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818 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ée. 
At the meeting of the Linnean Society on June 8rd, 1903, there 
were shown a hundred pen-and-ink drawings of British oe 
made by Mr. EK. W. Hunnybun, of Huntingdon. For many years 
Mr. Hunnybun has been engaged on a series of annie of living 
British gece! Ra in flower and fruit, and of natural size ; ; the 
place of growth being recorded in all cases. The artist is anxious 
to secure the hein’ field-botanists in obtaining aes specimens 
of critical species for secret in oe) seri an ea ntended, if 
sufficient support be forthcoming, to ee drawings, 
reproduced in the highest bipte of sapvieitie eicsinated), that may 
accomplish for British botany something like what has been done 
Helvetica. This work was begun in 18384, and is still in progress, 
parts being issued at somewhat rare intervals, at present under the 
direction of Prof. Beck . Seceayrtom The plates which accom- 
pany the third edition of English Botany scarcely reflect high credit 
on scientific plant- illnatration i in this country, and it is Mr. Hunny- 
un’s ambition to produce an illustrated British aie worthy to 
be compared with the German model. He will be glad to hear from 
British botanists who are in favour of the scheme proposed, who 
are willing to lend support, both financially and by senate living 
specimens of critical species and varieties. In the event of publi- 
cation, the cost to subscribers will depend to a great extent on the 
nn mber of names sent in. No pains will be peared in the process 
of reproducing the drawings, in making them scientifically accurate, 
as well as beautiful examples of (ae illustration. In the scheme 
as at present outlined it is not proposed to issue any letterpress 
; : tani 
ure are invited to communicate with Mr. E. W. Hunnybun, 
Fil House, Buckden, Huntingdon 
first of a series of six eohimes on J'rees, by Prof. Marshall 
Ward, has been issued in the Cambridge Biological Series (8vo, 
pp. xiv, 271, price 4s. 6d. net). It is devoted to * Buds and Twigs,” 
and is an extremely Con ea survey of practically all that is 
nown—or at any rate all that the ordinary student need know— 
about them. The attractiveness of the book is greatly enhanced py 
the numerous and excellent illustrations, those of twigs, drawn for 
this volume by Miss Dawson, of the County School, Cambridge, 
for ‘closer work in the field,” the importance of which he fully 
recognizes and which such books as this are likely to stimulate. 
Tax most recent issue (vol. x. part 1) of the Annals of the Royal 
Botanic Garden, Calcutta, is devoted to a monograph of ‘‘ the Species 
of Dalbergia of South-eastern Asia,” by oo Prain, illustrated by 
ninety-one excellent plates by native artists 
Tue nineteenth fascicle has appeared of M. Rouy’s expensive 
Illustrationes Plantarum Europe rariorum—* reproduction photo- 
graphique des Exemplaires existant dans les grandes collections 
