144 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 
Further recognitions were the dedication to Lyell of a botanical 
work by Hooker, of another by Lindley, of the Australian moss- 
genus Lyellia by Robert Brown, of Orthotrichum Lyellii by Hooker 
and Taylor, and Opegr ne Lyellii by Sir James E. Smith. In 1825 
cia returned to vi paternal home and devoted himself chiefly to 
the study of Dante, in connection with which he published two 
works. It should rs added that his eldest son was the distinguished 
geologist, Sir Charles Lyell (1797-1875). For the acquisition of 
Lyell’s agree ye British Museum is indebted to the kindness 
of Mrs. K. M. Lyell and Sir Leonard rae ll. The great value of the 
collection, aiid 0 rises upwards of 1500 specimens, centres In 
the originals of the ro gathered by Lyell, and in the authentic 
oer imens from Hooker, Taylor, Miss Hutchins, George Don, and 
ers 
ORO a oa, who died on the 4th of December last, was 
one of ‘the most distinguished of Italian systematic botanists. He 
was director of the Botanic Garden at Florence, editor of the 
Nuovo Giornale Botanico Italiano, a man of considerable vitaliel 
attainments, and an elegant classical scholar. Prof. Caruel was 
responsible for the continuation of Parlatore’s Flora Italiana, an 
imposing work, begun in 1848, and still unfinished, as voluminous 
in bulk as it is luminous in treatment of the su ject. His Pensiert 
sulla Tassinomia Botanica, a work published in 1881, is remarkable 
for the philosophical grasp of the subject, and classical vigour of 
the style in which it is written. We hope to give some account 0 
his life and work in a subsequent number. 
Tue second Las eee Jan. 20) of Mr. C. R. Orcutt’s Boe! 
printed and expensive (—1 dollar for eich te pages—) fi 
of the Cactacee ov ‘ths United States shows no improvement sie ay 
respect upon the first, which we noticed er year (p. 71). The 
addition of certain sets and ugly cuts, which apparently vsti from 
a seedsman’s catalogue, add to the unattractiveness of the w 
Mr. Joun Lex, who died on the 20th of January, in his ihekys 
fourth year, was the last surviving representative of the once well- 
known firm of Lee and Kennedy, who more than a hundred years 
ago did so much to introduce horticultural and botanical novelties 
- as 
John Lee that the Botanical Department is indebted for the valuable 
series of Seawind of plants by Francis Masson, to which reference 
is made in this Journal for 1885, p. 227. 
Mr. ri W. Carr publishes a long list of Nottinghamshire 
Fungi in the Brosnan a of the Nottingham Naturalists’ Society 
for 1897-8 
THE Me Essks. Groves are making steady progress with the new 
edition of Babington’s Manual. The printing of Lord de Tabley’s 
Flora os Cheshire is practically completed, and this, like Mr. Han- 
bury’s Flora of K ent, will be issued in time for use during the 
coming summer. 
