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The compilers hope to include in the set nearly all the rare and 

 local plants, as fully authenticated as possible. As, consequently, 

 much time must be consumed and expense incurred in getting the 

 material together, the several fascicles will be issued at intervals of 

 about a year : a plan which, it is hoped, will also prove convenient 

 to the subscribers. Each fascicle will contain twenty-five full sheets, 

 representing as many different brambles. A few well-marked 

 varieties will be introduced, but no hybrids. The price of each 

 fascicle will be one guinea. 



Mr. Britten has undertaken the editorship of Nature Notes for 

 the Selborne Society. The January number will contain a popular 

 introduction to the study of the Mycetozoa, by Mr. Arthur Lister. 



The Presidential Address delivered last July by Mr. F. M. 

 Bailey before the Royal Society of Queensland, and published in its 

 Proceedings, is devoted to a "Concise History of Australian Botany," 

 beginning with "the celebrated buccaneer Capt. William Dampier" 

 (1688-9), to whose many titles is now added that of M father of 

 Australian botany," and carried down to the present time, so far as 

 Queensland is concerned. 



The Journal of the Institute of Jamaica, the first number of 

 w T hich appeared in November, is to be a quarterly record of the 

 Transactions of the Institute, and will contain articles dealing with 

 the flora and fauna of the island. 



A paper on the Structure of Tmesipteris, with five plates, is 

 contributed to the Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy (3rd Series, 

 ii. No. 1) by Mr. A. Vaughan Jennings and Miss Kate M. Hall. 



The Scottish Naturalist is to be incorporated with the Annals of 

 Scottish Natural History, a new quarterly magazine devoted to the 

 publication of original matter relating to the natural history of 

 Scotland, of which Prof. J. W. H. Trail is to be editor. 



Mr. Ridley's Expedition to Pahang. — The Straits Times of 



Nov. 13, 1891, contains an account of Mr. Ridley's expedition to 



Pahaug, to explore, if possible, the Gunong Tahang range of hills. 



The expedition started on the 23rd of June, and returned to 



Singapore on the 5th of September. Owiug to the failure of the 



commissariat, it was impossible to reach the mountain Tahan ; the 

 difficulty o~ 



the 



gress of the expedition. Notwithstanding these drawbacks, the 

 botanical results of the expedition were far from unsatisfactory : 

 11 Although two out of the three plant-collectors were ill — one with 

 fever, the other from an injury to his foot — for the greater part of 

 the time in the Tahan River valley, and were, therefore, useless, 

 the collection of herbarium specimens was very successful, over 

 two thousand being obtained. The most striking plants obtained 

 were Brugrnamia Loici (one of the P^ajflesiacea), hitherto only known 

 from Sumatra and Borneo, and being the first species of the order 

 Rafflesiacea obtained in the Peninsula. Protauwmum, a new genus 



