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British Botanists has been unexpectedly delayed, and, although 

 nearly one-half is in type, its publication can hardly take place 

 before the beginning of 1893, although we hope it will not be 

 delayed beyond that date. The list of First Records of British 

 Flowering Plants, which Mr. W. A. Clarke is now publishing in 

 these pages, will be reissued in pamphlet form, and we shall be 

 glad to receive any corrections for incorporation in the reprint. 

 Mr. E. G. Baker's < Synopsis of MalveaB ' will, it is hoped, be 

 completed by the end of the year. 



General Paris, of Dinard, Ille-et-Vilaine, France, is preparing 

 a Nomenclator Bryologicus on the plan of Steudel's Nomenclator 

 Botcmicus, and will be grateful if bryologists will send him copies of 

 recent memoirs, or exact references to the descriptions of new 



species 



Naturalists 



to draw up lists of the fauna and flora of Bromley Union district, 

 which comprises the parishes of Beckenham, Bromley, Chelsfield, 

 Chislehurst, Cadham, Down, Farnborough, the Crays, Hayes, 

 Keston, Knockholt, Mottingham, Orpington, and West Wickham. 

 If properly carried out, the work should form an important contri- 

 bution to the long-delayed and much needed Flora of Kent, upon 

 which our readers will be glad to know that Mr. F. J. Hanbury is 

 at the present time actively engaged. The Bromley naturalists will 

 no doubt exercise caution with regard to the flora of Keston 

 Common, on which the improver upon Nature has been at work, as 

 we mentioned on p. 224. Mr. J. French, 99, Widmore Road, 

 Bromley, will be glad to receive information. 



Mr. J. Bretland Farmer, the Demonstrator of Botany in 

 Oxford University, has succeeded Dr. D. H. Scott as Assistant- 

 Professor in Botany at the Eoyal College of Science, South 

 Kensington. Dr. Scott has accepted the Keepership of the Jodrell 

 Laboratory at Kew. 



Mr. J. G. Baker has reprinted in book form the Summary of 



New Ferns discovered or described since 1874 (Clarendon Press ; 



14 cash price 5s. net "). 



M. J. Bornmuller, who started last winter for an exploring 

 tour in Persia, left Teheran early in the year for Kum and 

 Sultanabad, and went from there to Ispahan by way of Gulpaigam. 

 All the way from Sultanabad to Ispahan he met with an abundant 

 but monotonous flora of bulbous plants, besides which little else 

 was to be seen. He notes especially Merendera persica and jtf. 

 sobolifera, Colchicum Szovitzii, Iris persica, and various Gageas. 

 Then he spent nine days from Ispahan to Yezd, and twelve from 

 Yezd to Kerman. An excursion from Yezd to the Shir Kuh 

 mountains, which he says were bristling with snow and ice, was 

 successful only in the lower parts, as the season was not advanced 



