BOTANICAL NEWS. 191 
Pringsheim's ‘Jahrbücher für wissenchaftliche Botanik" for 1872 
contains the following memoirs :—“ On Pilobolus,” by lein, with 8 
plates. “ On the Pollen of EM longifolia, "Mn d by L. Jurányi, 
with 4 plates. “On. the Size of the Wood-cells of Pinus sylvestris,” 
by K. Sanio, and “On some peculiar spherical Deren in the Epider- 
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yG. , with one plat. 
In the first part of a new oin periodical, The. ‘Transactions of 
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revious year. E. R. Trautvetter ee icta. on the plants 
collected by Radde in Tureomania and Transcaucasia in 1870, and a 
catalogue of the Phanerogamie plants of the islands Nova Zembla, . 
105 in number; and Regel describes some new species in cultivation 
in the gardens, and gives useful oii ions of the genera Orategus, 
Dracena, Horkelia, Loris, and Aza 
The 3rd and 4th parts of decas ‘Thesaurus Literature Botanicz ’ 
have recently appeared, and carry on the catalogue of authors to * Tour- 
nefort.’ We notice that Merrett’s ‘ Pinax’ is entirely omitted, though 
omae s works find a place. The entire want of cross-references is 
serious drawback in the usefulness of this valuable and indeed 
Sidi tenexble 00 
ave received the report for 1871 of the Rugby School Natural 
History Society. Mr. Kitchener, the president, contributes a table 
showing the heat, rainfall, and early or late flowering, deduced from nume- 
rous observations. in 18 s The report of the botanical section, signed 
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by H. G. Wau spec s the new discoveries in the neighbourhood, 
and gives an dee cua m of late-flowering plants, from which it 
appears that as many as 95 species were in flower on November 1st, or 
a few days la 
er. 
y Flowers, by the Rev. James Harris, M.A., Head Master of the 
Cathedral Grammar School, Chester, contains a popula ar description of 
the wild flowers of the month, kie cid in the neighbourhood of 
media the nty. 
At the wn meeting of the Litera ary Pd Philosophical Society of Man- 
chester the following naturalists were elected honorary members of the 
Society :— Prof. Huxley ; P Tum Julius Sachs; Prof. Schimper; M. A. 
Trécul; and Mr. H. C. Wat 
à Professor de Bary will be eee at Halle by Dr. Krauss, of 
iin death of Louis vereri de Brébisson, at ilie age of 74 yea 
pril 26t Best known as a botanist, ur 
iderable attention to Geolo ogy 
new ate of Hymenoptera. o r > 
mandie,” of which a fourth edition appeared in 1869, the deceased 
botanist was well and favourably known to many students of our flor ra. 
