88 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
specimen of Linnea which was sent to Gronovius and on which 
the latter based his genus is preserved in the National Herbarium. 
niform with the foregoing in price and appearance, and issued 
by the same publishers, is In Wind and Wild, by Eric Parker. In 
this the botanist is less fully catered for, although the writer has 
e is n 
andi ask ‘‘ Are there any fritillaries left at Oxford?” The Iffley 
meadows seem as full of them as ever—a thing to be wondered ue 
for long before the flowers expand, folk walk out from Oxford o 
Sunday afternoons, returning—as we saw them last ee 3 
handfuls of plants, er with the bulb attached, which are 
only in pale and immature bud. ey comes out in water,” 
said a small urchin who Br lhe us & Pi when we remonstrated 
with him on his barbaric proceeding, and we wondered whether 
this could be: true. It is with birds, we think, that Mr, Parker is 
most at home, and it is on them that he lavishes a certain dainty 
humour which pervades the book, and of which a good example 
will. os coring in the description of sparrows on pp. 131-2. The 
book is one which every nature-lover will enjoy, none the less 
etaahe of it its literary form; and it has an excellent index—an aid 
to eee too often absent from books of this kind. 
“eyed oc OBITUARY. 
) LoyDELL, who died at Acton on Jan. Ist, was a keen 
Baa he studied geology with Mr. Beeby Thompson, of Ane rate 
on, and took a great interest i in the local fauna and flora... During 
oe nty years’ residence in Middlesex Mr. Loydell paid ait 
attention: to plant distribution in that county. On the formation 
of the Acton Natural Histo nea? Society in 1901, he was appointed, 
in conjunction with Mr, C. ra ice 
“dis ide nd with him made a systematic investigation of the 
Middl ra. @ many new records he accumulated will 
doubtless receive dué recognition in the new Rede of the county 
which Me. 2. Waves tas ie in preparation. Late in life Mr. 
“Loydell took up the study of Mosses-an 
