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first appear in this edition. The uncoloured plates from ea 
graphs give an excellent notion of the object depicted ; the coloured 
letter-press is, as we should expect, carefully done and really in- 
forming, and in this is a great improvement upon most popular 
books of the kind. We note that the title-page bears no date—an 
omission frequently to be observed in Messrs. Cassell’s books. 
NEW periodical—Orchis—the brief title of which sufficiently 
expresses its scope—is being issued from Berlin, under the editor- 
ship of Prof. Udo Dammer. It is a handsome folio, well printe 
us contain ee s by G. ens, R. Schlechter, E. Pfitzer, 
EK. de Wildeman, F. Krinzlin, “g other oorgratts The _— 
represent some of the interminable and to the ordinary eye indis 
tinguishable forms of Cattleya, Lelia, Oncidiom, and the like, which 
seem to ms part aa solely for trade purpos from a botanical 
point of view they cannot be regarded as unefaks or owes but 
they are weil executed and will no doubt please orchidophilists 
Tue: Proceedings of the Linnean wero se r 1905-6 contains an 
excee ed interesting ia of (eight) pede of Linneus, with 
descriptions by Mr. Carruthers, who in 1889 presented to the 
Society the results of his invesagatibny into the portraits which 
formed the subject of his Se esr address in 1889 and was 
published in the Proceedings for that year. The reproductions are 
i ese ph 
from photographs of he authentic portraits, and th oto- 
graphs, with his collection of other portraits, have been presented 
arruthe he ety. The 23rd of May next year is 
by Mr. 
the bicentenary of Linneus’s birth, and we would suggest to Mr. 
Carruthers that a re-issue of the portraits in a separate ‘publication, 
with a full list and description of the various reproductions and 
their modifications, would interest many who may not be Fellows 
of a at Society, but who might like to possess so interesting 
a collectio 
fie Cia of California has received by donation the her- 
barium and Saas l library of Mr. and Mrs. T. 8S. Brandegee, of 
San hed The herbarium is one of the most important in the 
West, since it sitter ns something over 100,000 sheets of carefully 
phot plants, mostly representative of the Mexican flora, which 
for many years has been Mr. Brandegee’s chosen field, and of the 
flora of California and neighbouring States, which has received 
careful treatment at the hands of Mrs. Brandegee. It contains the 
8 ing any species, the originals of 
which were lost in the recent fire that destroyed so large a portion 
of the California Ac of Sciences Herbarium, as well as 
hate of practically all the new species described by Mr. and Mrs 
egee themselves. Among the noteworthy sets represented 
