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Journal de Botanique (Nov. 1 , 16). — P. Vuillemin, « Modifications 

 de l'eperon chez les Tropaolum et les Pelargonium: — F. Jadin, 

 ' Observations sur quelques Terebinthacees.'— (Nov. 1). G. Poirault, 

 'Les Uredinees et leurs plant - iioumcn' res.' — (Nov. 16, Dec. 1). 

 L. Guignard, ' Localisation des principes actifs chez les Cap- 

 paridees,' &c — (Dec. 1). F. Hy, Isoetes tenuissima. — A. Lemaire, 

 ' Un nouveau procede de preparations microscopiques d'Algues.' 



Notarisia (No. 5). — P. Paolo, 'I laghi Alpini Valtellinesi : Valle 

 del Liro (Spluga).' 



Oesterr. Bot. Zeitschrift. (Dec). — F. Hohnel, ' Zur Kenntniss 

 der Laubmoosflora des Kiistenstricbes vom Gorzer Becken bis 

 Skutari.' — J. Freyn, ' Plants novse Orientales.' — K. Fritscb, 

 Sapromyces, gen. nov. {Nagelia Eeinsch, non alior.). — A. v. Degen, 

 • Bemerkungen iiber einige orientalische Pflanzenarten . '— G . Evers, 

 ' Botanische MiLtheilungen.' 



BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dc. 



Mr. Alexander Stephen Wilson died in Aberdeen on Nov. 16th, 

 in the sixty-seventh year of his age. By profession a civil engineer, 

 and largely concerned in the construction of railways in the north 

 of Scotland, Mr. Wilson devoted much of his leisure to botanical 

 researches, especially of an experimental and practical kind ; many 

 of these bore upon the ergot of grasses, the hybridisation of and 

 fertilisation of cereals, and kindred subjects. His conclusions with 

 regard to the supposed "sclerotia" of Phytopthora infeshnis were 

 called in question in these pages by the late Dr. Walter Flight and 

 Mr. Murray [Journ. Bot. 1883, 370). Mr. Wilson was the author 

 of various works on the lines above indicated, among them being 

 The Botany of Three Periods (1878) and A Bushel „f Corn (1883). 

 He also wrote a number of humorous botanical verses, such as 

 "A Mycological Serenade," "The Ballade of the Ovularian Zoo- 

 phore," &c. He was a man of very varied attainments, but is said 

 to have been "peculiarly shy and reserved." 



The death of Dr. George Bennett, of Sydney, at the age of 

 ninety, is also recorded. We hope to receive from Australia a more 

 complete biography of this veteran naturalist than has yet appeared 

 in this country, and we therefore reserve until then any furtber 

 notice. Dr. Bennett's name appears among the contributors to the 

 earlier volumes of this Journal. 



The Transactions of the Dumfriesshire Nitural W»t-r, 

 1892-3 contains several papers of botanical interest. Mr. G. F. 

 Scott Elliot writes on the influence of insects on flowers ; Mr. 

 Arthur Bennett on some Scottish Orobanches ; Mr. J. Fingland 

 on Nithsdale Willows ; and the Bev. George Wilson contributes a 

 list of the plants of Glenluce, Wigtownshire. The "reader" 

 appears to have been on his holidays while the 'Transactions was 

 passing through the press. 



