128 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
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He took the degree of B.-és-Se. 
M.A. and Ph.D. of Gottingen. In 1856 he advertised a Flora of 
Somersetshire as preparing for publication, but the work was never 
issued; the MS. is stated to be with his herbarium, which was sold 
to the Gloucester Museum in 1870. His discovery of Botrychtum 
matricariafolium A. Br. in 1887 at Stevenston, in Ayrshire, con- 
firmation of which is desirable, is noticed in this Journal in 1898, 
p. 291, where the specimen is figured (t. 888B). He was a Fellow 
his life in Great Britain, as a teacher of science and of languages. 
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with a third, which appeared in January last. The sheets are 
‘pulls’ from the periodical, not even the paging being altered: 
p. 12. Th 
Pickersgill, Leeds, and will be useful when a more adequate flora 
of the county is undertaken. 
er s volume. 
accompanies the specimens, which appear to be well selected. 
Tue second number (December) of the Annals of the Royal 
Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, contains an interesting account of 
The Botany of the Maldive Islands,” by Messrs. J. C. Willis 
and J. §. Gardiner. It includes a long list of Maldivian plant- 
names. 
We have received the first part of Contributiuni (a Flora 
Ceahlaulwi (alpine and subalpine region), by Messrs. Z. C. Panta 
and A. Procopianu-Procopovici. It is reprinted from the Bulletin 
de UVHerbier de UInstitut botanique de Bucarest, of which the first 
number appeared last September. 
arizonica, sp. 1. ; 
and describes Aster Greatai, sp. n. 
_ We understand that no action will be taken with regard to the 
inquiry of the Botanical Work Committee which we summarized 1 
last year’s Journal, pp. 805-315. 
