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Linnsean Society and a Member of the Royal Irish Academy. 

 His work in developing the Department of Forestry at 

 Cambridge is well known to members of the Society. He 

 was the first to hold the appointment of Reader in Forestry 

 at Cambridge, and it is interesting to note that he is now the 

 first to hold the Professorship at the Royal College for Ireland, 

 which has only recently been established. 



Mr William Dawson, M.A., B.Sc, Lecturer in Forestry at 

 Aberdeen University, was offered and has accepted the appoint- 

 ment of Reader in Forestry at Cambridge. He studied forestry 

 at the principal Forestry Schools in Germany, Austria, and 

 France, and was appointed Lecturer in Forestry at Aberdeen 

 six years ago. He was the first to hold this important 

 appointment, and has been solely responsible for the develop- 

 ment of the Department at Aberdeen. The transference of 

 Mr Dawson to Cambridge is a great loss to Scottish forestry, 

 and his absence will be keenly felt and regretted. At the 

 same time we feel certain he takes with him the best wishes 

 of all Scottish foresters, and especially of the members of this 

 Society, for success in his new sphere of activity. 



REVIEWS AND NOTICES OF BOOKS. 



Illustrations of Conifers. Vol. Ill, By H. Clinton-Baker. 

 Printed privately at Hertford, 1913. 

 The third volume of Mr H. Clinton-Baker's Illustrations of 

 Conifers deals for the most part with the rarer genera, but also 

 includes a few species of the less known pines, silver firs and 

 spruces omitted in the previous volumes. Most of the plants 

 described are little known in British gardens, though many of 

 them are perfectly hardy and well deserving of cultivation, 

 even in Scotland. Of the plants figured the writer grows 

 successfully Juniperus oaidentalis, Jun. scopulorum, Jitn. recurva, 

 Prmnnopitys elegans, Cepkalotaxus driipacea and Fortunei, two of 

 the Torreyas, and several others in one of the coldest parts 

 of Scotland ; and doubtless many more would flourish in more 

 favoured districts. To see fine specimens of many of the 

 trees described in this volume, a visit would be necessary to 

 such gardens as those of Rovelli Fratelli at Pallanza, on Lake 



