BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC, 827 
Uganda lecte.’”? Mr. M. T. Dawe, officer in charge of the Forestry 
and Scientific Department of the Uganda Protectorate, made an 
expedition from Entebbe, through Buddu and the Western and Nile 
provinces of that territory. His collections were transmitted from 
time to time to Kew, and his report was issued as the Blue Book to 
which we referred on p. 286. Much light is thrown on distribu- 
tion, and the new species are described, the names of which are 
published in the Blue Book, amongst them a new genus of Futacee, 
Halvomos'’: us Stapf, Me a new species of Warburgia (Canellacea). 
appendix Mr. Dawe gives a summary of his report on the 
vegetation of the country traversed. 
(vol. iv. no. 181) of the Bulletin of the New York 
Alge, | 8 
Flora of the Bahama Islands, by Dr. Britton. We note that “ 
paper was issued separately, in advance, on the date indicated” i 
the table of contents; these dates range from “ Au 1905” to “ Mr” 5 
and ‘“ Je” 1906; it is, we think, a ‘matter for discussion how far 
these issues in advance constitute publication. 
Ir is good news that the long-promised Guide to Kew Gardens, 
the shina of which was the subject of numerous eres in the 
House of eens during the late directorate, is at last to make 
its appeara Replying to a question by Mr. Money on July 16, 
Sir E. Biradey said that the preparation of an official guide to Kew 
Gardens had kindly been undertaken by Sir William Thiselton-Dyer, 
the late director, and it would be completed and placed on sale at 
the earliest eae e date. Now that Sir William 24 pon nelrtee 
of his official du ee he will have leisure wherein ry o 
Sea for which he is eminently qualified, ide we eh that 
the delays griks ee the production of certain other wor 
with the production of which he was associated will not interfere 
with the completion of this much- —— Guide. 
Fasorcte X. of Herr Carl ae nsen’s Indea Filicum (Copen- 
577- : : 
ten or twelve parts. There ought not to be any difficulty in com- 
pressing the remainder of the species-index, together with the 
systematic enumeration of genera and the alphabetical ick of © 
literature, within the limits allotted. 
. Ex. & Em. Marcaat, in their Recherches Physiologiques sur 
V Amidon cae les Bryophyles (Bull. Soc. Roy. Bot. Belgique, xliii. 
oe 115-214), give a ‘detailed account of their experiments made 
n some fifty hepatics and ninety mosses, with a view to deter- 
