286 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Herr J. Dorrie (IIL. Barichgasse 86, Vienna) - ee 
under the title Spf ip trits, & ne tion of portraits of e 
nent botanists, in parts each contain ing a decade at the price oe 
55. each. The portraits as in quarto size, printed on card, with a 
facsimile of signature and a short biography ; they are exceedingly 
well executed, and very cheap. Single ores 9 cost 1 mark each, or 
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Engler, de Vries, Guignard, Schroter, vie es Wille and Weit- 
stein; the second, E. M. Fri ries, T. M. Fries, Pfeffer, Borodin, 
Hackel, Scott, Goebel, Errera, Chodat and Ikeno (Tokio). The 
collection will form a valuable pagel be ae botanical library, 
and its sage will increase as time g 
glad to announce the eet of oe First ys 
ment to te Todos Kewensis by the publication of part iv. We sh 
have more to say about it later; meanwhile we note that, by a& 
strange misprint, ‘San the wrapper to the part and the title to the 
volume announce it as “ab initio 0 anni MDCCCLXxxvi usque ad finem 
anni MDccoxLy complecten 
Mr. W. Junx of Satis announces an ‘excellent —_- re- 
print on best paper” of the first edition of Linneus’s Species 
Plantarum, at the subscription — of £112s. The ieerianes of 
the work and the ote rarity of the original should secure the 
success of a ventur 
ine ae of Science has issued the first of a series 
of botanical eile ents, to contain papers on systematic a 
including diagnoses of new species, notes on syno mnymy, obscure or 
unknown species, &¢., and monographs of various families tae 
genera of Philippine —— The supplements will be of the same 
style and size as the Journal, but will be paged and indexed 
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Mr. Elmer D. Merrill ll, arrang wea Ceol to the si of 
Engler and Prantl’s s Pjlanzenfamilien, Mr. Merrill has had the co- 
operation of well-known authorities in certain orders, among them 
Mr. C. B. Clarke, Mr, Ridley, and Dr. Prain: a large number of 
new species are described. 
Tue Stationery Office has issued (price 1s. 5d. ) a Report by Mr. 
M. T. Dawe of his Botanical Mission - mare the kocian Districts of 
eerie with special reference to the eco ae < Uganda. 
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without at least a brief diagnosis; plates, however, are given of 
three new Landolphias as well as of Clitandra orientalis and Fun- 
