80 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
of Glasnevin, which supplements the short ealgers given in last 
's Journal (p. 280). There is also a notic with portrait, of 
hn Horne (see Journ. Bot. , 192). . Kew Journal re- 
prints from the Pall Mall Gazette an article on the wages agitation 
ey sae a dpe of the late Director in his uniform as ‘‘ Inspector 
of Constables 
palsies cK WILLIAM Borsivce, wR died at Dublin on Dec. 24, 
was born at Wymeswold, oe where his father was a 
farmer and fruit-grower, on March 21, 1847. From the Horticul- 
tural Society’s Garden at Chiswick he went to Kew, where, in 
addition to his work in the gardens, his skill as a draughtsm man led 
‘to his employment in the herbar cate seal he made a series of 
Seaings: bse “the collection there. 1878, having left Kew, he 
pu ublished a useful little shilling hindhosk on The Art of Botanical 
-Drawing ; the plates in his important book on The Narcissus (1875) 
were drawn by him. ote 1877 Burbidge published, through Messrs. 
1 
ackwood, a volume on Cultivated Plants, their Propagation and 
Treatment, in which wet Re knowledge is combined with scientific 
aspects in a manner too seldom found in books of the kind; it is 
well written and onmngs interesting, and should, as Sir Josep 
ooker has said, be in every gardener’s libr In this year he 
went to Borneo and the Sulu Archipelago, to collect for Messr 
Veitch; here he iscoveries t, among them 
: ade many d 
being the beautiful Scitamineous plant named Burbidgea by Sir 
Joseph Hooker, and a new pitcher-plant, Nepenthes Burbidgei Hook. £.; 
the sketches of plants made during the expedition are in the library 
attached to the National Herbarium. He published an account of 
his journey in a volume entitled The Gardens of the Sun. In 1879 
Burbidge was appointed Curator of the Trinity College Botanic 
Gardens, Dublin—a post which he retained till his death; his 
im t work in this position obtained for him the honora 
“degree of Master of Arts of the Dublin University. An interesting 
paper on the meee Senecio nitenconti3 in which he collaborated with 
Mr. Nathaniel Colgan, will be found in this Journal for 1902, 
pp. 401-406. 
HE Kew Bulletin has made a fresh start ! meet the e pasty oa 
Lene leaving the volume for 1901 still Peeniiiae soya 
* No. 1905 (sic).”” The Stationery Office date is Feary. 
1908 but sing has always been a aint in which the Bulletin 
has been a law to itself. The present number, of eight pages, is 
of works and we are sorry that the opportunity has not been taken 
to give some information as to the a of the various ‘‘ hand- 
lists”” of plants cultivated in the Garde 
