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made to his vapehnie Teratology nor to his papers on Conifere. 
It is to be regretted that the dates of birth and death, so 
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mi his style aj ee tends to journalese: an example of eac 
Ww. 
will be found in this sentence about W. W. Newbould, which will 
astonish densa ‘al knew his history: “ He ve eerie, of 
any value, preferring the life of a country clergyman to the 
exploits of the pen (p. 515). Green has evidently fia not 
in this instance) made copious use of the Biographical Index of 
British Botanists, which, had he lived m wits the preface, would 
le 
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for Munby (p. 434, thrice); ‘‘ Neven”’ for Niven (p. 396, thrice) ; 
300t” for Boott (p. 406) ; “ rng ee for Bunbury (p. 551, 
té (p. 
(p. 175) ; 4 cnet Hoes peer (p. 587)—the list might be 
does inclu all of thes 
Her there we moe slight inaccuracies and insufficient 
information—eg, it is stated that Ray’ s herbarium “ contained 
type species asteh-¢ of nee Synopsis” (p. 512)—this does not 
_— fs 569) are stated to be ‘‘on the lines of the old Hortus 
which of course is not the case; the account of 
ets 8 neietnas, . 154) is very incom lete—it contains no 
Srpesioe as to the fact that this was the foundation of the National 
erbarium, in which it is still preserved. There is considerable 
Hapnoegeet | in the space allotted to the various branches of the 
subject—the Cryptogams are insufficiently treated—and = the 
biographical sketches, the paragraphing is not well done, and 
the writing is sometimes slipshod. But the fact ‘that j in pees ai 
respects the book might be better does not detract from its general 
excellence, and the favourable opinion, expressed at the beginning 
of this notice, of the work as a whole is not modified by the matters 
of detail to which we have called atten pe, An excellent portrait 
of the author faces the title-page. 
oe NEWS, de. 
Yat, and the para foray held in September at Doncaster: in 
peg case a full list of the miapeoien, found is given, some of which 
re new to science . new to this — Miss G. Lister 
on a 
