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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, Sc, 



We announce with great regret tlie death of Dr. Teimkn, for 

 many years Editor of this Journal, which took place at Peradeniya 

 on Oct. 16tli. A portrait and memoir of the deceased hotanist will 

 appear in our next issue. We have also to record the death of 

 Baron Ferdinand von Mueller, which took place at Melbourne on 

 the 9th of October. A fuller notice will follow in due course. 



The Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information, headed "May and 

 June" and issued in October, consists mainly of miscellaneous 

 extracts from previously published works. The preface to part i. 

 of the continuation of the Flora Capensis, the introduction to the 

 Kew Hand-list of Conifercc, citations from Nature and the Demerara 

 Arr/osi/, a report of Sir Alfred Moloney on British Honduras, and 

 various selections from ofiicial correspondence make up a number 

 devoid of original matter and of no botanical interest. Appendix ii. 

 containing a list of the new garden plants of 1895, appeared in 

 September. It is modestly claimed for these lists that they are 

 "indispensable to the maintenance of a correct nomenclature," 

 and, if this be so, it seems desirable that they should be issued 

 earlier in the year. 



Captain Bartle Grant, having brought together from various 

 works descriptions of Burmese Orchids (including those of the 

 Andaman Islands), has printed thetn in a volume entitled The 

 Orchids of Burma (London, Quaritch ; 10s. 6d. net). Those who, 

 like the author, feel the need of a book of reference dealing specially 

 with Burmese orchids will find this a very useful volume, more 

 especially as it includes the information given by Mr. Parish in 

 Theobald's edition of Mason's Burma. Captain Bartle Grant has 

 not, so far as we have seen, himself added any new species to the 

 list, but the work of compilation seems to have been done with care 

 and accuracy. 



We regret to record the death of Professor Thomas King, which 

 took place on September 14th at Fochabers, where he had gone to 

 attend the Conference of the Cryptogamic Society of Scotland, of 

 which he was Hon. Treasurer. Mr. King was born on April 14th, 

 1834, at Yardfoot, Lochwinnoch, Renfrewshire. When about twenty 

 years of age he removed to Glasgow, where for several years he 

 attended the Training College of the Free Church of Scotland, with 

 the view of qualifying himself for educational work. He taught 

 English in schools at Glasgow, Paisley, &c., from 1858 till 18G4, 

 when his health broke down, and he afterwards obtained an edu- 

 cational appointment at Valparaiso, Chile, where he remained for 

 nine years. While resident in that country he formed extensive 

 collections of plants, &c., and was successful in discovering several 

 species new to science. He returned to Glasgow in 1873. Mr. King 

 held the certificate of the Department of Science and Art as a 

 teacher of Botany, and was lecturer on Botany in the Glasgow and 

 West of Scotland Technical College, Veterinary College, and various 

 other educational institutions. In 1889 he was appointed Professor 



