128 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
the ferns of the Western Himalayas. In 1896, after a — 
of illness, he returned to England and settled at Kew e he 
devoted himself to the elaboration of his extensive salleotintia, 
The results of his work are given in an important and extensive 
e published in 
vols. xii.-xv. of the Journal of the Bombay Natural History Society 
(1899-1903); this contains descriptions of about two hundred 
_ and is es by excellent plates from drawings by 
Messrs. N. E. and and native artists. The 
distinctions on as h ee based his saan were often minute ; 
hese will doubtless be reduced by future workers, but in 
the introduction to the paper just mentioned he explains and justi- 
fies his saps and there can be no doubt as to the carefulness of 
his work. In 1889 Hope oo a collection of Assam ferns to 
ras National pa eg a ; In 1890 he described four new Lastreas 
m Assam in this Journal, to which in 1896 he contributed a 
shart paper on oy ferns collected during the Chitral Expedition 
1895). Hope’s last published paper—an extremely interesting 
study of the botany of the ‘‘ sadd”’ of the Upper Nile—appeared in 
the Annals of ee for September, 1902. He died at Kew on the 
18th of Februar 
In the late Dr. David Moore’s Report on Irish Hepatice (Proc. 
Roy. Irish Academy, ser. 2, vol. ii. 1876, pp. 591-672), one hundred 
and thirty-seven species were enumerated. It represented forty 
years of work, and was trustworthy as to species and localities, 
nearly every one of the plants having been collected by Dr. Moore 
himself. Mr. McArdle oa proved himself to be a worthy successor — 
by his diligent investigations of the county hepatic floras; he has 
ublished some eighteen papers on the subject, two of whi ap- 
peared in this Jo ie His List of Irish Hepatice (Proc. Roy. Irish 
Acad. xxiv. 8387-502 (1904)) is a summary of all that is known of 
the distribution of the hepatic in Ireland, and contains one hun 
and seventy-two species and sixty-three varieties. The more im- 
portant synonyms, references ie literature, the localities, collectors, 
and dates are stated; and a short account of the earlier Irish col- 
sists, of the ohveeat features of the country, of the peculiarities 
of the Irish hepatic flora, and a bibliography of the principal papers 
on the subject, are added.—A. G. 
Ricsarp pe Gyipyn Benson, who died at Church Pulverbatch, 
Salop, on Feb. 24, was born there June 25th, 1856. For many 
years he practised in London as a solicitor, but failing health com- 
pelled his retirement from practice, and he returned to Pulverbach, 
where he took up the study of mosses, which he pursued with much 
success. He was also collecting material for a new Flora of Shrop- 
shire, to be issued by the Caradoc and Severn Valley Field Club, of 
which he was a member. A collection of his eo en con- 
taining about 250 species, is in the National Herbari 
WE regret to announce the death after a ean til of Professor 
Kart Scuumann, of the Berlin Botanic Muse 
