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number of these larve feeding on the conidia of species of Erysiphe 
and Spherotheca were reared, and a Dipterous fly belonging to the 
Cecidomyiide was obtained. This fly has eng determined by Abbé 
Kieffer as belonging to the genus Mycodiplosi. 
Tue interesting and beautiful show or ‘vittetiee of Primula 
sinensis which filled the tables at the Linnean Society’s ea 
which seemed abatrdly ) Bes at a meeting of a reavited 
Society; this was tallow Es Mr. femme paper on wheat hybrids, 
succeeded by a disquisition, as long as the paper, on waltzing and 
pink-eyed mice and their hybrids, Roti Prof, Weldon. The Director 
of Kew protested his inability to a the connection between wheat 
d Hands; except in granaries, and the President somewhat feebly 
endeavoured to restrict the length a ‘the dlettithidteauioihe but, not- 
withstanding signs of impatience on the part of some persons, Prof. 
Weldon held on his way; and the necessity of catching trains 
pape ich t 
that the principal paper of the evening should occupy the first place 
in the proceedings, and assuredly time should not be wasted upon 
exhibitions such as that to which we have referre 
James THomas Powe t, who died at Parkstone, Dorset on Jan.14, 
was ae at Daventry, Northamptonshire, on Apri 833. For 
rs he was ‘‘ Method Master’? and Tutor of the Government 
Teaihing ‘Colles of Teachers under the Congregational Board of 
Education, but in 1900 resigned his post through ill-health and 
settled at Parkstone. He was Treasurer of the Watson Exchange 
Club from 1885-1900; his name is commemorated in Rubus Powellii, 
which he discovered, and which is described in this Journal for 1894, 
-47. Mrs. Rogers is anxious to dispose of his herbarium of British 
plants, which is contained in a suitable cabinet ; communications 
may be addressed to her at 77, Broadfield Road, Catford, 8. 
WE are accustomed to eccentricity in connection with Bulletins,” 
but the one of which ‘No. 1” has just been issued by the Colorado 
College Museum is perhaps the oddest, as it is Faroe the smallest, 
that has yet appeared. It is a single leaflet of two pages, and is de- 
voted to an article on ‘ — Colorado Rubber Plant ”’ by Mr.T.D.A. 
Cockerell, who describes a new species, Picradenia Earle, and two 
The leaflet is dated 11 Dec. 1903. It is, we think, a 
be reckoned as a publication; but even if so, it is difficult to justify 
its existence. Surely Mr. Cockerel would do better to publish his 
brevities in one of the Am n botanical journals, where they 
would receive a pra ehioh: this literary fragment can hardly 
be expected to o 
Tue Religions “Teast Society has just-issued (price 3s. 6d.) a 
volume giving an account of Tuomas Waxertetp, ‘“ Missionary and 
