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Xw>r. Giorn. Hot. Ital.—L. Caldesi, < Flora Faventinae tentamen ' 

 (contd.)— E. de Thuemen, 'Fungi aliquot novi in terra Kirghisorum 

 leoti.'— A. Jatta, ' Liclienum Italiae nieridionalis, mampulus tertius.' 

 — L. Macchiati, 'Movements in stamens of Ruta bracteosa and 

 Smymium rotund if olium.' 



Fl ora , —Diagnoses of Thiimen's ' Mycotheca Universalis.' 

 J. E. Duby, 'New or imperfectly-known Foreign Mosses.' — G. 

 Strobl, ' Flora of the Nebrodes.' 



t&otamcai Nctos* 



The Eeport for the Botanical Exchange Club upon the plants 

 collected by its members during 1879 is nearly ready for the 

 printer, and now that the last notes have been received respecting 

 some or the referred plants, the members of the Club may shortly 

 expect their return parcels. Notwithstanding the unfavourable 

 state of the weather last season, there is a fair supply of plants to 

 distribute, and we hope to give the readers of this Journal extracts 

 from the report as soon as it is published. 



We also understand that the 1879 Eeport of the Botanical 

 Record Club, Phanerogamic and Cryptogamic, is in a f orw ^ r £ 

 state. It was at one time feared that the work of this useful Club 

 might come to an end, but an appeal to the existing membership 

 has reconstituted it, and very shortly the revised rules and list of 

 officers will be issued to its members. 



We are glad to hear that the Catalogue of Vegetable Technology 

 (mentioned in our last number, p. 252) is being edited by Mb. B. 

 Daydon Jackson for the Index Society. It will be issued at as 

 early a date as possible consistent with the extensive revision and 

 additions absolutely required. 



The sixth annual conference of the Cryptogamic Society of 

 Scotland is to be held at Glasgow in the third or fourth week ot 

 this month ; and the usual meeting of English mycologists will be 

 held at Hereford in the week beginning October 4th. 



Mr. W. Fawcett, B.Sc, has been appointed an Assistant ,in 

 the Department of Botany, British Museum. The removal of this 

 Department to the new Natural History Museum is now in active 

 progress. The official title and address of the new building is, 

 " British Museum (Natural History), South Kensington, S.W. 



A complete ' Catalogue of the Diatoinacese ' is announced for 

 publication, by Mb. Frederick Habibshaw, F.R.L.S. }^ J? 

 appear in four parts, large octavo, and will be published in New 

 York ; the price, to English subscribers, is 5s. 4d. per part. 



