192 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [avcusr 
As these will have access to the library mentioned, it will be, for all prac- : 
tical purposes, a free library— Book Reviews, August. 
AT THE LAST meeting of the Linnean Society, just before the summer 
vacation, a paper was presented by Professor D. T. MacDougal on the réla- 
joint presentation before the society of the subject of the origin of species by 
Charles Darwin and Alfred Russell Wallace. The gathering in consequence 
took on something of the character of an ovation to Mr. Wallace. 
THE DEATH of William Hamilton Gibson in the latter part of 
removes an acute observer and an artist of great excellence as an illustralon 
His first work was done for the American A griculturist, while his later work 
in Harper's Magazine and in popular books is familiar to all. His receat 
studies were chiefly upon the relations of flowers and insects, upon which 
had prepared a series of lectures, illustrated by most ingenious me 
charts, showing the insects and flower parts in action. He had already ¢ 
much to popularize (in its best sense) the study of plants in the field, a gre 
needed work cut short by his untimely death in middle life. 
Part of the elaborate gateway designed by Inigo Jones, including t 
of Charles I and Charles II, was added later. It is a curious f 
The lease is still in force without alteration, the last renewal in ue 
1880, being for sixty years. There is no danger, as reported 1 
journals, that the lease will ever be closed or changed, unless It IS 
of the University, “ 
