REVIEWS—BOTANIOAL LOCALITY RECORD CLUB, ETO. 71 
Cryptogams, for which purpose it has already published a 
“ Catalogue of British Mosses,” (a second edition of which will 
include the Hepatice,) and, in the last report, a preliminary 
list of stations for the Characew. What is required is more members 
who will take up this branch of enquiry. It is probable that, for the 
purpose of the investigations of which these county-records are intended 
to form a basis, the lower Cryptogams will furnish more reliable data 
than the Phanerogams as being less directly influenced by human 
agencies. 
The ‘Recorder” also proposes a scheme for future work in the 
publication of a series of maps, indicating by colouring the counties in 
which each of a selected number of standard species occurs as a native, 
thus ‘fixing types of distribution on the brain through the eye.” It is 
intended, if possible, to publish them with the yearly reports, and it is to 
be hoped that this plan will be carried out. ‘ Concurrently with such 
illustration of distribution would come a partitioning of our native 
British Flora into squads—Geographical Allies, presenting striking points 
of agreement in comital range.” or instance, the ‘‘ Recorder” says that 
Cerastium arvense, Centaurea Scabiosa, and Hchium vulgare have, in West 
Yorkshire, ‘an almost identical horizontal distribution,” but he doubts, 
and with reason, whether the same will hold good of all other counties. 
The subject is one which will furnish abundant scope for further 
enquiry. 
Finally, while congratulating the ‘‘ Recorder” upon the improvement 
in the later reports, which shows that the errors of the earlier ones have 
been carefully taken to heart, it remains only to recommend the Club 
earnestly to those botanists, who, having time for the work, desire to 
have some object in view to supply a constant stimulus to their labours, 
by showing them “what there is to do, and how they can help to do it.” 
The former objections against the members, that they were mere 
*conscienceless grubbers-up of rarities,’ or ‘‘a kind of Co-operative 
Society for the repetition of already published plant-stations,” have 
been disproved, if they ever required disproving, by the really useful 
work which the Society has done, and the way in which it has done it. 
W. B. Grove, B.A. 
On the Real Character of the Early Records of Genesis. By the Rev. 
Rayner WrintersotHam, M.A. London: W. 3B. Whittingham and 
Co., 1878. 
Tuts excellent little pamphlet is written evidently with a sincere desire 
to smooth the difficulties which beset the subject; better still, the writer 
has shaken himself free from the fetters which usually clog the well- 
meant but futile efforts of his fellow-workers in the same field, and boldly 
accepts the established truths of Science. He recognises the importance 
of these early records as lying at the root of Old and New Testament 
theology. Also, thattheir ‘‘ extreme difficulty ” ‘‘ exposes them to assaults, 
made in the name of Science, which are, to a large extent, unanswered 
and unanswerable.” 
