64 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
for South Africa will be done for many other colonies. The volume is 
illustrated by over a hundred figures, and clearly printed; there are two 
indexes, —— one should suffice. With this volume and the list by 
Dr. Bolus and Major Wolley-Dod, the ri . tence 
have no a in working at the botany of t ape Peninsula. 
v. JoHN Stevenson, who died at ee near Rovtat r, on 
November ‘27, 1903, was born at Coupar crac on the borders of 
Forfarshire and Perthshire, in 1886. In 1850 he went to the Uni- 
Macy of St. Andrews (which in 1888 conferred on him the degree 
L.D.) and was licensed as a preacher in the Kstablished Chureh 
or Sena in 1859, and became Minister of Glamis in 1873. Here 
he prosecuted with much success the study of fungi, ia a large 
number to Berkeley, who named and recorded them in his ‘ Notices.” 
Not content with discovering and forwarding forms to be named, 
Stevenson made a careful personal mate especially of the Hymeno- 
mycetes, and was recognized a authority on these 
took an active part in the foandation of the Scottish Cryptogamie 
Society in 1874, of which he was secretary almost from its formation 
ogta 
which were enumerated all ‘the forms ‘that aa been vablished he 
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tribute largely to periodical publications; three short papers from 
his pen appeared in the Scottish Naturalist for 1877-8. In 1886 ap- 
his principal work, British oat Uy tested tet 3 thisis based 
n Fries, for whose work he had great ration embodies the 
vsnsntehies of Bévkstey and other miyaolngiet Ss. finap notice of 
Stevenson will be found in the Annals of Scottish Natural History 
for January, to which we are indebted for the above information. 
Tae Rev. H. J. Rivperspeiti, M.A., of St. Michael’s College, q 
Aberdare, Glamorgan, is accumulating material for a preliminary 
list of Glamorganshire plants. He would be much obliged if readers 
of this Journal would furnish him with any material, either literary 
or the result of individual field-work, such as lists of plants made in 
any locality of the county, or information as to specimens contained 
n herbaria. Mr. Riddelsdell would at once acknowledge any com- 
munications pes to him at the above address. 
ce Harrapen’s recent novel mpaeitei Frensham — 
Miss Brea N’s recent n 
contains a e608 deal about Wir won tniile and plan 8, s, and a severe 
criticism on un-English methods which we rat is unmerited. 
‘Tt is a barbarous country, t this suihen d,” says one of the charac- 
ters. ‘I know nothing about politics, thank heaven, nothing about 
war, and so forth. But this I can tell you: that En ngland is the 
only country which refused to exchange botanical specimens with 
our Botanical Museum. The barbarian director wrote a rude letter.” 
We think there must be some mistake; at any rate, no offer of 
exchange ai Re: pee at the National Herbarium. Miss- 
arraden a high opinion of the intelligence of botan ists 5 
one of her ectielete is styled * an unilluminated botanical duffer.” 
