238 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
We learn from the daily press that a new botanical post has been 
created, which will be filled by Sir W. Thiselton-Dyer, who, itis said, 
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Dyer, who now becomes ‘ Botanical Adviser’ to the Co onial 
Secretary of State, has been Director of the Royal Gardens at 
Kew for the last seventeen years. He began his working career 
at the Royal Agricultural College at Cirencester in 1868, when he 
was twenty-five, but he wrapped himself up in Kew in more senses 
than one when he married the accomplished daughter of Sir Joseph 
Hooker, who was Director of the famous ‘ Gardens’ from 1855 to 
65. Like his distinguished father-in-law, Sir William has con- 
tributed largely to the literature of botanical science, and there is 
ably much more yet to come trom im, for he is a very young 
man for his years.” It can hardly be said that the literary contri- 
butions of the present Director, so far as these are enumerated in 
the ‘ List of Kew Publications’ reviewed in this Journal for 1897 
(pp. 100-103) are comparable either in number or quality with 
those of ‘his distinguished father-in-law’; but it may be that his 
comparative leisure will result in the production of work which will 
take rank with that of Sir Joseph Hooker. 
The Journal of the Linnean Society dated April 1 (xxxv. 20. 244) 
contains an important paper by Mr. Hemsley on ‘‘ The lora of 
Tibet and High Asia; being a consolidated account of the various 
Tibetan botanical collections in the Herbarium of the Royal 
Gardens, Kew, together with an exposition of what is known of 
the Flora of Tibet.” 
Ctenidium (two), Hyocomium (one), Ptiliwm (one), 5¢ ; 
ished). Among the rarer specte® 
are Myurella tenerrima, Hylocomium pyrenaicum, Ctenidium procertt- 
mum, Stereodon Bambergeri, and S, revolutus. The differences betwee? 
parietinum 
land, Osterreich und der Schweiz (Gera, Reuss j. L.: F. von Zezsch- 
witz), advance the work from p. 33 to p. 128, and contain plates 
