64 BOTANICAL NEWS. 



Aden in the Government vessel which carries the annual subsidy 

 to the chiefs from the British Government whereby its protectorate 

 of the island is secured. Mr. Alexander Scott, a young and able 

 gardener from the Edinburgh Eoyal Gardens, accompanies Prof. 

 Balfour. The zoological and geological collections, when worked 

 out, are to be placed in the British Museum, and the botanical 

 collections in the herbaria at Kew and the British Museum. 



Mr. Andrew Taylor has succeeded Mr. John Sadler as Assistant 

 Secretary to the Botanical Society of Edinburgh. 



Mr. Spencer Le Marchant Moore has resigned his post in the 

 Kew Herbarium. All communications should be addressed to him 

 at Arundel House, Lewisham, S.E. 



We are glad to learn that Mr. T. E. Archer Briggs' ' Flora of 

 Plymouth,' to the proposed publication of which we referred in our 

 last volume, is already in the press. We extract the following 

 indications of the style and scope of the work from the 

 prospectus :— The author will give the results of his own 

 observations on the vegetation of this area, combined with all the 

 existing records of importance concerning it that he has been able 

 to collect. He will give the class of each species as a native, or 

 otherwise, of the tract dealt with ; state the nature of the spots 

 where it grows, together with its comparative frequency and 

 distribution therein. These particulars will sometimes be followed 

 by critical remarks and other observations on the plant, as a 

 Plymouth species. The introductory portion of the work will 

 comprise a sketch of the physical features and surface conditions 

 ot the area of its geology, river drainage, and climatology. This 

 portion will also include a short account of the progress of botanical 



wnrt fl /T te ! atl I e t\ ^Wfo *** *s neighbourhood. The 

 work will be illustrated by a coloured map to show the six 

 botanical districts founded on the river drainage, as well as the 



t Z ZS m0S \f i tL t If 10118 reCOrded *>' the P^ts. The price 

 at a t7t« T /i ^ h ^'rsnmea ; subscribers' names to be sent 

 at once to the author, Eichmond Villa, Plymouth. 



NfltJnTi .*£ ?? e ni 0f i ^ " Eppiug Forest and County of Essex 

 Wft^rfW "Hi °r lb ii an associatio » ™ established on the 

 Srv Z LT 1 f ° r he f udy and inve ^igation of the natural 

 a teSnbi3' f c }f^SJ of the county of Essex (special 



o Enni i. To?.! I'M the ^ amia ' fl ora, geology, and antiquities 

 °at2 tlJ?n^;- the l )U S lca tion of the results of such investi- 



othei nub catio- 7 f a h ? rary ° f WOrks of local ^^rest and 

 ofj Wo5Z£nT N^ C i 1 ' ? atl ° n ° f a mUSeUm ; and the diffusion 

 Colf Z7(S» V 1 M C16nCe T aDd An tiquities. Mr. William 



Cole, Laurel Cottage, Buekhurst Hill, is the Secretary of the Club. 

 Prof. Ascherson, of Berlin, has undertaken a journey to Egypt. 

 'mar T s™ %l^* J? *«**«*> on January 22nd. 



Mr. Marshall Ward, who has been c 



ileputed by the Colonial 



S^»*«ffiftMS 



