BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 31 
S. Townsendi and S. Neyrautii should after all be found to have 
been introduced from some other part of the world just into those 
two localities. An attempt of artificial crossing of S. alterniflora 
and S. stricta should be made. Dr. Stapf finally spoke of the 
grass as a mud-binding and gute reclaiming species. 
: Same meeting papers were read by Mr. H. N. ee on 
a oullastion of plants from Gunong cores Pahang, by 
inson, and on some marine Algw from the Red Sea, by ‘Prof 
Harvey-Gibson, based on maori penta by Mr. Cyril 
Crossland in 1904 and 1905. The number is thirty-five 
species; twelve belong to the Apa t and as many to the 
_ aophycee, with eleven Rhodophycee. In an appendix the follow- 
Phanerogams were menti ine as having been collected at the 
ee me: Cymodocea Halophila siepallbaa: Najas marina, 
and fragments of Salicornia fruticosa, 
THE volume on chibi ae for Soiling, Silage, Hay and 
Pasture, by E. B. Voorhees, D. Se. (New York: The Macmillan Co., 
given as to the preparation of the soil and seeding, the manures 
and tillage, the harvesting and ges and the feeding-value, deter- 
mined by chemical analyses, of the various crops. The volume 
agriculturists in those lands, being assured that they will find 
rouch practical information as to possible forage crops.—W. C. 
In Seed and Soil Inoculation for Leguminous Crops ( Country 
Life” Office, 1s.), Prof. Bottomley recites the pr — of our 
ie 
d with remarkable success. The results of these experi- 
ments and the ee nae’ gain to agriculture form the bulk of his 
interesting pamphlet.—W. C. 
TuE Rey. Joun Ferausson, who died in Edinburgh on August 6, 
1907, was for many years well known as a worker at British 
Mosses, the study of which he took up in 1866. He was born in 
1834 at Kerrow, Glen Shee, Forfarshire, and Lie boos eee 
were connected with that county and are embodied in 
in Trans. Bot. Soe. > Edinb. x. 245 (1869) ; inthis between 
el ce hundred species new a ere od 
