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L.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
. GERALD ATKINSON has been appointed by the Minister 
of Agriculture and Fisheries, as from 11th September 1922, 
Artist in the Herbarium at Kew, in succession to Mr. Arthur 
Kellett. Mr. Atkinson received his training at the School of 
- Art, Hull. 
WE record with great regret, as this number goes to the 
printers, the deaths of Sir Isaac BayLey Batrour, F.R.S., late 
Regius Keeper of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Edinburgh, and 
Henry Joun Extwes, F.R.S. Notices of their contributions to 
botanical science will appear in the next number of the Bulletin. 
The Botanical Magazine.—After the lapse of nearly two 
years we welcome the new issue of Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, 
which has for so long been closely associated with the Royal 
Botanic Gardens. 
The termination of the Fourth Series with the final part of 
Vol. XVI. was announced in the Bulletin for 1920, pp. 373, 374, 
and now after a long and anxious period it is being issued once 
more in its familiar cover, but under the auspices of the Royal 
Horticultural Society who have become the new Proprietors. 
The Editorship has passed from the hands of the Director 
into those of Dr. O. Stapf, F.R.S8., the late Keeper of the 
Herbarium and Library, and the Society is to be congratulated 
on having secured the services of so eminent a botanist for this 
important scientific undertaking. To Kew also the choice of 
Editor is a welcome one, since the long connection between 
Kew and the Magazine will continue much as in the past 
The new part—Part I. of Vol. CXLVIII., published by 
Messrs. H. F. & G. Witherby—is in every way excellent. 
Plates as in former years are very well drawn, but the repro- 
duction and colouring are greatly improved and the Plates are 
now comparable to those of the Magazine at its best. 
he figures are the work of three artists, Miss Smith, 
Mr. Kellett, lately artist at Kew, and Miss Snelling, artist to 
the Magazine. They show both beauty of design and great 
accuracy of detail. The plants figured are Jasminum rex, Dunn 
(t. 8934) a remarkable pure white Jasmine from Siam; the 
dwarf Rhododendron Williamsianum, Rehder & Wilson (t. 8935), 
from Western China; Podanthum floribundum, Stapf (t. 8936), 
an py hiletpeking new species, here described for the first time, 
m Asia Minor which promises to be a garden plant of value; 
M "Sha ie aa fragrans, Salm Dyck (t. 8937) from South 
Africa ; Aeschynanthus sikkimensis, Stapf (t. 8938) from India, 
also a new species. The plant figured was collected by Mr. Elwes 
near Darjeeling, and has brilliant flowe 
The next subjects are Primula Sinolisteri, Balf. f. (t. 8939) 
allied to P.’ Listeri, King and P. obconica, Hance, a native of 
South Western China; Stapelia tsomoensis, N. E. Brown (t. 8940), 
