200 THE JOUllNAL OF BOTANY 



xviii. (1916). No new species are described and very few new 

 varieties. 



The whole work is a model of its kind — printing, figures, plates, 

 and get up being worthy of the valuable horticultural and botanical 

 matter contained in the volumes. 



J. K. 11. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, etc. 



At the meeting of the Linnean Society on June 5, Mr. H. N. Dixon 

 gave the following abstract of his paper on Mosses collected on Decep- 

 tion Island, South Shetlands, by Mr. James C. Robins. Deception 

 Island is in lat. 63° S., long. 60° 30' W., closely adjoining the Ant- 

 arctic continent (Graham Land). It has been very little visited, and 

 until the present century only two plants — an unnamed moss and a lichen 

 — had been observed. Two mosses were collected there in the second 

 French Antarctic Expedition (1908-10) by MM. Gain and Gourdon. 

 The present collection consists of eight species, one known from most 

 of the colder regions of the world, one hitherto only recorded from the 

 South Orkneys, three of general Antarctic distribution, two hitherto 

 known only from the Antarctic continent, and one new species. The- 

 interior of the island is a vast crater, into which the sea has irrupted, 

 and is about 5 miles across. Connected with this is a small lagoon, 

 some 500 yards in diameter ; Mr. Robins describes it as giving no 

 bottom at 200 fathoms, and as fed by warm or hot springs from the 

 volcano. The whole crater would seem, in the middle of extreme 

 glacial surroundings, to afford an almost unique example of an isolated 

 biological area, and would appear to deserve a careful survey as regards 

 its fauna and Hora, especially in so far as concerns that of the warm 

 springs and the lagoon fed by these. 



Sir Frank Crisp, who was born at Bungay, Oct. 25, 1843, died 

 at his residence, Friar Park, Henley-on-Thames, on April 29, where 

 his gardens, and especially his rock garden, were among the most 

 remarkable in the country. From 1881 to 1906 he was Vice-Presi- 

 dent and Treasurer of the Linnean Society, at whose Annual Meetings 

 his financial statements were looked forward to with interest, on 

 account of the amusing comments with which his figures were inter- 

 spersed. He was also Hon. Secretary of the Royal Microscoj^ical 

 Society from 1878 to 1889, to whose Journal he contributed papers 

 dealing with practical microscopy. 



The Irish Naturalist for March contains an interesting paper 

 (with plates) by Dr. George H. Pethy bridge on heterocarpy in Ficris 

 hieracioides. 



A Correction. — Mr. Moore calls our attention to a curious error 

 in our review of The Life and Letters of Sir Joseph Hooker, where 

 (p. 132, 1. 2 from bottom) " Lyell " should be substituted for 

 " Banks." The phrasing of the letter quoted is somewhat obscure, 

 but as Banks died in 1820 he obviously could not have been seen by 

 Hooker in 1836. We may take the opportunity of correcting a 

 mistake in the book itself (ii. 275), where it is stated that "a fourth 

 edition of the Studenfs Flora " appeared in 1897 ; the last (third) 

 edition appeared in 188'i. 



