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old-fashioned folk, and the index to the volume will probably be 

 consulted more frequently than is usual in books of the kind. 



We have received the first two volumes (1889, 1892) of the 

 Transactions of the Burton-on-Trent Natural History and Archaeo- 

 logical Society, in which are the following botanical papers: (1889) 

 "Notes on Micro-organisms" (four plates) and "A Grain of 

 Barley 1 ' (five plates), by Mr. Horace T. Brown; " the Wild 

 Plants of Foreign Bailey Fields/' by Mr. J. G. Wells, who would 

 have done well to send his undetermined species to some botanist 

 for identification; and notes on " The Influence of Temperature on 

 the Progress of Vegetation," by Mr. T. Gibbs : (1892) "Notes on 

 a Salt-Marsh at Branston," by Messrs. J. E. Nowers and J. G. 

 Wells ; and " Some Varieties of Huskless Barley from Tibet,' ' by 

 Mr. H. T. Brown. There are other papers of general rather than 

 local interest, notably one on " The Irish Aran," by Mr. P. B. 

 Mason, which is well illustrated, but is, we think, out of place 

 in the Transactions of a local society. 



We have received from the Essex Institute, Salem, Mass., a 

 nicely printed little book, called Our Trees, by Mr. John Robinson, 

 containing a popular account of the cultivated and native trees of 

 Salem and the neighbourhood. 



The extraordinary and unprincipled attempt of the War Office 

 to grab a portion of the New Forest for military purposes is, we are 

 glad to see, exciting the strongest opposition from representatives 

 of all classes of society. The proposed action is taken under the 

 Ranges Act of 1891, and is in direct contravention of the New 

 Forest Act of 1877. A new Bill has been introduced with a 

 view to limiting the powers of the War Department, which we 

 trust may prevent the proposed outrage, against which every 

 naturalist will protest. Petitions in opposition to the scheme of 

 spoliation are being extensively signed, for which Mr, Herbert Goss, 

 Secretary of the Entomological Society, 11, Chandos St., Cavendish 

 Square, W., will gladly receive names. 



Prof. Baillon's important Dictionnaire de Botaniqne, which has 

 been in progress since 1876, is now completed; the last part, 

 which has just been issued, contains a supplement to the work, by 

 which the whole is brought up to date. 



The "new herbarium pest," to which attention has been 

 directed, is perhaps no novelty. Prof. Riley described it as Car- 



phaxera ptelearia, but Mr. R. M'Lachlan points out in the Gardeners 1 

 Chronicle that an insect of similar habit— Amdalia herbariata—h&s 

 been known here for nearly a century, and was described by 

 Fabricius in 1798, who says of it, "Habitat in herbariis folia 

 plantarum exsiccatarum exedens." 



The part of the Icones Plantarum issued in January completes 

 the first of the two volumes which Sir Joseph Hooker is devoting 

 entirely to Indian Orchidacese. These volumes will be extremely 

 valuable, not only to orclndologists, but m connection with bur 



