320 BOTANICAL NEWS. 



Prof. Kegel has printed a 3rd fascicle of his '* Descriptiones plant, 

 nov. et minus cognit.", Besides many novelties from the St. 

 Petersburg gardens, there is a conspectus of the Russian species of 

 Gagea, 17 in number, two being new. Kaufmannia is a new genus 

 from Turkestan. 



Recent numbers of this " Journal of Horticulture " have con- 

 tained a series of short biographies on the old botanists and gardeners. 

 Five or six have appeared. The notices of Gerrade and of Parkinson 

 are very well done and from original sources, several matters connected 

 with these authors, including the precise dates of their burials from 

 the parish records, being now first published. 



The new issue of Sowerby and Johnson's " British Wild Plo wars " 

 has now reached to the end of the Dicotyledonous families. It will 

 form a very portable guide to the British Flora, the figures, though 

 small, being sufficient to enable anyone to recognise the species. 



The Lewes and East Sussex Natural History Society intend to 

 publish a Fauna and Flora of East Sussex. A circular giving the boun- 

 daries of the district included will be forwarded on application to Mr. 

 J. H. A. Jenner, of Lewes, 



Mr. Ralph Tate has been appointed Professor of Geology and 

 Chemistry in the LTniversity of Adelaide. 



The post of Custodian of the Lindley Library at the Horticultural 

 Society has been given to Mr. W. B. Hemsley, who possesses an 

 extensive acquaintance with exotic and garden plants, and with 

 botanical literature, and a knowledge of some modern languages. 



We hear that Prof. Fenzl of Vienna is likely soon to retire from 

 the Professorship which he has so long held there. He will be suc- 

 ceeded by Prof. Kerner of Innsbruck, well known for his investiga- 

 tions in the Hungarian Flora and the hybrid forms of Primula and 

 other Alpine genera. 



The Prince of Wales having expressed a desire to have a botanical 

 collector attached to his suite during his tour through India, Mr. W. 

 Mudd, son of the Curator of the Cambridge University Botanic 

 Garden, has, we understand, been selected to act in that capacity. 



It does not appear to be generally known that the most interesting 

 portions, botanically considered, of the Clova district in Forfarshire, 

 Glen Dole and Glen Fiadh, are virtually closed to the public. On a 

 recent visit of some botanists the party were told that for three years 

 past everyone not claiming the use of the right of way to Castleton of 

 Braemar through Glen Dole has been turned back by the keeper in 

 charge of the deer-forest. They managed to get into the glen by 

 starting before midnight, so that dawn found them at the foot of the 

 Dounalt, below the station for Astragalus alpinus. The four hours 

 and a half of early dawn, however, till 7 o'clock, only permitted a 

 hasty search over ground where in 1871 the botanist was free to 

 wander. In guarding his territory so jealously the noble owner is not 

 actuated by a desire to preserve the rarer plants of the district from 

 extinction, but by more selfish motives. It is rumoured that he is 

 anxious to transfer his rights, and it is to be hoped that, in case of his 

 doing so, the coming owner will not continue to throw useless ob- 

 stacles in the way of the botanical visitor. 



