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the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, but contains other matters of interest 
regarding the distribution of critical species, and notes by Messrs. 
Beeby, Marshall, Linton, and other botanists. We presume that 
there is some good reason for keeping this organization distinct 
from the older Botanical Exchange Club, otherwise it would seem 
that a union of forces would be in every respect advantageous. 
Perer Gray, who died at Dumfries on June 8rd, was born at 
that place on Oct. 18,1818. At an early age he adopted journalism 
as a career, and at length found his way to London, where he was 
at one time a familiar figure among amateur botanists. He had a 
good general knowledge of British plants, and a fairly representative 
herbarium. Gray contributed papers on Dumfries plants to the 
Phytologist (vols. i. (1842) and iii. (1848) ), and sent marked 
catalogues to Mr. Watson, which were utilized by him for Topo- 
graphical Botany. He also wrote the accounts of lichens and 
mosses for the ‘* Young Collector” series of handbooks (1886). 
We have received from Messrs. Warne & Co. the first number 
Mr. James Fraser Rosson, of Hull, who is engaged upon 4 
Flora of the Kast Riding of Yorkshire, points out that, owing to 
identity of initials, he is liable to be confused with the late James 
Frodsham Robinson, of Frodsham, Cheshire. It was to the latter 
that reference was made on p. 277 of our last issue. 
Tue Rey. W. Moyle Rogers’ Handbook of British Rubi will be 
published by Messrs. Duckworth in the autumn or early winter. 
Wing to ¢. g, to a 
the further pursuit of the hobby from which he has obtained such 
in 1891 that Mr, Jameson gave to the world the firstfruits of his 
study—Key to the Genera and Species of British Mosses. Two years 
later he published his beautifully Illustrated Guide to British Mosses, 
which was in 1896 j j i : 
J ameson’s Student's Handbook of British Mosses. The herbarium 
contains some 1800 choice specimens arranged with characteristic 
neatness and care, 
