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. some length our sense of the ~osermntet ric preg: of this 
andbook; in its present form it is e convenient for the study, 
paar perhaps not so handy for the, Backs t, nui “he revision is by 
no means merely nominal, as it sometimes is in works of this kind. 
Probably no one book gives so much general See tion in so small 
— and we gladly recommend it both as a text-book for 
students and as a work of reference. But wy is Mr. Willis so 
unwilling to pay tribute to the British Museum collections? In 
our former notice the reviewer pointed out that the statement that 
Cromwell Road. Mr. ae now substitutes ‘‘ some” for ‘‘most’’; 
can he name any other 
A LARGE number of feet accepted Professor Marshall Ward’s 
invitation to witness the opening of the new Botanical School at 
ambridge by the King on March 1st. The large plain well-lighted 
building occupies one “side of the new quadrangle which has been 
erected on the south side of Downing Street, opposite the Medical 
School. It forms an oblong block 200 ft. long by 40 ft. wide, and 
has been a ae at a cost, including fittings, of £25 000. On the 
ground floor are a large lecture room, wit accommodation for two 
hundred vitideite, the “herbarium, and the museum; on the first floor 
are the library, the morphological and chemical rt cig i. the 
professor’s laboratory, the two lecturers’ private wor ing rooms, and 
a 
in plant diseases. The second floor contains the large laboratory 
for elementary students, the phases laboratory, and the private 
rooms of the Reader and demonstrators. On the flat roof are con- 
veniences for experimental work, and also a well-lighted greenhouse. 
Professor Ward and his sellaageke are to be congratulated on their 
new botanical home and their long roll of students, which bear re 
mony to the vigour and progress of the Cambridge School of Botan 
(By an oversight this paragraph was omitted from our last mee ) 
In Nature Notes for April is an article on ‘ The Pollination of 
the Primrose = Oe the anonymous author of The Com and Dar 
— oe Sei the press: ghee this notice we exitaal ~— 
following particulars se Agee ev. Edward Bell was born at 
Uppingham, January 26 and was er at Uppingham 
School and Trinity Collen ‘Cambridge He acted as curate of 
Gainford, Darham, and perpetual curate of ese: Armley, Leeds, 
and from 1868 to 1890 was vicar of St. John’s, Wakefield. Here 
his health broke down from overwork and he retired, devoting all 
his time to natural ee pursuits, and oveasionally shane 
O magazines. Having, after a few years’ rest, recovered m 
his health, he essing ‘a great walker, being gurisslgaly f fond of 
Surrey commons. He was a keen and accurate observer, specially 
devoting his attention to flowers and bees, and well earning the 
title he gave himself of ‘A Field Naturalist.’ s Mr. Bell’s death, 
