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difficult to treat it successfully under glass. He also showed a new 
case of apospory in Cystopteris montana, presenting the following 
novel features :—(1) Apospory appears upon an otherwise normal 
plant; (2) a fronds of abnormally small size are characterized 
by anou whic u 
re apices of ‘the fronds ; (8) by simply ob, these have, without 
development of root-hairs, produced prothalli; (4) in July last this 
usually deciduous fern produced six minute pinnatifid fronds at the 
base of a normal frond, which persisted, and produced young plants 
from apogamic buds. ‘Dr. A. B. Rendle gave a report of the recent 
Vienna Congress, at which he was the Society’s delegate. Wehope 
to publish later a paper on the subject from his pen. A paper by 
Dr. Franz Krinzlin, ontitled 6 Cyrtandres Malays insularis nove,”’ 
and founded on specimens in the moe arium of the Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew; and another by Mes “H. and J. Groves, ‘‘On 
Characese from the Cape of Good Hie collected by Major A. H. 
-Wolley-Dod,’’ were also communicated. 
We _ received the first number of The Garden Album and 
Review, a new illustrated monthly magazine of horticulture pub- 
lished by Messrs. Simpkin and Marshall, and edited by Mr. John 
Weathers. It is extraordinarily cheap, containing four well- 
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with illustrations, at t ost of sevenpence net. 1e interest 
appealed to is, of course, todiaty horticultural, but the cheapness of 
the book will probably secure it subscribers amongst those who like 
pretty pictures at small cost, and it certainly deserves encouragement. 
Our readers iia have heard with regret ve the death, in his 
eighty-second year, of Mr. Freperirck Townsenp, who has so long 
eld a prominent sais among British Nicene of the critical 
school. We hope to publish a memoir of him in an early issue. 
Tue recent death of Sir Mountstuart Exipuinstone Grant Dorr 
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(who was born in 1829) has removed of almost 
universal culture, and one though not strictly speaking a 
botanist, demands a line or two of recor th urnal. His 
reputation will rest upon his work as a politician and littérateur ; 
his most permanent record will remain in the rsa apa volumes 0} 
Jotes from a Diary, the instalments of which for any years 
mit delighted the general reader, = have Tt illustrated the 
erb, noscitur a_ soctis. he notes abound in allusions to 
Cotaniats and plants; ors of the ge pt ait ex ed in t. 
ournal for 1904, pp. 294-300. Sir Grant Duff was in intimate 
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but his chief friend and mentor in botany was the late Lord De 
charming biographical n is memoir of De Tabley, which 
appeared in the pastator re after his death, is quoted in this 
Journal for 1896, p. 77. 
Tue Journal of the Kew Guild for 1905 contains a notice of the 
late Charles Moore (with portrait) by his nephew, Mr. F. W. Moore, 
