190 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
as has been shown in this — (1907, p. 434), the names 
— inthis Flora bear the same rank as they do in the Species Plan- 
: M. minima should be pated: as of Desrousseaux in Lam 
novel iii. 636 (1789). 
he Moker is illustrated by nineteen useful plates, giving 
aspects of vegetation and portraits of individual san and i 
every way a valuable addition to botanical knowledge a 
Bref och skrifvelser af och tell Carl pap Linné, med understéd af 
Svenska Staten utgifna af  U; ‘psala Universitet. Forsta 
afdelningen Del i. och ii. Stockholm: Aktiebolaget 
Ljus, 1907-8. 8vo. Del.i. Skrivelser till offentliga myn- 
digheter och till kungl. a i Upsala. Ut- 
gifna och med upplysande noter for af Th. M. Fries. 
907. Pp. iii. + 343. Del. 11. Parcaas och brev till K. 
Svenska oe och dess Sekretarare. . - - 
1908. Pp. 377. Figs. 
THESE tiled bere the first two of what rot certainly be 
the standard edition of the letters of Carl von Linné. Th 
general scheme is set out on the back of the Wruiper of each 
volume, and in consequence of the multitude of letters and com- 
munications which se be included, the work is divided into the 
four divisions as follows :— 
I oe one communications to Swedes, Finns, Danes, 
d Norw 
Il. Sate ats pereons 0 of the Benge hcopaiak a 
IlI.—Letters to the sopenthg corresponden 
IV. —Letters from the s 
It be seen that the ae now under review fall under 
the first heading; the first volume containing letters to public 
authorities, from the king (thanking him for the title of Archiater) 
onwards, and the Royal Scientific Society at Upsala. The second 
volume deals es ee ysvonmmuages to the Royal Swedish 
Academy of Sci , and its successive secretaries. 
This pablcations is one of ch results of the “ Linnéfest’”’ of 1907, 
is supported by State funds, the Riksdag having readily voted the 
required subsidy, published under the authority of the Royal 
University of Uppsala (to use the modern spelling) and edited by 
Prof. Th. M. Fries, who supplies the explanatory ae o more 
ie of his eminent Ei and ss BA steep 
ment which could bear upon his work, he must be held to be an 
ideal editor for the important work to which he has been called. 
He would certainly be the first to acknowledge the indebtedness 
of the whole scientific world in general, and Sweden in particular, 
