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diseases are clearly stated. Judging from the number of excellent 

 original figures (reproduced from photographs) we imagine that 

 the author was more at home in this latter portion than in the 

 earlier part of his book. It need not be said that the volume, 

 being issued by the Cambridge University Press (as one of the new 

 Farm Institute series) is admirably produced. 



J. Eamsbottom. 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, do. 



EoLAND Trimen, wdio died at Epsom at the end of July, was 

 the elder brother of Henry Trimen (1843-96), for many years 

 Editor of this Journal, of w^iom some account, partly from his 

 brother's pen, will be found in our volume for 1896 (pp. 489-91). 

 It is there stated that both were at an early age devoted to natural 

 history, and that it was decided between them that Henry should 

 devote himself to botany and Eoland to entomology. Born in 

 London in 1840 and educated at King's College, Eoland entered 

 the Civil Service and went to the Colonial Office at Cape 

 Town in 1860. Here he took up with enthusiasm the study in 

 which he attained high distinction ; Darwin was at that time 

 engaged in the study of plant-fertilization by insects, especially in 

 connection with orchids, and at his request Trimen examined 

 Disa grandiflora and Bonatea speciosa ; the result of his investiga- 

 tions appear in papers, illustrated by himself, in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 (Bot.) vii, 144 (1863) and ix, 156 (1865). Apart from these 

 papers, Trimen's extensive and important work was exclusively 

 entomological ; he published a catalogue of South African butter- 

 flies, and numerous papers by him are enumerated in the Eoyal 

 Society's Catalogue of Scientific Papers; he however made a 

 collection of about 200 Cape plants, which he presented to the 

 Department of Botany in 1871. From 1873 to 1895 he was 

 Curator of the South African Museum at Cape Town ; he became 

 a Fellow of the Linnean Society in 1871 and of the Eoyal Society 

 (which in 1910 awarded him the Darwin Medal) in 1883. Sir 

 J. D. Hooker, in this Journal for 1873 (p. 353), named Melianthus 

 Trunenianus in commemoration of the services of the brothers to 

 botany and entomology respectively ; Eoland " accompanied Sir 

 H. Barkly in his tour to Namaqua Land on the occasion of its 

 discovery." 



In addition to the pamphlet on Medicinal Herbs, noticed in 

 our last issue (p. 248), Mr. B. M. Holmes has published (at 

 Euthven, Sevenoaks) two others which should be useful to those 

 who are taking up work in this direction. One, The Cultivation 

 of Medicinal Plants and the Collection of Wild Herbs in Britain, 

 is reprinted from the Pharmaceutical Journal ; the other, on The 

 Cultivation and Drying of Medicinal Plants, is a lecture delivered 

 on behalf of the Central Committee for National Patriotic Organiza- 

 tion. In this Belladonna, Foxglove, and Henbane are particularly 

 dealt with. Each pamphlet contains 15 pages, and seems some- 



