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lane, or other bate: sa pee that this bye-law shall not apply to we 
persons collecting specimens in small quantities for private 
scientific use. eae pe offending against this bye-law shall - 
liable to a penalty not exceeding Five Pounds. 
By the death at Durham of Canon Henry Baxer Tristram, on 
March 8, the Church of England, says the Standard, ‘‘ has lost one 
of her most learned sons, and the Evangelical party one of its most 
learned leaders.” He was born at Eglingham, Northumberland, 
estimate of relative importance: it r; “We regret to announce 
the death of Canon Tristram of Dur Shai He was the father of the 
ee Rigby fo football = ~~ also a prominent naturalist.” 
T, who with his death at the hands of a 
with the Pecdiiaian Church. During the Livingstone expedition 
made a small Sota. of plants, which was purchased for a 
National Herbarium; another small _ made by him 
Zambesia in 1868-72 is in the Kew Herbari 
Mr. E. M. Hoses, who is preparing for os “ Victoria Sa 
an account of the cryptogams of Devon and Dorset, will be glad to 
receive records of these, ow y ot fungi and froshwater alge, 
Address: Ruthven, Sevenoaks, Ken 
Mr. G. C. Druce’s address will z the future be 9 Crick Road, 
Oxford; Mr. Arthur Benneti’s is now 143 High Street, Croydon. 
‘Tue “ Index Perfectus” to the first edition of Linnwus’s Species 
Plantarum, issued by Baron Ferdinand von Mueller in 1880, has for 
‘some time been Ganlancabte. and its undoubted usefulness” has 
suggested that it should be reprinted as a Supplement to this 
Journal. pect shown that 
names are placed alphabetically under oe. ad the arrange- 
genus, 
ae ae will in other eaneets, we tink. be found more convenient 
or 
