280 THE JOURNAL OP BOTANY 



what dear at Is. 3<:Z.— this apphes especially to the first, in which 

 the small and unpleasing type of the journal from which it is 

 reprinted is employed. It is we think to be regretted that these 

 useful pamphlets were not secured by the Eoyal Agricultural 

 Society or some such public body which would have distributed 

 them freely or produced them at a nominal cost. 



Botany is almost unrepresented in the July number of the 

 Journal of Genetics (vol. v, no. 4), which is mainly occupied by a 

 beautifully and lavishly illustrated paper by Miss Eose Haig 

 Thomas on " Colour and Pattern-Transference in Pheasant 

 Crosses." Mr. E. H. Biffen, however, has a short article on 

 "The Suppression of Characters in Crossing," as illustrated by 

 experiments with forms of wheat. 



The Fungus Foray of the British Mycological Society will be 

 held in the New Forest from the 25th to the 30th of this month. 

 During the week Mr. E. W. Swanton will deliver his presidential 

 address on " Education in Mycology," and Mr. Eamsbottom will 

 read a paper " On The History of the Ustilaginales." 



The last number of the Keio Bulletin (July) contains a list of 

 sixty-seven botanical drawings collected by the late Sir Arthur 

 Church, which have been presented by his widow to the Eoyal 

 Gardens, Kew. The list is accompanied by notes by Miss Matilda 

 Smith on the various artists represented, in which — though this 

 is not acknowledged — the Biograjjhical List of British Botanists has 

 been of much assistance — e.g. the short account of John Edwards is 

 transcribed therefrom. Of the work of Peter Brown, five fine 

 examples are in the collection of botanical drawings in the 

 National Herbarium, a list of which might usefully be published : 

 amongst these are the drawings for the Neiv Botanic Garden hy 

 Sydenham Edwards — an artist represented in Church's collection 

 by five examples. 



Under " E. P. Nodder " Miss Smith writes: "An Enghsh 

 painter of horses and other animals exhited at the Eoyal Academy 

 from 1786-1820. He was appointed botanical painter to George III 

 and after that exhibited a few flower pictures. No particulars of 

 his Hfe have been found." A reference to the Dictionary of 

 National BiograpJuj (xli, 86) suppHes information which suggests 

 that two persons are confused in this paragraph. Eichard P. 

 Nodder, who " obtained some repute as a painter of horses and 

 dogs and was an occasional exhibitor at the Eoyal Academy," 

 appears to have been the son of Frederick Polydore Nodder, the 

 botanical artist, who died about 1800— certainly before 1803— and 

 could not therefore have exhibited in 1820. F. P. Nodder was 

 employed by Banks to reproduce and complete for pubhcation the 

 drawings made by Sydney Parkinson during Cook's First Voyage : 

 these and a large number of other drawings by him are in the 

 National Herbarium. He supplied illustrations for various botanical 

 works, and was "Botanic Painter" to Queen Carohne, wife of 

 George III : he exhibited flower paintings at the Eoyal Academy 

 in 1786. 



