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journal in which beginners may get hints as. to methods of work, 
and which is open to contributions hardly adapted for the more 
learned periodicals or such as have a wider scope. We may there- 
fore recommend to the notice of such students The Bryologist, a 
small American om edited by Dr. A. J. Grout, author of several 
valuable publications on North American mosses, which is published 
quarterly by the Fern Bulletin Co., Binghamton, N. Y., at 25 cents 
a year. So large a proportion of our species are common to both 
this country and the U. , that even beginners will find much in 
this little magazine to interest them. For example, out of 203 
species given in a key to the North American Dicrana in the 
January number, fourteen are British.—H. M. D, 
Mr. Peter Ew nounces for publication a work on ‘ The 
Popegenghieal Botany’ of the West of Scotland,” to consist of about 
200 pages, which will be sent to subscribers post-free for 1s. 2d. 
ea should be sent to Mr. Ewing at The Frond, Uddingston, 
We e glad to announce the publication of Mr. William 
Hoagson’s s "Flora of Cumberland, which we hope to notice in our 
next issue 
THE aes issue (vol. v. part 2) of the Transactions of the Natural 
History y “tae he of Glasgow contains papers on Ayrshire micro-fungi 
by Messrs. T. A. Scott and D. A. Boyd; ‘the Mosses of Campsie 
Glen,” Ze Messrs. James Murray and R. D. Wilkie; a note on 
Raspberry roots”’ and a paper on ‘Limits to the range of Plant- 
species,” by Mr. G. F. Scott Elliot 
WE are sorry to note that the Bulletin of Miscellaneous Information 
issued at Kew has again suffered ee no number having appeared 
since the November issue. We are thus prevented from giving our 
usual list of the actual dates of publication of the numbers formin 
the volume for 1898. Meanwhile it is curious to note that ‘ Ap- 
pendix I. 1899,” pit the date ‘ 1899 ” upon the wrapper, was 
issued in November, 1 ! 
wert the menos Pt Herbarium of Charles Lyell the British 
seum has secured a very valuable and rpc EL teee ess” 
Charles Lyell was born 767 ) and died (1849) at Kinnordy, i 
Forfarshire. From 1797 to 1825 he resided at Stoney Cross, in 
ire, and ity was at this time that he rendered his greatest 
services to botany by studying diligently the mosses, hepatics, an 
lichens in the New Forest and in Scotland. Sir William Hooker 
was then Sra an al publishing his beautiful classical work on 
the British Jungermannia, which set the hepatics on a footing of 
their own as a distinct class of plants; and he was in frequent 
communication with Lye a How highly he appreciated Lyell’s 
industry and assistance is shown by his —— of the species 
Jungermannia Lyellii to eg speaking of him ‘‘a gentleman 
whose unwearied researches almost every aes of this work bears 
caaaaivsial encaier, and to whom I am happy in being able thus 
publicly to express my gratitude and esteem” (Brit. Jung. t. 77). 
