BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 151 
Tue Gardeners’ Chronicle prints an account of a lecture recently 
delivered by Professor Johnson before the Royal _—— Society 
which he eems sufficiently remarkable to dese rve reprodue on. The 
subject was ‘“* Some Aspect of Modern Botany.” ‘ He p pointed out 
that soientitie botan s from several standpoints its can scientific 
aspect, and the aca Wet of the Br se schoo of botanists was 
less scientific than their co-workers the ans. From the point 
of view of the field botanist it was also “dissimilar in which they 
found themselves. There is some hope that order ar finally be 
expected owing to the labours of the editors of the Indea Kewensis, _ 
&o.. T ubject of ae ee was aon to at length, 
and the early labours of PR. n enumerated, Brown was one of 
those who helped to lay in a Britain the foundation of modern 
vegetable acaiology, and his labours in systematic botany were by 
no means meagre. In speaking of Tobacco culture, the Professor said 
that heavy mieseeweas | manuring injured the flavour of Tobacco 
Mr. R. Lioyp Praxeer hopes to publish, early in 1901, a weak 
in which he proposes to show the distribution of flowering plants 
the deficiencies i in each of the county lists. A number of common 
plants still remain unrecorded from. all but a few counties, and 
nty. Information should be addressed to him at the National 
Talis of Ireland, Dublin 
D DE Istavanrrt, Professor of Botany in the Royal 
pects! of Hungary, is emer under the title ‘‘ Fungorum 
n Pannonium observatum Brevis Historia a Carolo Clusio Abrebate 
interest, and is bentifall executed. The rh are divide 
two series, of esculent and non-esculent genera; the local | ames, 
with details of size, soleue &c., are given, and should be of great 
aid in determining his species; but it is to be hoped that Proteisee 
Istavanffi will add a good index with the modern names 
Mr. W. A. Crarxe has in the press a revised edition of his 
‘‘ First Records of British Flowering Plants. 
Tae number just to hand of the dAnales del Instituto Médico 
Nacional "of Mexico (vol. iv. no. 7, dated July, 1899) contains an 
interesting article on ‘‘ El Herbario de Berlandier,” with an account 
of his ey by Dr. G. V. Alpocer, the keeper of the herbarium of 
the Institu 
