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are not included, but a conspectus or clavis of genera under each order 

 and of species under each genus is given, sufficient for rough determi- 

 nation. This first part, of more than 100 pages, gets down to the end 

 of Geraniacem. 



We have received from the " Recorder," F. A. Lees, the Report 

 for 1873 of the Botanical Locality Record Club, the first issued. 

 "We are glad to observe that what was at first a main object of the 

 club, the verification and re-record of old stations for rarities, has 

 been supplanted by the more useful one of adding to the comital re- 

 cords in '' Topographical Botany," to which work it is intended that 

 a part of the Report shall form an uniform annual addendum ; fifty- 

 seven such additions are recorded in this Report. The remaining pages 

 are occupied with a general list of selected localities (by no means 

 all original), extinctions and re-appearances and the occurrence of 

 casuals ; specimens of all the plants recorded are preserved by the 

 Curator. We understand that the Hertfordshire locality for Carex 

 Boenninghmiseyiiana is erroneous. As there are two botanists named 

 Lees, it would be well if the author of the Report gave his initials 

 when vouching for localities. The Report is dated iS'ovember 15 ; 

 it is hoped in future years to publish it not later than May 1. 



The concluding number (16th) containing the Grasses and Ferns, 

 of Mr. T. B. Flower's ''Flora of Wiltshire," has reached us. We hope 

 it will be found practicable to republish the whole Flora in a single 

 volume. 



A catalogue of plants collected in Warwickshire in 1873, com- 

 piled chiefly by Dr. R. Baker and Rev. T. R. Young, has been pub- 

 lished by the Warwickshire Natural History and Archaeological 

 iSociety. 



We understand that the Rev. M. J. Berkeley is engaged in the 

 preparation of a work which will include the extra-European Hymeno- 

 mycetal Fungi, and thus supplement the ** Epicrisis " of Prof. 

 Fries. 



The death is announced of Count HippolyteFranQoisJaubert, at the 

 age of 76. Besides his botanical celebrity he had led a distinguished 

 life as a public man. An Orleanist in politics he held the post of Minister 

 of Public Works under M. Thiers' Government, and at the time of his 

 death was deputy for the department of the Cher. During the late 

 war he had the misfortune to lose his son, the Mayor of Coulonge ; 

 and allowed his resentment against Germany to go so far as to cause 

 him to request that his name should be removed from the list of the 

 Imperial Academy Naturae Curiosorum and the Regensburg Botanical 

 Society. He was one of the founders of the Botanical Society of 

 France and formerly its president, he was also a member of the In- 

 stitute. His most important botanical publication is the *' Illustra- 

 tiones Plantarum Orientaiium," undertaken in conjunction with M. 

 Spach. This great work was issued in five folio volumes, each con- 

 taining 100 plates, from 1842—1857. Count Jaubert was also the 

 author of numerous articles on systematic botany in the Annales des 

 Sc. Nat., and the Bulletin of the French Botanical Society. His 

 loss will be greatly felt by French science. 



