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Lord Petre, Dr. Fothergill, and others. Many American trees 

 were first sent to Europe by Bartram ; amongst them being the 

 Taxodhim distichnm still extant at Mill Hill, in ColHnson's old 

 garden. An even finer specimen, which died a few years ago, was 

 150 feet high, and 27 feet in girth ; the trunk still stands in the 

 Bartram Garden Park, Philadelphia. In 1769 Bartram was 

 elected a member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Science at 

 Stockholm, and the long letter he sent in acknowledgment is in the 

 Society's possession among the Linnaean correspondence. He 

 died when the United States were one year old, in his old house, 

 on September 22nd, 1777. His life was shortened by the appre- 

 hension that his cherished garden might be laid waste by British 

 troops, but his fears were not realised. This garden is now the 

 property of the City of Philadelphia, and is supported as a public 

 park. From time to time the members of the John Bartram 

 Association, many of whom are his lineal descendants, meet to 

 keep his memory green. The moss genus Bartramia is his 

 botanical memorial. Miss Herring-Browne has devoted many 

 months to searching for memorials of Bartram in this country, and 

 has succeeded in finding many interesting letters and objects ; these 

 will be described in the complete work upon which she is engaged. 



At the meeting of the same Society on March 2nd, Dr. Stapf 

 spoke of the distribution of the Box, Bnxus semj^ervirens, 

 Linn., and especially on the relation existing between the English 

 stations and its area on the Continent, supporting his remarks by 

 lantern-slides (distribution-map and views of Box on Boxhill and 

 in the Chilterns, the latter taken by Mr. John Hutchinson). He 

 adopted Dr. Christ's views as to the character of the Box as a 

 relict of the Tertiary flora of Southern Europe, and the discon- 

 tinuous distribution as brought about, by disintegration of an old 

 continuous and much larger area ; but he could not share the view 

 that the isolated stations in Western France are generally due to 

 old plantations around castles and monasteries. These he con- 

 sidered relict stations like the English stations. 



Not having had the opportunity of hearing Dr. Stapf's remarks, 

 we are not aware whether he referred to the papers which have 

 been published in this Journal on the subject of the distribution of, 

 the Box in England : in any case our readers may like to be 

 reminded of R. A. Pryor's note on its occurrence in Buckingham- 

 shire (Journ. Bot. 1887, 241) and of those of G. R. M. Murray 

 and Messrs. Cedric Bucknall and W. G. Smith in Journ. Bot. 1901, 

 27, 29, 73. 



Mr. J. H. Maiden, of the Botanic Gardens, Sydney, and Mr. 

 H. H. W. Pearson, of the South African College, Cape Town, have 

 been nominated for the Fellowship of the Royal Society. 



It is from the Daily Chronicle that we get the last example of 

 newspaper botany. From its issue of March 13th we learn that 

 " The ash undoubtedly appears to the best advantage during this 

 month, when its clusters of reddish flowers are replaced by ' the 

 black buds o' March,' as Lord Tennyson called them." This 

 would, we think, have astonished Tennyson. 



