BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO. 455 
r. Freperto Srrarron sends us a pretty little i volume 
contaitine a chatty account bi the Wild Flowers of the Isle of Wight, 
which we agree with him in thinking may be usefal ‘ visitors. 
cially as to Brambles and Roses. If it were not for the capital 
map, the twenty pages of which the booklet consists would seem 
penewnat dear at 1s. net: it is published at the County Press, 
Newport 
Mr. 0. R. P. Anprews, who has contributed interesting notes on 
Channel Islands plants to our pages, is leaving England for Western 
Australia, where he has been tapers first chlor of the new 
ot the 
oe will find a wide field for botanical pm in his 
undings. 
me regret to record the sudden death, from heart affection, of 
Epwarp Gerorex, which took place at his house at Forest Hill on ~ 
the 10th of October. His retiring disposition made him little known 
even to the students of those groups of plants to — he yi 
valued 
himself; but the few who knew him him true frien 
Mr. George first “devia himself to aston of ish o made large 
and valuable collections. For many years he gave himself wholly 
to the study of alge, and spent his holidays in localities where he 
could study and gather these plants. . He has left very extensive 
collections, all beautifully laid out and carefully localized. woe 
Mee he ees Seca the send pis first in the spring and th 
n the late r, and so of his sharp-eyed, intelligent 
ees ey ieee aa eg ae may be gathered from Mr. 
Batters’s memoir on British Marine Algex in tke last anther of 
this sen p. 272, &c. In recording three species new to the 
algal flora of Britain, one the type of a new genus, which were sent 
to him bs Mr. George, Mr. Batters says:—‘‘I have dedicated the 
species (fh fae Georgii) to my friend Mr. George, an inde- 
fatigable collector whom, as this paper proves, I am deeply 
nificent specimens, of ‘mde scouting eetensd 
for many “sce years, is little known to botanists; but 
t is in v t I have repeatedly urged my friend to publish 
his notes.” 
Dr. K. Scuumann, of the Botanisches Museum, Berlin, will be 
glad if authors will send him a copy of their publications, and 
especially reprints of botanical articles published in the Proceedings, 
Transactions, and other Journals of learned societies, in order that 
such literature may be reviewed promptly for Just’s Botanischer 
Jahresb bericht. 
