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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, de. 
We have received the first number of a new Brussels publication 
entitled Jcones Selecte Horti Thenensis, to be devoted to plants 
which have flowered in the collections of M. van den Bossahe at 
Tirlemont. The descriptions are by Dr. de Wildeman, and the 
excellent plates by M. d’Apreval. The present instalment contains 
figures and descriptions of Hakea suaveolens Br., Trymalium Bil- 
lardiert Fenzl, Muraltia miata DC., Ayathosma villosa Willd., and 
Oxalis Ortgiesi Regel. 
E Report and Transactions of the South Eastern Union of 
Scientific Societies for 1899 contains an ie esting ‘‘ Botanical 
Bibliography of ~ South-eastern Count by Mr. Boulger 
which is a revision and extension of Dr. sees s Bibliography” 
(published i in this diag for 1874) so far as the counties of Hants, 
Kent, Middlesex, Surrey, and Sussex are concerne 
Gzorce Dowxer, F.G.S., who died suddenly at Ramsgate on 
Sept. 22, was born at Margate on April 2, 1828. He well 
known as a naturalist and antiquary, and especially as a scaler 
and paid some side to local botany; he conducted a botanical 
Sandw 
Falearia Rivini, which he had observed in the 
locality os — years, and his help is acknowledged in the 
of K 
XANDER Wauxace, M.D., who died at Colchester on Oct. 7 & 
the e age of Oi. was born nin ‘Penden: and educated at a a 
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and their Culture—which was published in "1878, and in a secon 
oo #5 1879; but does not seem to have done any strictly 
rk, 
We have also to record the south of two veteran British 
botanists— sts—Wit1am Pampnin, who died at Llandderfel, near Bala, 
on Aug. 9th, in hie ninety-third year ; and Tuomas Bruces I'LowEr, 
who died at Bath on og 7th at the age of eighty-three. We hope 
to give some account of them in an ep issue, and also of Grant 
ALLEN, who died at Hindhead on Oct. 25th. 
