EUOK-XOTES, XEWS, ETC. 167 



Geneiics. Miss Edith R. Saunders continues her "Studies in the 

 Inheritance of Doubleness in Flowers," dealing with the genera 

 Meconopsis, AlihcEu (Hollyhock) and Diantlius (Carnation and 

 Sweet William). Mr. E. C. Punnett contributes a note supplementary 

 to his paper on " Reduplication Series in Sweet Peas," published in 

 the same Journal for 1913. Mr. S. Ikeno has a long paper " On the 

 Hybrids of Capsicum annuum'" ; and Mr. R. R. Gates writes on 

 " Vegetative Segregation in a Hybrid Race " — QLnothera ruhriccdyx 

 X biennis : the last two papers are illustrated. 



Mr. Boulger publishes in TJie Essex Review for April the first 

 part of an interesting account of the " Unpublished Material relating 

 to John Ray," which he has found in the Bodleian Library. The 

 material includes a manuscript sketch of Ray's life and numerous 

 letters by Ray — twenty-six. to Edward Lhuyd and fourteen to John 

 Aubrey : the sketch is here ^reprinted, and from the letters numerous 

 extracts with comments are given. A l)iography of Ray in the same 

 library was transcribed b}^ Dr. Andrew Clark and published in the 

 same Review for October last : it is there erroneously attributed *' to a 

 supposed George Dale," but w^as the Avork of Samuel Dale, Ray's well- 

 known contemporary. 



The British Association has pul)lislied a useful pamphlet on 

 The UtiJisaiion and Improvement of Waste Lands which contains 

 abstracts of the following papers which were read last year at the 

 meeting of the Association at Newcastle : " The Planting of Pit 

 Mounds," by P. E. Martineau ; " Maritime Waste Lands," by Prof. 

 Oliver; "Utilisation of Northern Mountain and Heath Land," bv 

 Dr. W. G. Smith ; " Waste Moorlands," by Prof. Bottomley ; " Recla- 

 mation of Peat-lands in Carnarvonshire," by Prof. Lloyd Williams. 

 Copies may be obtained on apj^lication to the office of the Association, 

 Burlington House, W. 1. 



We are glad to learn that the tablet which it was proposed to 

 place on John Goodyer's house at Petersfield (see Journ. Bot. 1916, 

 375) has now been imbedded in the brickwork above the (modern) 

 front door. The wording is 



John Goodyer 



Botanist and Royalist 



(1592—1664) 



lived here. 



Mr. J. ]^v^rsBOTTO^r. Assistant in cliarge of the Fungi in tlie 

 Department of ijotany. British Museum, has been appointed tem- 

 porarily protozoologist to the medical staff at Salonica. The Trustees 

 of the Museum have accepted Miss A. Lorrain Smith's offer to act as 

 temporary a. sistant during Mr. Ramsbottom's absence, so that the 

 work of the Department in dealing with enquiries, economic and 

 otherwise, relating to the Fungi, will be continued without a break. 

 Workers at the British Lichens will be glad to know that Miss Smith's 

 revision of Vol. I. of Crombie's " Monograph " is now nearly complete 

 and should short Iv be readv for issue. 



