:^G0 THE .TOURXAL OF BOTAXY 



cheap (7^/. n.) and useful little book written by Mr. H. S. Thompson 

 and published by Messrs. Routledge. Mr. Thompson is entitled to 

 tjive advice on the matter, for like Chaucer's parson, he has " first 

 folowed it himselve " as any one who has had specimens from him 

 will know; and he rightly condemns the distribution of "ill-chosen, 

 misshapen, discoloured and awry " examples, "otherwise valuable," 

 of "critical varieties and forms." Mr. Thompson does not stop at 

 collectintr and drying, but tells us how to mount and poison the 

 sjx'cimens, how to label them, how to send them by post — in fact his 

 little book contains all that folk need know about preserving plants. 



The late Sir George Bird wood, of Avhom we hope to publish some 

 account in our next issue, had promised to write for the Journal 

 a notice of Sir Clements K. Maekham (1830-1916), and for this 

 reason our notice of the latter was deferred. It has now been ren- 

 dered unnecessary by the volume — The Life of Sir Clements B. 

 Marl'haiH, K.C.B., F.R.S. — from the pen of Sir Albert H. Markham, 

 which has just been published by Mr. John Murrav. A summary of 

 his work in connection with the collection and introduction to culti- 

 vation of Cinchona will be found in the volume, in which a special 

 chapter (pp. 164-194)1 is devoted to " the quest for Cinchona." 

 He contributed to the first volume of this Journal (1863, pp. 37- 

 55) a paper on " Chinchona Cultivation in India " and wrote in the 

 second (pp. 8-11) on the introduction of Peruvian Cotton to that 

 country : in the former volume (p. 325) Seemann named after him 

 the genus Markhamia (now reduced to Dolicliandrone). 



The Report of the Department of Botany, British Museum, 

 mentions the following among the more important accessions to the 

 Herbarium : — Lt. A. Buchanan, specimens from British East Africa ; 

 P. Amaury Talbot, from Degema, S. Nigeria ; G. L. Bates, from 

 AVest Tropical Africa; R. A. Diimmer, from Uganda; Capt. C. 

 Tristram, Himalayas ; Director, Botanic Gardens, Singapore, from 

 Malay Peninsula \ Capt. W. H. Shakespear, from Arabia ; Dr. F. 

 Stoward and J. E. C. Maryon, from West Australia; Dr. R. R. 

 Gates, 135 specimens of cultivated (Enofhera ; P. A. Saccardo 

 "Mvcotheca Veneta " ; J. Groves, European Characeie ; Tonpiay 

 Natural History Society, Muscineae from the East Indies and North 

 America ; Dr. C. W. Andrews, Cryptogams from Christmas Island ; 

 Mrs. Cara Shinn, Fungi fi-om N^^asaland ; Miss A. Pegler, Crypto- 

 gams from Kentani, South Africa. 



By exchange of du]jlicates there have been acfjuired : from the 

 Regius Keeper, Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, species of 

 Frinuda from Yunnan, W. China; Director, South African Museum, 

 Ca])e Town, Ericaceie and Leguminosae ; Curator, Auckland Museum, 

 New Zealand plants ; l^rince Bonaparte, Mexican plants ; Depart- 

 ment of Agriculture, Washington, U.S.A., North American Grasses ; 

 U.S. National Museum, Washington, Tropical African (Col. Theo. 

 Jloosevelt Expedition, 1909-10), Argentine and North American 

 plants ; Director, Botanic Gardens, New York, Jamaica plants ; 

 Director, Museu Goeldi, Para, Brazilian plants. 



We regret to announce the death of two veteran botanists : — 

 Dr. Robert P>raithwaite (born 1S24) who died at Brixton on Oct. 20 

 nnd ]\lr. Worthington George Smith (born 1835) who died at 

 Dunstable on Oct. 27. Notices of both will appear in an early issue. 



