B52 '  BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO, 
in possession of the Agricultural Society of India, is prefixed to the 
' notice. 
Tue second part of the Index Kewensis has been passed for press, 
and may be expected very shortly. -This concludes the first of the 
4wo volumes, and brings the enumération down to the end of J 
(Justicia). So far the work occupies 1268 pages. The following 
errors in our review of the first part should be corrected :—p. 811, 
"1, 22 from top, for “Pritzel,” read “Steudel”; p. 818, 1. 8 from 
top, for ‘1760,” read “1768”: 316, 1. 14 from bottom, for - 
 Warminoia.” 
armingia,” read “Warmingii””: | 14, for 1827,” read “1887.” 
Tue aération of the seeds of Leguminose, of which Prof. Borzt 
writes in Malpighia (vii. 1898, pp. 8-14), formed the subject of two 
papers (with illustrations) by Prof. A. H. Church, published in this 
Journal for 1864, pp. 120-122; 1865, p. 324. 
Tue Stationery Office has published Mr. Scott Elliot’s Report 
on the Botany of Sierra Leone—a result of the expedition in which 
he took part in 1891-2. The economic side of the subject is alone 
dealt with, as the botanical results will shortly be published by 
the ean Society, and will no doubt contain full information 
i i Report. 
e de nition of certain nude names for which he is understood to 
be responsible, and which appear in the Kew Gardens Report for 
1880 and elsewhere. In this Report it was stated (see Journ. Bot. 
1882, 289) that Dr. Dyer proposed to ‘communicate descriptions 
of the new species to the Linnean Society,” but this has not yet 
been done, and it is gratifying to learn that the work is in progress. 
_ Tae Department of Botany of the British Museum has acquired 
the great collection of Diatomacee made by Mr. Julien Deby, which 
was long without a rival, except in the extensive and valuable 
Series already in the slate Mr. Deby’s collection consists of a 
ve erles, arranged systematically ; i ‘s d 
slides’”’; the collections of Bie Dmkis, Get ox 
Miller, Tempere and Peragallo ; a fine series of Walker Arnott’s; 
collections, and their accessibility to students, form matter for con- 
pm to the large class of diatomists in this country. 
£ are glad to learn that the unpublished material, includin 
many drawings, which the late Mr. R. D. Fitzgerald had Saint 
lated for his Australian Orchids is to be i i F 
z e issued 
son, who bears the same name, ed in due course by his 
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