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_ the end 
40 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Journal of the Bombay Natural History soi extending on the 
years 1899—1904. He there treats of 34 genera, containing 211 
species; sixteen of the species are new, “ed nineteen others are 
figured because of their rarity or obscurity. Varieties Mr. oo 
would not admit; he suppressed them if trivial. and raised them 
specific rank ‘ when distinct enough from the 80- called types to be 
—, described and constant in character” (op. cit. xv.. p. 417). 
opé received numerous specimens from the following collec- 
ors —E. W. Trotter, T. Bliss, J. F. Duthie, P. W. aur + 
... J. C. McDonnell, H. F, Blanford, R. W. ‘Maclooi 
J. 8. Gamble, and others 
‘* Appenpix I, 1905,” “of the Kew Bulletin, containing a list of 
the seeds available for exchange with botanic gardens, appeared last 
mont e volumes for 1900, 1902-4, consist solely of appendices 
unique feature in periodical literature! The volume for 
1901 still awaits completion 
Tue Journal of the Kew Guild for 1904 has for its frontispiece an 
excellent portrait of Mr. N. E. Brown, accompanied by a brief 
memoir. ‘* Notoriety has no charm” for Mr. Brown—we i 
magine 
that the same might be said of most of those to whom the term is 
applied in its more usually accepted sense. The ins ot 
Aer letters from ‘old Kewites” in various parts of the 
orld, as ‘well as obituary notices and portraits, inclading’ those of 
Kitts, ¥ West Indies, on “Fas 3, 1904, after but three days’ illness. 
He had kept as New Year's. Eve at a friend's hou 
Herr Grore Rorn’s Die europiiischen Same and il. 
Lief. 9,10; Raipis, 1904; pp. 385-640, tabb. xxxi.-l.) is now 
so far advanced that the e publication of one more part will complete 
the work. The two parts recently issued contain the Br achythecia- 
cea, Amblystegiacea, and Hypnacee. The author's method of figuring 
= the is much to be recommended; but it is a pity that the 
res are sometimes so scattered. For r instance, the two species 
ro Bryhnia have to be ag on eae re xliis and and xxxix:, and the 
three species =f a XXXvil., xlv., and Ix. Se 
to the Albany Moicaie: and will be incorporated with the already 
extensive collection existing there. _ 
‘A Few copies of the Second Supplement (1898-1902) to the 
H1 aet Index of British Botanists will be issued in pamphlet 
» price 1s. 6d., and may be hd from the publishers of this 
peel The reprint contains additions and corrections to the list 
as originally printed in these pages. 
_ We hope to begin next month the issue of a su lem, 
second edition of To opegraphical et, which has ds psenle 
Mr. roo 11908 It will contain the additional records up to 
