1886.] BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 69 
Gilia, to include Collomia, is a very vapatie od pre i and naturally some 
changes in nomenclature follow. The revision of the section of Phacelia, 
which soins | es seats vise Neo- Maz icahe: etc., has brought viet to some of 
us whose spec aid no attention to the o group char 
The Se ay group of Borraginacez takes on no te ie appear- 
ance, as already noted in these pages, and the genus  Kryaiedia pte es most 
its ‘gah 
he genus Mimulus i - erg revised in view of Mr. E. L. Greene’s new ar- 
rangement a Bull. Calif. Ac 
€ most important shane have already appeared ry Shige oh e 
cations, and chiefly in the Proceedings of the American A .. - 
earnest wish of bas tsss fade that the author he has so fully ona cenies this 
portant group of Dicotyledons may be given thet ae and strength to finish the 
great work of which this forms so important a par 
English Worthies: Charles Darwin. By Grant Allen. 16°. pp- vi, 201. New 
York: D. Appleton & Co. 1885. 
rding to his announcement in the preface, rie y ics Allen makes no 
cial relations, except so far as these touch his pcientifi c renin He deals with 
his position as a thinker and worker, eto ed out especially his relation to the 
doctrine of evolution and to those who had preceded him in its develo opment 
and advocacy. Prominent among ice o were preparing Sh way for Dar 
win and his work are mentioned Bu n, St. otra beam: e, Era eats Darwin, 
t 
o part 
of the book makes a more pleasing impression upon the reader gre the chapter 
entitled “The Period of Incubation,” in which the a suthor dwells on the patience 
and painstaking of the author of the Ori igin ‘A esi Darwin’s was en ius 
of the type € 80 well described by some one as being wa faculty for work.” T 
t how ri as h 
work, to thick its a nemies can only oppose a upported denial. 
Mr. en takes no pains to eeneent ike ‘tact that his doaictloiener of the theory 
that of its great expounder. The undercurrent of extreme mate- 
boo 
: whole w eee 
ing and opportunities of knowing are perhaps quite “ to Mr. Allen’s, who 
body mawilling to cept materialism as the outcome of t e Darwinian theory. 
ba in respect for ak opinions would have well become the writer 4 this at- 
active volum 
Ue itomoleaare Athmung ; von W. Pfeffer. Extracted from ——? pp. 
3-685, 
This ex extract oo without the least intimation of its source, ot _ 
tunate omission. In it Dr. Pfeffer continues the discussion on intramolecular 
mapiration, the ae experiments being based on the salle of our country- 
D. W. ; Wilson, to whom full acknowledgement is made. Fn ; 
cumton of the ; method ‘of experimentation used, t together with a figure o 
