83 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
including some new to Britain. In 1869 he removed to New Pit- 
sligo, in Aberdeenshire, and in 1875 he was inducted to the parish 
of Ferns, near Brechin ; his further discoveries appeared in Science 
Gossip and elsewhere. At one time ergusson contemplated pub- 
lishing a manual of British Mosses; he had an extensive corre- 
pondence with Wilson, Hunt, and other leading gee ag Mes PHS 
nd was generous in distributing a ens. is name stands as 
the authority for at least one speciesynew to cs ilnie ks notis 
pressa—and he added many species te the British flora. The 
University of St. Andrews, where he had been a student, bestowed 
upon him in 1896 the degree of Doctor of Laws. 
nstalment contains the Gatens ines: Dilleniacee, "Magnoliacea, 
oa Anonacee, and is the work of MM. Finet and agnepain ; 
thirty-four of the hundred and eight a described in it are 
new, and there are fourteen excellent plates by C. Kastner. It is 
expected that the work will occupy seven volumes of about five 
hundred pages each. The arrangement followed will be that of 
Bentham & Hooker, but the volumes will not appear in their 
sequence; thus the next instalment, which will appear early in the 
year, will begin vol. vi., and will include the Hydrocharidee, Bur- 
manniacee, and Scitaminee. The price of each fascicle is 10 francs. 
WE are glad to see that the Lichen ——— “aie suggested 
by Mr. A. R. Horwood in our November num as become an 
accomplished fact. A SL are of four pages ting the rules 
and a list of “exempta’’— ‘lichens of universal distribution 
which, unless the potasereiee : differ ou the typical form, need not 
be sent for exchange’ y be obtained ae fogs Horwood, the 
Secretary, at the Gorporaticis Museum, Leices Specimens for 
distribution or identification should be sent > tie distributor for 
the Phat the Rev. H. P. Reader, Lonel Cross Priory, Leicester. 
Si members have been already enrolled. 
r List of the alterations in the yours of the List of 
British Seed-plants indicated in our last issue has been printed in 
slip form and will be sent out in future with the List ose who 
have alread. chased the List can obtain a copy of the altera- 
tions on pplinebai to the Keeper of the Department of Botany. 
E understand that the new edition of the London Catalogue, 
upon bigs as Messrs. W. R. Clarke & E. S. Marshall have been for 
some time engaged, will psrartas be issued, as will also the more 
elaborate Catalogue by Mr. G. C. Dies which will be published 
by the Clarendon Press. 
— —— of Miss C. E. Ealuoee, which contains many 
lants "for the porpad a Sanmepidewana ian caer as untess of 
the secaadebce of the Count of Saeeeneda pens of Lady 
Aylesford’s descendan 
