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and append their names to the necessary new combination. Perhaps 
their action is intended as a protest against the too common practice 
in an opposite direction. 
Tue first two parts of Mr. Pearson’s Hepatice of the British Isles 
(price 7s. 6d. each coloured, 5s. uncoloured) have just been pub- 
lished by Messrs. Lovell Reeve & & Co. This is by far the most 
elaborate work on this neglected group of plants which has appeared 
since Hooker’s British J a in 1816. While in the fulness 
of text and illustrations it bids fair to be of great service to the 
species, nor any synopsis of the genera. The descriptions of the 
species are very full, and are followed by valuable notes pointing 
out the relationship and differences ot allied plants, with ee 
measurements and a detailed account of distribution. ach 
is devoted to a single species, the sed plant, both natural re 
and enlarged, with numerous details of leaves, bracts, cell-structure, 
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arrangement of the work is to our thinking unsatisfactory, an 
bibliography lacks completeness. We hope later to notice the work 
at greater length. 
We are glad to announce the publication of a new part (vol. v. 
(pt. 1) of the Hlora of Tropical Africa. It is entirely devoted to, 
but does not complete, the enumeration of the Acanthacee by Messrs. 
C.B ke and I. H. Burkill, and contains a large a dee of 
new species aaa one new gen nus— Acanthopale Clarke, which co 
prises the African species assigned to Strobilanthes by Bentham aie 
Hooker 
Tan Report of the Director of the Botanical Survey of India for 
1898-99 announces two interesting works as in Fae ation. The 
be illustrated, will be extremely useful, not only for the residents 
at Simla, but also at all hill stations between Murree on shag Tal. 
A Manual of the Flora of the Forest School Circle, by B o Upen- 
dronath Kanjilal, Instructor at the Dehra Forest School: ‘Will give 
descriptions of all the trees and shrubs occurring within the limits 
of the School Circle, and will include Dehr a Dun and the Siwalik 
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ten ve a native of India 
EORGE BucHANAN ame was born at Clapton, Middlesex, 
ee April 2 26, 1814. He was articled to Pugin, and worked as an 
