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volumes have so far appeared ; also Timiriazeff’s The Life of the 
Plant, translated by A. Chéréméteff, 1912, and the English edition 
of The Alpine Flora, by H. Correvon and P. Robert [1912]. The 
original edition of the last named was presented by Sir Frank 
in 1909, 
From the Secretary of State for India another volume of 
Mr. W. Foster’s work The English Factories in India, dealing with 
the period between 1637 and 1641, and a further portion of The 
Bower Manuscript have been receive 
The Actes du [IIme Congres International de Botanique (Brussels, 
tat were published last year in two volumes under the direction 
of D . De Wildeman, by whom they have been sent to the 
library. 
Dr. S. H. Koorders has contributed a set of his Exkursionsflora 
von Java, published by G. Fischer of Jena, 1911-12. ough the 
descriptive matter is encased mainly in the form of keys, the 
work forms three large octavo volumes, comprising altogether 
nearly 1700 pages, with 17 plates, 4 maps, and 139 text-figures. 
It impresses us as being most carefully done, and we welcome it as a 
valuable guide to a rich and interesting flora. 
Prof. Hans Schinz has continued to send the —_—— aus 
dem botanischen roo der Universitdt Ziirich mong those 
received in 1912 are: Die Algenflora der Limmat vom Ziriehsee bis 
unterhalb des Wisterwarka es, by H. a 1911; Deutsch- 
Sitidwest-Afrika, in botanischer Beziehung, 1, by H. Schinz, 1911; 
and further Beitrdge zur Kenntnis der afvikanischer Flora und der 
Schweizer flora, edited by H. Schinz 
Mr. W. Botting Sree has presented a set (250) of the plates 
prepared for Mr. T. F. Cheeseman’s forthcoming work, Illustrations 
of the Flora of New Zealand. The plates have been drawn under 
the direction of Mr. Hemsley by Miss M. Smith and lithographed 
y Mr. 
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The second edition of Mr. Arthur Lister’s fine Monograph of the 
Mycetozoa, revised by Miss Gulielma Lister, 1911, has been 
received from the Trustees of the British Museum. 
Mr. J. H. addieg s ene Revision of the genus Eucalyptus has 
now reached part 16. Parts 14 to 16 have reached the libra 
during the year from the saline and the continuation of his Forest 
Flora of New South Wales (four parts) has been received from the 
Honourable the Secretary for Agriculture, Sydney. 
Mr. Zygmunt Woycicki of Warsaw has begun a work illustrating 
the vegetation of Poland, following the plan of the well-known 
Vegetationsbilder of Karsten and Schenck. It is entitled : Obrazy 
Roéslinnosci Krélestwa Polskiego. Three parts, each containing ten 
plates, with descriptive text in Polish and German, have so 
been issued, and for these the establishment is indebted to the 
author. 
An interesting manuscript has been presented = Canon Ella- 
combe. It is a transcript of the account of Samuel Brewer's 
journey from Yorkshire to London in 1691. It heats the title 
Adversariorum Hodoeporicum, and on a fly-leaf it is stated that 
“the original is in the possession of Miss Currer at Eshton Hall.” 
pas; who was the first to discover Dianthus caesius in Britain, 
