G4 BOTANICAL Xr.WS. 



A tabular view of the plants of tlio oast coast of Lake TTiiron, ninl 

 their distribution through noiglxbouring parts of North America, by J. 

 Gibson and J. Macoun, will be found in the "Canadian Journal of 

 Science " for December, 1875. 



The re-issue of Sowerby and Johnson's " Wild Flowers of Great 

 Britain" is completed; there is a supplement embodying recent ad- 

 ditions, and the Ferns and Fern-allies. 



Mrs. Leech, of Auckland, New Zealand, has published an octavo 

 pamphlet of sixty-four pages, entitled, " Ferns which grow in New 

 Zealand and the adjacent islands plainly described." It contains a 

 glossary of terms, an account of how to prepare a collection, a full 

 description of every indigenous species, and an account of its range 

 within the islands — in short, everything that is needed in the way of 

 literature to equip a local collector, and all for a couple of shillings. 

 It is published by Wayte, of Auckland, and follows the nomenclature 

 of Hooker and Baker's " Synopsis Filicum," first edition. 



M. Husnot's " Revue liryologique " has entered on its third year. 

 The cost of this little periodical, devoted entirely to Mosses and 

 Ilepaticffi, is 5 fr. a year, payable to M. T. Husnot a Cahan, par 

 Athis, Orne. 



Prof. E. Morren contributes to the " Moniteur Beige " news- 

 paper (Jan. 8 — 12) a comprehensive and clear account of the present 

 condition of our knowledge on the subjects of vegetable digestion and 

 movement. The paper was read before the Belgian Academy on 

 Dec. 16. 



Mr. Thiselton Dyer has resigned the partial editorship of the 

 " Quarterly Journal of Microscopical Science," and Mr. W. iVrcher, of 

 Dublin, has succeeded him in the care of the botanical part of that 

 periodical. 



M. C. Miiller having completed his account of the Mosses collected 

 by Schwcinfurth, is studying those collected by Dr. Lorentz in Bolivia 

 and other mountainous districts of South America. Except, perhaps, 

 that of Mr. Spruce, this collection is said to be the richest yet made in 

 the district. M. Miiller has also received from the German traveller, 

 Hildebrandt, some interesting African Mosses, including a new 

 genus. 



Friedrich Gottlieb Bartling died on November 19th, 1875, at 

 Gottingeh, where for fifty-three years he had taught botany, suc- 

 ceeding Schrader in the full professorship in 1837, He was 

 born at Hannover 9th December, 1798, and had thus nearly 

 completed his seventy-seventh year. In his long life he did not 

 publish very much. His most important work, the " Ordines 

 naturales I'lantarum,-" the result of great labour and research, 

 appeared in 1830, and in 1824-25, in conjunction with Wendland, 

 Bartling published an important memoir on Cape Diosmca. Other 

 papers have appeared in the " Linnjca" and other German periodicals. 

 A biography will be found in the " Botanischc Zeitung" for 24th 

 December. 



The death is recorded in November last of James Walker, of 

 Mosslcy, cnie of the best of the " working-men " botanists of Lanca- 

 shire. 



