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it brought to our aid a number of good botanists who, until then, 

 were ignorant of the character and extent of our work." Of the 

 Flora itself the review published in this Journal (1909, 388) 

 gives an appreciative, if somewhat critical, notice ; it may be 

 doubted whether any flora owes more to steady personal investi- 

 gation, hindered though this was by ill-health and business 

 avocations. 



In addition to his contributions to this Journal, Davey 

 published papers in the Transactions of the Boyal Cornivall 

 Polyteclmic Society and furnished annual botanical reports to the 

 Eoyal Cornwall Institution, which, in acknowledgment, presented 

 him in 1905 with the Henwood gold medal — the first time on 

 which this has been conferred upon a botanist. He was examiner 

 in agricultural botany to the Cornwall County Council, and wrote 

 the article on botany for the Victoria History of Cornivall ; he 

 supplied notes to the Eeports of the Watson Exchange Club, of 

 which he was a contributing member from 1901 to 1914. The 

 last Eeport contains a sketch of Davey by Dr. Vigurs, to which 

 w^e are indebted for information, with an excellent portrait, taken 

 in 1902, w4iich, by the courtesy of Mr. George Goode, Hon. 

 Secretary and Editor to the Club, we are enabled to reproduce. 



Davey is commemorated by Dr. Henry in a variety — Daveyi — 

 of Ulmus major, which occurs in Cornwall mixed with the type 

 " which it resembles in its wide-spreading habit, but has very 

 pendulous branches " {Trees of Great Britaifi, p. 1881). He 

 became a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1903. 



BEVIEWS. 



Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the British Museum {Natural 

 History). The Cretaceotis Flora. Part II. Loiver Green- 

 sand {Aptian) Plants of Britain. By Maeie C. Stopes, 

 D.Sc.(Lond.), Ph.D.(Munich). (British Museum Pubhca- 

 tions, London, 1915.) 8vo, cloth, pp. xv, 360, 32 plates. 

 Price £1 Is. 

 The second part of The Cretaceous Flora by Dr. Stopes is 

 concerned with the Lower Greensand flora, and in an appendix 

 some specimens are described which are probably derived from 

 beds of Wealden age. The value of the work from a botanical 

 point of view is enhanced by the fact that most of the fossils are 

 preserved as petrifactions. Twenty-seven out of a total of forty- 

 five plants are Conifers, and it is to these that the greater part of 

 the volume is devoted. Having regard to the absence of any 

 flowering plants from British Wealden strata, the occurrence of 

 petrified angiosperm wood in the Aptian beds has a special interest. 

 The absence of any member of the AraucarinecB is noted as evidence 

 in support of the conclusion that the climate was cool or even cold. 

 It may, however, be suggested that too little weight is given to 

 the composition of the Aptian flora ; the abundance of petrified 

 coniferous wood and the presence of only two ferns are no doubt 



