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tandis qu’ une autre partie des botanistes conserveraient, en se 
référant & l'article 5, les noms usuels maintenant, mais n’ayants 
pas droits de priorité. Par la, la conformité de la nomenclature 
inconvenients, respectivement les prévenir qu’en acceptant une 
amplification de la liste d’exceptions.” We trust that Dr. Jan- 
$ proposition will not be accepted. The adoption, without 
a enna was, as ave always maintained, a regrettable in- 
cident, and, although we think it should be accepted, t 
surprised that some take a different view. But the frequent addi- 
and is unfair to those who conscientiously endeavour to observe 
priority in nomenclature. 
THe Rey. W. Hunt Painter has presented the whole of his 
botanical, geological, and minibar Wi aia to the Univer- 
sity College of Wales, Aberystwyth. Mr. Painter’s herbarium is 
of especial interest. It inhale a practically rtiplete collection 
of British flowering- ag and vite! together with many Euro- 
pean and other specimens. There is also a fine collection of Car- 
* diganshire and othak mosses, accompanied by a considerable 
number of microscope slides of leaves, capsules, &c. 
THE Trish Naturalist for November contains an account of 
residing at Ballitore, Co. Kildare, he developed a taste for botany, 
and gained a good knowledge of the plants included in the Irish 
flora, ve rom the first a speciality of peenets and corres- 
onding amongst others with Professor W. H. Harvey, of Trinity 
pe e Herbarium of Trinity College. In 1856, during a 
short visit a the Isle of Man, Davies compiled a list of all the 
mosses that he could find on the island, which was subsequently 
published in the Phytologist for 1857, and was his first published 
contribution to science. He joined the Belfast fees: Field 
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discovering one species new to the British Islands, and several 
new to Ireland. These are for the most part recorded in the Irish 
Naturalist, 1900-1907. 
Tue Report for 1908 of the Botanical Exchange Club, isa ay 
editor and og cea Mr. W. Bell, has ae issued by M 
James Parker & Son, Oxford, price 2s. 6d. ope to giv reer 
extracts at an early date ; meanwhile we may a attention to the 
