286 ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 
We ought ere this to have noticed Mr. W. Jolly’s ‘Life of John 
Duncan, Scotch Weaver and Botanist’ (1794-1881), (Kegan Paul & 
Co.). It is a biography of the style with which Mr. Smiles has 
made us familiar, and of a man of the type of Robert Dick and 
Thomas Edward; and we do not intend to disparage its merit 
when we say that both in subject and treatment it seems to us to 
fall short of the two lives just named. But Mr. Jolly has nails too 
er of wonder to us that no work » similar style has been — 
bare Soe nin Lancashire who Acer like as much adie on 
public aiied! as either John Duncan or Mr. Smiles’s Scotch 
protégés. In the Appendix is given a ‘ List of Plants found in the 
barn ee — and the surrounding districts . bar eabasienc and 
on other plants found in Duncan’s herbarium. 
panei stahed portrait of Duncan in has srgibie mpi year serves 
sac nemtate to the vo olume. 
beings and upon natural forces’; and in this he seems to have 
succeeded. We aero that the pressure on our space prevents our 
giving a more detailed notice 
Messrs. W. Swan ipaaicaekta & Co. have just added to their 
marvellouly a series of ‘ ee Collectors’ Handbooks’ one on 
‘Flowering Plants’ by Mr. Britten. It would obviously be unfitting 
to say ers in this Journal ; an the fact that a handbook devoted 
to the collection and preservation of plants, consisting of thirty-two 
bidet meaty pages, fully illustrated, can be obtained for the sum of 
€ penny is sufficiently remarkable to claim this word of notice. 
The same publishers send us ‘A Season among the Wild Flowers,’ 
y the Rev. ~ Weasieas e of those popular introductions cdl : 
ARTICLES IN JouRNsLS.—AUvGUST. 
American Journal of Science. — J. 8. Newberry, ‘ Fossil Plants 
from North China.’ — A. Gray & J. H. Trumbull, ‘ Review of De 
-Candolle’s Origin of Cultivated Plants’ pases a 
American Naturalist. — K. J. Hill, « ee: of plant-dispersion.’ 
— M. E. Jones, ‘New Plants from California and Nevada, &c.’ 
( — neglectum, Sisymbrium saseslennpaal; Sidalcea calycosa, 
spp. nn 
Ann. Sciences Nat. (Bot., 6th §., t. xv., Nos. 5, 6: June).— 
A. Franchet, ‘ Plantes du beckenee ( contd. : Seite neuro- 
phyllus, A. intarrensis, 4. variegatus, Oxytropis tachtensis, 0. Capusit, 
