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acknowledges his obligations, and there is a useful index. The 

 name of the author is sufficient guarantee that the work is care- 

 fully done. 



YVi: have received the first number of The Journal of Ecology, 

 which is edited for the British Ecological Society by Mr. Frank 

 Cavers. It contains papers on the Vegetation of Blakeney Point, 

 Norfolk, by Prof. F. W. Oliver, and on Raunkiaer's Life Forms 

 and Statistical Methods by Mr. William G. Smith. Mr. Tansley 

 contributes a long and important critical review of Brockmann- 

 Jerosch and Rubel's suggestions for " a Universal Classification 

 of Plant-Communities": there are also briefer articles, and ex- 

 ceedingly interesting and valuable summaries of recent ecological 

 work at home and abroad. The Journal (a small quarto), which 

 is to appear quarterly — the present, issued May 5, is the March 

 number — is beautifully printed. Each number costs five shillings 

 net ; members of the Ecological Society (the subscription to 

 which is a guinea annually) receive it free by post, and, if we 

 may judge by the first number, will obtain full value for their 

 money. 



By desire of the Committee of the Somerset Archaeological 

 and Natural History Society, the Rev. E. S. Marshall, of West 

 Monkton Rectory, Taunton, is preparing a Supplement to Murray's 

 Flora of Somerset ; he will be grateful for any new information, 

 which should reach him not later than the end of October. In 

 the case of critical forms, he would like to see specimens (to be 

 returned, if not duplicates). A good deal of work has been done 

 since 1896, especially in the north of the county, and Mr. J. W. 

 White has generously allowed full use to be made of his excellent 

 Bristol Flora. 



A new Flora of Norfolk is in course of preparation. Mr. 

 W. A. Nicholson, late Hon. Sec. of the Norfolk and Norwich 

 Naturalists' Society, who has been accumulating materials for 

 the purpose for some years past, is acting as editor. It will 

 include articles dealing with the " History of Botanical Research 

 in Norfolk," by the Editor ; " Meteorology," by Mr. A. W. 

 Preston, F.R.Met.Soc. ; " Soils," by Mr. L. F. Newman, B.A., of 

 the School of Agriculture, Cambridge ; and " Physiography and 

 Plant-Distribution," by Mr. W. H. Burrell, F.L.S. It is pro- 

 posed to utilize as far as possible the work of the many students 

 of the Flora of the county, both resident and non-resident, with a 

 view to showing the progress that has been made in the detailed 

 study of the local plants, and the changes, if any, that have 

 occurred since the publications of Sir J. E. Smith, the Hookers, 

 Rev. Kirby Trimmer, and others. The MS. is well advanced, and 

 will, it is hoped, be ready for publication in the autumn. 



