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The Annual Report for 1916 of the Yorkshire Philosophical 

 Soeietv contains the conclusion of the interesting Catalogue of British 

 Plants in the Society's Herbarium (the publication of which was begun 

 in the Report for 1891;) by Mr. H. J. Wilkinson, the Hon. Curator. 

 The Catalogue contains the locality, collector, and date of the speci- 

 mens, with a reference to the herbaria from which they were derived. 

 The most interesting are those of James Dalton (1 704-1813) and 

 Samuel Hailstone (1768-1851), the former of which was presented 

 to the Society by Dalton in 1827. 



Mr. D. a. Joxes publishes in the Lancashire and Cliesliire 

 Naturalist for August a list of the Mosses and Hepatics of South- 

 west Anglesey, and in the Naturalist for September and October a 

 similar list for Denbighshire. 



Mb. R. Ll. Praeger publishes in the Irish Naturalist for Sep- 

 tember a paper on the occurrence of JEg[uisetum litorale in Ireland. 



The two parts (issued together in September) of vol. xlii. of the 

 Journal of the Hoyal Horticultural Society contain two papers of 

 much botanical as well as horticultural interest — Mr. E. A. Bunyard's on 

 the history and development of the Red Curi-ant and Mr. C. H. Payne's 

 on the Dahlia and its reported introduction in 1789. Mr. R. Farrer s 

 Jieport from Kansu and Tibet is also full of interest : the names 

 published in the report must not escape the notice of botanists. 

 Mr. F. J. Hanbury gives an account, with illustrations from photo- 

 graphs, of his rock-garden at East Grrinstead : the Rev. Joseph Jacob 

 writes on *' Daffodil Developments " and Prof. M. C. Potter on 

 " Economic Mycology." 



In the recent part (vol. Ixi. part 2) of the Memoirs of the 

 Manchester Literary and Philosophical Society Mr. Charles Bailey 

 gives a detailed description of the fine herbarium presented by 

 him to the Victoria University of that cit}^ of which some account 

 was given in om* May issue (p. 141). 



The Kew Bulletin issued in August (no. 3, 1917) contains a 

 revision of Aspidopterys by Mr. J. Hutchinson, in which twenty-two 

 species are enumerated and three new ones described ... a continua- 

 tion of his papers on Nigerian Fungi by Mr. E. M. Waketield (with 

 three new species and an interesting note on Monilia carhonaria) 

 and of Mr. Hutchinson's notes on African Coniposifce, in which 

 Matricaria and Chrysanthemum are dealt with, including a new 

 species of the latter. In view of a possible renewal of the recent 

 attack upon the existence of the Bulletin, it might we think be well 

 to give more prominence to matters economic, which in this issue are 

 represented only by two pages devoted to " seed selection in the 

 cultivation of Ilevea hrasiliensis.'''' 



