 flowers. It is to be hoped that tourists will help us by not tamper- 

 ing with them.' Chinese rhododendrons are to be planted on the 

 slopes of Snowdon next spring." 



We take the following from the Evening Netvs of Sept. 15 : we 

 have not ourselves seen the notice referred to : — 



"Our Erudite Costers. 



" The Middlesex County Council has posted notices outside police 

 stations warning costermongers and vendors of plants that after 

 October 1 it will be an offence to sell plants or roots attacked by 

 these diseases or others specified : — 



" Eriosoma lanigerum Hausm. 



" Nygmia Phoeorrhoea Dan Euproctis chryssorrhoea. 



" Leptobyrsa Stephanitis rhododendri Horv. 



" Sphoerctheca morsuvae. 



" Synchytrium endobioticum." 



