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species and Imndred and fifty varieties ; and brief key cliaracters are 

 supplied in some of the groups, especially Cuspidata and Subsecunda. 

 The classification is more elaborate, in keeping with the advanced 

 develo])ment of AVarnstorf's later views. Further, a few new forms 

 not included in Warnstorf's Sphagnologia have been discovered in our 

 islands ; and some of these are now described in rather inadequate 

 Latin. Mr. Wheldon's Synopsis was compiled with a view to the 

 needs of the Moss Exchange Club, from whose Hon. Sec. Mr. Wm. 

 Ingham, 6 Sycamore Terrace, Clifton, York, copies may be obtained. 

 It may be of interest to add that The Twenty-second Annual Report 

 (York: Coultas & Volans, Ltd., 1917, pp. 177-199) of this Club 

 has recently come to hand, and contains the customary list of mosses 

 and hepatics contributed by the members. Some of the items are 

 illuminated with valuable remarks and criticisms by the referees. 



A. a. 



We are glad to learn that the numerous protests which have been 

 raised in connection wdth the proposed suspension of the Kew Bulletin 

 have been effectual. The official decision regarding it was made 

 public in the House of Commons on the 4th ult., when Mr. S. 

 Baldwin, replying to a question addressed to the Treasury, said : — 

 " I am informed that the question of the suspension of the issue of 

 the Kew Bulletin was considered by the Select Committee on 

 Publication and Debates Reports last week, and that it w^as decided 

 to recommend that the Bulletin should be continued, but with due 

 regard to economy. Subject to the omission, therefore, of certain 

 classes of information which, though doubtless of scientific interest 

 can, it is thought, be postponed without detriment to the welfare of 

 the State, the publication of the Bulletin w411 be resumed." This 

 statement did not make it clear whether the classes of information to 

 be left out were to be omitted b}^ the Editor or to be cut out by the 

 Select Committee on Publication and Debates Reports, and on 

 July 10 Viscount Bryce opened a debate in the House of Lords on 

 this matter. In reply to Lord Bryce, the Duke of Marlborough, on 

 behalf of the Government, said that: — -"The Editor will be allowed 

 to decide the matter of the Bulletin and wdll consider what is 

 essential and what can properly be omitted." The second number 

 of the Bulletin for the current j^ear wdll be issued immediately, and 

 will be followed by other numbers as rapidly as possible. 



The June number of the Journal of Ecology contains continua- 

 tions of the papers on " The Salt Marshes of the Dovey Estuary," 

 North Wales, by R. H. Yapp, D. Johns, and O. T. Jones and " On the 

 Ecology of the Vegetation of Breckland," Suffolk, hj E. Pickworth 

 Farrow. Both paj^ers are illustrated with plates and figures in 

 the text. 



