192 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
the production of those pigments in plants; and Miss M. Wheldale 
continues her summary of our present knowledge of the chemistry 
of the Mendelian factors for flower-colo 
Pomology, by Mr. E. A. Bunyard; an account of the Iris leaf- 
blotch disease (Heterosporium gracile Sacc.), by Mr. J. K. Rams- 
bottom ; and a delightful essay on books for an amateur gardener’s 
library, ‘by Mr. E. A. Bowles. There are also numerous papers of 
purely horticultural interest, as well as a report of the proceedings 
of the various Committees of the Society. 
WE are indebted to M. R. Chodat for a copy of his interesting 
biography of the late Winn1am Barpey (Barbey-Boissier) (1842- 
1914) reprinted from the Bulletin de la Société Botanique de Généve 
for December last. e notice is accompanied by an excellen 
portrait in colour reproduced from an oil painting by the botanist’s | 
eldest son. A slight correction may be made as to the materials 
for Gaudin’s Flora Helvetica, which it is stated that Barbey 
obtained by exchange from the Department of Botany of the 
British Museum: the exchange, we believe, was effected through 
Sir Joseph Hooker, representing Kew, Gaudin’s plants being in- 
cluded in the Gay herbarium which came into Sir Joseph’s hands 
for the purpose of selection and disposal. 
THE first part of the second section of vol. v. of the Flora 
Cspandis which appeared in April, contains the ee orders : 
Thymeleacee, by Mr. C. H. Wright; Pengacee and Geissolomacee, 
y Miss K. L. Stephens, of the South African Callata, Cape Town; 
Portishead by Mr. T. A. Sprague ; Santalacee, Lire’ A.W. Hill; 
in the genus Thesium, in the “last-named order, 128 s species are 
enumerated, a large ee of which were first described by 
Mr. Hill in the Kew Bulletin 
WE understand that a Deparihant sad Plant lots 83 i 
Great Britain and the Colonies has bee bli 
under the superintendence of Mr. A. D. sein onolog aaine 
will be familiar to our readers in connection with algology. 
He will have the assistance of W. B. Brierley, who h 
recently raisers on economic botany at the Victoria University, 
Mancheste 
