208 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Jupemne from the Report of the Felsted School Scientific Society 
for 1900-1901, botany is not a popular study at the present time. 
The Rev. E. Gepp contributes a short ‘ botanical report ’’ which 
contains a curious mixture of type and some interesting notes on : 
certain plants occurring in that part of Essex; but why, im a 
publication issuing from an education 1 centre, are the Latin 
names deprived of their capitals ? 
The Scottish Geographical Magazine for March contains an 
interesting paper on ‘‘A Botanical Survey of Scotland,” by Dr. 
W. G. Smith, of the Yorkshire College, Leeds. It is based on the 
work of his brother, the late Robert Smith; we hope to give some 
extracts later, if space will allow. 
Messrs. Bracke & Son contemplate a re-issue of Prof. F. W. 
Oliver’s translation of Kerner’s Natural History of Plants. The new 
edition will be issued at a considerably reduced price; it will be sub- 
stantially a reprint, with a few necessary alterations and corrections. 
Me. Laster Perry publishes in the Naturalist for February 
what appears to be a very complete list of the plants of Silverdale, 
West Lancashire. 
Tux Bureau of Plant Industry of the U.S. Department of 
Agriculture has issued a bulletin of exceptional botanical interest. 
Under the title ‘‘Spermatogenesis and Fecundation of Zamia,” 
Mr. H. J. Webber, physiologist to the Department, gives an @X- 
haustive account of his work on the sexual stage in the life-history 
have previously been published, there is no need to give an abstract. 
Botanists will be glad to have in one pamphlet this connected ac- 
Prof. F. EB. Weiss discusses the affinity of Xenophyton radiculosum. 
Williamson suggested that it was of the nature of a Stigmaria ; but 
Hick, by whom it was described, was not able to adopt this view. 
phyton we have the ‘root’ or rhizophore-like structure of some 
Lepidophloios. The massive middle cortex of the fossil further 
points to L. fuliginosus as the corresponding stem ; and the author 
concludes that the two fossils were thus associated. : 
We regret to announce the death of Mr. Tomas CoMBER, which 
took place suddenly at Blackpool on Jan. 24; and of Mr. G. »- 
Jenman, Government Botanist of British Guiana, who died at George- 
town on Feb. 28. Notices of these botanists will appear later. 
