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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, Ac. 



Mr. S. A Stewart, who resigned the curatorship of the Belfast 

 Museum, in May last, has presented his herbarium and palaeonto- 

 logical collection to that institution. At the annual meeting of the 

 Belfast Natural History and Philosophical Society on Sep. 27th 

 many tributes were paid to Mr. Stewart's work, especially in con- 

 nection with the Belfast Naturalists' Field Club t of which he was 

 one of the founders and on whose committee he served for forty 

 years. Mr. Stewart's address is now 342, Springfield Eoad, Belfast. 



Dr. J. Reynolds Green's Introduction to Vegetable Physiology, 

 which w r as commended in this Journal on its first appearance in 

 1900, has passed into a second edition. The differences between 

 this and the original issue are very slight, as but few changes 

 were necessary. It is published by Messrs J. & A. Churchill, price 

 10s. 6d. net. 



Flowering Trees and Shrubs, by Henry Hoare (Humphreys ; 

 price 7s. 6d.) 9 is a handsomely printed little quarto volume con- 

 taining a monthly calendar, a descriptive portion arranged alpha- 

 betically under the Latin names, and lists of trees and shrubs 

 suited to various localities. It is illustrated with plates by 

 Gertrude Hamilton, somewhat coarsely coloured, but occasionally 

 — e. g. Ghimonanthus — excellent. The descriptions are somewhat 

 meagre and sometimes contain quaint remarks — e. g. it is said of 

 Gercis Siliquastrum : " Some say that Judas hanged himself from 

 one of its branches; but one prefers to connect no episode so 

 painful with it " ! 



Prof. J. B. Farmer, of the Koyal College of Science, has been 

 appointed editor of the Gardeners 1 Chronicle in succession to the 

 late Dr. Masters. 



The recently published Census Catalogue of British Mosses 

 (York : Coultas and Volans. 63 pp. Price Is. 6d., or 2s. inter- 

 leaved), compiled by members of the Moss Exchange Club, is a 

 valuable and useful addition to bryological literature. It provides 

 an almost complete record of the distribution of each species and 

 variety, and is the result of much patient research and careful 

 revision. By means of a series of indicative numbers this distribu- 

 tion is recorded against each of the 619 species and their varieties 

 throughout the 112 Watsonian vice-county divisions of Great 

 Britain and R. Lloyd Praeger's 40 county divisons of Ireland. 

 This record must prove of the greatest value to local collectors, as 

 showing the ascertained flora of each division, and as revealing 

 the districts which call for further investigation. Explanatory 

 notes are supplied by Mr. W. Ingham and by Mr. H. N. Dixon, 

 and are followed by a table of the county divisions with their 

 reference numbers and their boundary limits. The very numerous 

 sources from which the Catalogue has been compiled are duly set 

 forth in detail, carefully arranged in a geographical sequence. 

 This bibliography forms an almost exhaustive record of the very 

 scattered papers on British bryology, and includes also references 

 to many manuscript lists. — A. G. 



