BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC, 287 
Geological Magazine for August, to which we are indebted for some 
of the above particulars. 
Avorner veteran naturalist, Mr. Francis PouKinaHorne Pascor, 
died on June 20th. He was born at Penzance, Sept. 1, 1818, and 
educated for the medical profession. He became M.R.C.S8. in 1885, 
mology, indeed, was the study of his life, although his first publishe 
paper was on ‘Cornish Plants not included in Cybele Britannica,” 
published in the Botanical Gazette for 1850, and he was a member 
of the Botanical Society of London. He always retained his interest 
in botany, and was a well-known figure at the Linnean Society and 
eum. 
part from Natural Science for August, from which, by the way, we 
learn that the note in reference to this Journal, to which we ven- 
tured to take exception (p. 223), was intended to be « playful, but 
complimentary.”” The Editor of Natural Science is evidently of 
opinion that ‘‘ language was given us to conceal our t oughts.” 
Messrs. Sanper advertise, as ‘‘new and sensational,” the rare 
Orchid Fulophiella Elisabethe, and add, “Mr. R. A. Rolfe, the 
author and creator of this new genus, has examined our plants, and 
certified them true.”” There has been so much discussion as to the 
“origin of species,” that it is satisfactory to find at least one genus 
of which the origin can be definitely stated. 
Similar discrepancies occur elsewhere; No. 78 is in the text Poa 
signs 0 care in revision of the proofs are noticed, such as 
mission of an indicating letter, or, as in 7 ere the dis- 
sections of Poa Bolanderi are wrongly described. Moreover, why 
write Poa Thurberiana Vasey for a species originally 
