126 THE YEAR-BOOK OF SCIENCE. 
priority is to be observed. If the few lines in which Dr. Dyer (in 
Nature) expresses his opinion are worthy of record, Mr. Britten’s 
exhaustive paper in Natural Science should have been mentioned; 
but that journal is entirely ignored throughout the botanical 
section of the Year-book. Mr. N. E. Brown, by the way, appears 
to have discovered the secret of perpetual youth, for Mr. Hemsley 
refers to him as “a young botanist,” although he has completed 
twenty years’ work in the Kew Hebari 
oreover, we should expect to find Massee’s monograph of 
viii plates, including descriptions and illustrations of nearly fifty 
new species, and Solms Laubach’s account of three Genera of 
The confusion of headings in the part devoted to Morphology 
and Biology is even greater. The sub ivision Phanerogams is 
considered under three headings,—Morphology, On the nature and 
exhaustive Beitrage zur Biologie der Lianen, nor under Morphology 
to Schumann’s valuable Morphologische Studien, in which he con- 
tinues his work on the Inflorescence, 
in the brief note on the important Splachnidium paper a serious 
mistake gives .# wrong impression of the result. The authors make 
three suggestions as to the nature of the fruit, which the recorder 
8 : a 
blunder, for the authors dispose of the first and second, and adopt 
