240 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
scot are grown in the open air the disease is rare, and ne 
assumes the proportions of an epidemic.” A short sass: is 
pada ‘of a caused by animals. 
In this volume on Plant Diseases Mr. Massee has included 
all that is of seinen “ the subject and of value to the plant 
cultivator, to whom a book will be most helpful; to the 
mycologist it will be sileceaais a. 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
THE monument which is being erected by public subscription 
at Forfar in memory of George Don will be unveiled on September 
8th by Mr. G. Claridge Druce, who has been largely concerned 
in securing its erection. 
WE learn from the Selborne Magazine that a reservation for 
alpine flora and fauna is being made in Switzerland. A small 
band of naturalists and botanists have devoted themselves to this 
Engadine. This valley, situated at the foot of the lofty Piz 
Quatervals and surrounded by natural walls of rock, will have 
ways, monster hotels and factories. Here, too, the exte 
of wild flowers will be strictly prohibited, and the chamois and 
even perhaps the bear will roam unmolested. The land belongs 
o th i 
se 
England will be gladly received at the office of the Bund fir 
Naturschutz, 22, Spitalstrasse, Basel, Switzerland. 
A Manual of Botany for Indian Forest Students, by Mr. R.S. Hole, 
F.L.S., has lately been issued from the Calcutta Government Press. 
In this work, the author, who holds the post of Forest Botanist 
in the Imperial Forest School, Dehra Dun, has provided a text- 
book designed primarily sor the use of his pupils in that institu- 
tion, and he is to be con 
abreast of present-day botanical knowledge. 6 may 
mitted to suggest, phan that the section of the anaal ae iia 
with systematic botany, while well fitted to give the student an 
scope of the work in this direction oni be materially widened 
by the inclusion of a concise synopsis of the natural families of 
tea ts occurring in British _ which would serve as a useful 
eis e one frova the con to the abstract. 
