122 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
will save much _ that would otherwise be spent in hunting 
through a diction 
A pretty full list of seer names is appended, oe the 
usual abbreviations; among these there seem to 
slips, e.g.  Ehrha rat” aL ‘‘Marshal.”’ Taken as a Holey this 
unpretentious volume deserves high praise. B.S. M 
Botaniker cps Herausgegeben von J. Dérrizr. Zweite, 
ae und vermehrte Auflage. Wien,1900. 8vo, clokti 
pp. 4,8 
Tats ae and enlarged (by nearly 60 pages) edition of a 
useful book will be welcomed by all who have much bot anical 
correspondence. It is about six years since the first issue was 
published, and in that time many changes have occurred to render a 
new A necessary. It is so well done that we regret it is not 
better ; it will never be as good as it easily might be until the 
compiler sibesiia his proofs to csr botanist in each country for 
correction and revision. We said this when rev iewing the first 
edition (Journ. Bot. 1896, 287), and there is at least as much 
ground for criticism now as there was then. We can best make 
lain b 
‘*Malborough, Devon, England,” where there is a Natural History 
Society connected with “ Malborough College.’ There is of course 
a Malborough in Devon, but Marlborough i in Wilts i is here meant. 
more famous school tees no better:—‘* Windsor. Museum of the 
eg although their names and addresses remain as of ol 
Herr Dorfler’s book. 
The ralphabesionl list of botanists, which is remarkable for the 
number of names it in ae yy aoa of them with scanty claim to be 
aa as botanists and other with none—also — revision. 
a cross-reference. The late Dr. George Mivart, even during 51s 
lifetime, could hardly be ranked as a botanist, nor should we have 
expected to find the Director of the Natural Hi istory Museum in the 
ist. Mr. 0, E. Salmon is not best known as a student of ‘* micro- 
ungi”; and Mr. F. N. Williams has extended his range of obser- 
vation beyond Caryophyllacee. The Editor of this Journal has 
cause for complaint i in that his address is given as ‘‘ Kensington 
Pa: a Road”; the change of one letter will probably send many 
astray. 
In view of the prefatory statement that the 9815 addresses 
