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"With the concluding part of volume 30 the Linnean Society ter- 

 minates the first series of its Transactions. In future the Zoology and 

 Botany will form separate volumes, and one part of each has recently 

 been published. The first part of vol. 1 of the second series (Botany) 

 consists of two memoirs by our veteran botanist Mr. Miers, one "On 

 Napoleona, Omphalocarpum, and Asferantko.'i,^^ with four plates ; the 

 other *' On the Auxemmece, a tribe of the Cordiacece,^^ also with four 

 plates. We are glad to hear that an index to the five concluding 

 volumes of the first series is in a forward state of preparation, the work 

 of Mr. Bentham, to whom the Society is already so greatly indebted, 

 and who compiled the excellent Index to the first twenty-five volumes. 



The Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition in East Africa is 

 now completed by the recent issue of the 3rd part of vol. 29 of the 

 Linnean Society's " Transactions." The whole of this volume is 

 occupied with the enumeration of the plants collected by Col. Grant on 

 the celebrated journey from Zanzibar to Egypt, and by his liberality 

 is enriched by no less than 136 plates of the more interesting species. 

 He did not collect as a botanist, and of the 702 species brought home as 

 many as 77 were not able to be speciiically determined; of the remain- 

 ing 625 no less than 113 are new, two being types of new genera ; one 

 Porphyrodemma (Compositae), and the other if<?r^<?r^^if<?(Asclepiadeae), 

 named after Mrs. Grant. The Dicotyledons and Glumiferous Mono- 

 cotyledons have been determined by Professor Oliver, the Petaloid 

 Monocotyledons and Ferns by Mr. Baker. Col. Grant gives notes on 

 the economic and medical uses, and a general introduction. The 

 whole must be regarded as a very important and magnificent con- 

 tribution to African Botany. 



As an appendix (dated May, 1875) to the Annual Report and 

 Proceedings for 1873-74, of the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club, Mr. 

 S. A. Stewart gives a list of the mosses of the north-east of Ireland 

 {i.e., the counties of Down and Antrim and small adjacent portion of 

 Derry). He enumerates 238 species, and gives a full list of localities 

 to each. 



An excellent resume of the present state of knowledge of the 

 sexual reproduction of the Thallophytes, with especial reference to 

 Sachs' recently proposed classification, will be found in the *' Quarterly 

 Journal of Microsc. Science " for last July ; the author being Prof. 

 Thiselton-Dyer. 



Fasc. 66 of the *' Flora Brasiliensis " contains the Artstolochiacecej 

 by Dr. Masters. Fasc. 67 comprehends the VochysiacecB by Warming, 

 the Callitrichace(B by Hegelmaier, and the Onagracem by Micheli. 



The Athenceum states that Messrs. Macmillan are about to 

 republish the various botanical and pharmacological papers of the late 

 Daniel Hanbury, in one volume, with a short biographical account 

 by Mr. Joseph Ince. 



A new illustrated work on Fungi, consisting of coloured figures, 

 with descriptions, is about to be commenced by Mr. M. C. Cooke. 

 It will be published in parts, each containing eighty species ; im- 

 perial octavo. Part 1, containing Geoglossum and Peziza {Ilumaria), is 

 nearly ready (price 12 shillings) ; and can be obtained, as soon as 

 issued, from the author, 2, Grosvenor Villas, Junction Road, N. 



