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for very many years. Besides those present, numerous British 

 botanists had written to express their regret at their inability to 

 be present and their good wishes to the Journal and its Editor. 

 Mr. Britten, in acknowledging the kind things that had been said, 

 made special reference to Mr. C. E. Salmon, to whom the proposal 

 and execution of the programme was mainly due. 



The Department of Botany of the British Museum has 

 added to its publications an important contribution to Nigerian 

 Botany in a Catalogue of the Plants collected by Mr. and Mrs. 

 P. A. Talbot in the Oban District. The important discoveries in 

 other branches of science by these travellers have attracted con- 

 siderable attention, and their botanical collections present many 

 features of interest. We learn from Dr. Rendle's introduction 

 that of the 1016 species and varieties, 195 are new, 9 of which 

 are new genera — Alphonseopis and Dennettia in Anonaceae ; Cra- 

 teranthus (Myrtaceae) ; Afrohamelia, Dorothea, Diphsporopsis and 

 Globulostylis (Rubiaceae) ; Scyphostrychnos (Loganiaceae) ; Talbotia 

 (Acanthaceae ; antedated by Afrcfittonia Lindau, published on 

 March 28) ; and Amauriella (Araceae). The work has been 

 undertaken almost entirely by the officers of the Department of 

 Botany — the Polypetalae by Mr. E. G. Baker ; the Gamopetalaa by 

 Mr. Wernham and Mr. S. Moore ; the Monocotyledons by Dr. 

 Rendle ; the Fungi by Mr. Ramsbottom, who gives a very 

 interesting description of Lentinus Tuber-regium : a complete list 

 of all the plants collected is given separately. The memoir, which 

 costs 9s., is illustrated by seventeen plates ; a selection of the 

 large collection of drawings by Mrs. Talbot, which have proved of 

 great assistance in working out the collection, will be published 

 separately. 



The veteran Australian botanist, Mr. F. Manson Bailey, has 

 published in a large and very heavy volume — it weighs 4 lb. 2 oz. 

 — a Comprehensive Catalogue of Queensland Plants, both indi- 

 genous and naturalized. The preface is dated 1909, the titlepage 

 bears no date : but a note prefixed to the appendix (p. 835) is dated 

 December 1912, so that the volume was issued during the present 

 year. The appendix contains two new species — Aristotelia trilo- 

 cularis and Sarcochilus minutiflos. The book is, as stated, merely 

 a list, with occasional notes ; it is extravagantly printed on shiny 

 paper and contains 976 poorly executed figures and 16 fairly good 

 coloured plates. " The present publication," we are told in the 

 preface, " is a second edition of the Catalogue of the Indigenous 

 and Naturalized Plants of Queensland which was published in 

 June, 1890"; from a bibliographer's point of view it is to be 

 regretted that the title was changed. 



Apart from its purely systematic contents, the latest part 

 (vol. iv. pt. 1, published May 31) of the Transactions of the British 

 Mycological Society contains two papers of special interest. The 

 President, Miss Gulielma Lister, gives an exceedingly interesting 

 account of " The Past Students of Mycetozoa and their Work," 

 and Mr. Ramsbottom, in the paper modestly entitled " Some 

 Notes on the History of the Classification of the Uredinales," gives 



