858 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
“Sic D. Jacobus Dick Y. pariter me curante, cum 
Abrahamo THomas sylvarum sigh Aesleg Spelugam, Claven- 
nam, vallem Tellinam, juga oeckgen iensia, montesque Trone & Irala, 
Seminars altissim mum montem Septimemn adiit, inde per Furculam, 
‘atts rarissimis plant s ditatus. Porro alpes Valesiacas Salanfe, 
e alp i 
te impositas valli Kienthal, & regionem subalpinam, 
circa Spier utiliter peragravit.”’ 
ie work as a collector of Finmark plants; he i is likewise named 
- J, Hartman’s Handbok i lee ei Flora. 
article. The particulars of the Lenin contents of the herbaria 
of Sloane and Banks, detailed with reference to the geographical 
sources, form a very v valuable enumeration. In the list of ‘the more 
important contributors are interspersed many original notes, and 
mention is made of MS. descriptions which are preserved in the 
s 
Britten has printed learned memoranda on the a The account 
contrasts favourably with the very meagre in information regarding the 
Kew Herbarium which was published in the Bulletin of Miscellaneous 
lnfoienial for 1901. It is to be regretted that, owing to the di 
aa ot of the Annual Reports of the Royal Gans aad the 
essation of the Bulletin, botanists have now no means of knowing 
sor collections are acquired by Kew a. ch Hi: 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, 
rn. Francis Bossey, who was meters included in the first 
alana to the Biographical Index of British Botanists, sa " 
his residence at Redhill, Surrey, on Sept. 27th. He was b 
Sutton-at-Hone, Kent, Oct. 21 st, 1809, studied at Guy’s Sapien 
and in Paris, and took his M.D. in Glas asgow, after which he was for 
any years in practice at Woolwich, from which he retired in 1867, 
and settled at Redhill, He wasa member of the Botanical Society 
of London, before which, in 1838, he read a paper on fungi which 
attack cereals: in the following year he published some notes on 
Kent plants in the Annals and Magazine of Natural History ne 
also contributed to Gibson’s Flora of Essex (1862). Bossey W 
Fellow of the Royal Microscopical Society, and when he settle d “at 
Redhill took much interest in establishing the local microscopical 
society (now defunct), of which he was the first President. His 
rium is to be presented to the Holmesdale Natural History 
Club. He is buried in the family vault at Sutton-at-Hone. 
