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moment of. writing, “a other calhitenenkiess has been “ele 
in Tooktietes ’; these notes add materially to the value of the 
biography. 
Prof. Balfour points out that * the foundation of this memoir is 
the story of Don’s life given by Mr. J. Knox in the Scottish Natur- 
alist, 1883-84,” i.e. 1881, with certain corrections. Mr. Druce him 
self published (Phaiwnonidel Journal, Aug. 16, 1902) a fairly long 
biography ; and it may be suggested that the present memoir would 
not have suffered by conde ensation, a eee alias in ro ice 
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iography is followed by a number of appendixes: A. o 
Don's ** Reputed Di scoveries ’ ; B. his disco at C. his ‘ : Her- 
barium Britannicum’’; D. his pri rivate herbarium ; Ba reprint of 
Don’s essay on indigenous grasses, from the Tassentons of the 
Highland Society, 1807; F. a reprint of his account of the plants 
and animals of Forfar, from the ‘“‘ General View of the County of 
Angus,’ 1813; G. (and postscript) Don’s letters. In the first 
Mr. Druce has brought together—we think in unnecessary detail— 
all that has been said about Don’s ‘‘ reputed discoveries,”’ to which 
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attached to Don’s oe gt in on ge collection of the National 
Herbarium. A number of these are quoted in Mr. Garry’s Notes 
on the Drawings for ‘ English Botany, published as an appendix to 
this Journal in 1903-4; but neither the Notes nor the Journal are 
Sane in the ti of works consulted by Mr. Druce, and we have 
und no reference to them in his 
306 example of this omission will, be found under Sagina alpina, 
entered as ‘* Sagina alpina, Druce, in the Scottish Naturalist, p. 177 
(1884),.”’ Mr. Druce contents himself with a See less Don 
found this plant on Ben Nevis in 1794.” Mr. Garry (p. re 8 trans- 
cribes the note attac by Don to the spbenhibar pe y him to 
Sowerby, in which he says, ‘I found it upon ben Nivis in Lochebass™ 
and although the example was ‘‘a cultivated speciment”’ (sic in MS.), 
he adds that “ it is in no way different from the wild, in appairance, 
found in 1794.” Nor is it easy to see why Mr. Druce a 
x name as the authority for the species ; in the Scottish ee 
which he refers the name stands as “9S. alpina 
ieaibaaaen. as the plant there (ii. 177) stands as a variety of S 8. 
maritima, and Mr. Druce nowhere indicated that he regarded it as 
