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to meet with an exception of such special merits in this respect as 

 Prof. Haberlandt's book. It may be warmly recommended to all 

 who have a moderate facility in reading German as an excellent 

 account of tropical vegetation, and the biological problems that are 

 connected with it. The illustrations from the author's sketches 

 are not things of beauty, nor are they exactly instructive. This is 

 to be regretted the more since good pictures are the only things 

 left to be desired. 



It is impossible in short compass to give an adequate idea of 

 the "Festschrift" of the Buitenzorg garden edited by Dr. Treub on 

 the occasion of the 75th anniversary of its establishment. The 

 principal reason for this is the condensed character of the contents 

 of the book. One can hardly do better than merely say that if 

 anyone wishes to know anything of Buitenzorg and its history he 

 will find it here, or if he desires information as to the aims, 

 utility, constitution and character of a tropical botanical garden, he 

 could hardly do better than select this volume. The introductory 

 chapter is a reprinted address by Dr. Treub, the Director, on the 

 aims of a tropical garden, delivered by him on the 75th anniversary 

 of the Hortus Bogoriensis. It is followed by a history of the gardens 

 by the Director, and by special descriptions of the several parts of 

 it and its institutions by Drs. Burck, Janse, and Van Romburgh, 

 his assistants. The reader will gain by even a casual inspection of 

 this admirable volume (illustrated with excellent photographs), an 

 idea of the great activity in the advance of Botany of wbich this 

 famous garden has been the scene. There is a catalogue here of 

 those who have visited the gardens for research, and to select a few 

 of the recent names will recall the fruits of their visit : — Graf zu 

 Solms-Laubach, Prof. Goebel, Mevrouw Weber van Bosse, Dr. 

 Warburg, Prof. Schimper, Dr. Karsten, Prof. Stahl, Prof. Haber- 

 landt — but there is a page here of them, and it is perhaps invidious 

 to choose at all. 



What have we to show like this ? The munificence of German 

 Universities enables its teachers to make these journeys, and the 

 sole corresponding institution in this country is the excellent but 

 necessarily limited arrangement for the occasional export of a young 

 botanist to Peradeniya. Let us hope that this seedling will yet 

 grow up, flourish, and bear fruit. G. M. 



The British Moss-Flora. By R. Braithwaite, M.D. Part XV. 

 December, 1893. London : 303, Clapham Eoad. Price 6s. 



This fine monograph is now so far advanced that only one more 

 part is needed to complete the Acrocarpi and the second volume. 

 " Vol. iii. will comprise the Pleurocarpi and Sphagna." 



The present part contains forty pages and six plates in illustra- 

 tion of thirty-one species. The genera treated of are six : — Bryum 

 (end), ConostomUM, Bartramia, Fhilonotis, Breutelia, Catoscopium ; 

 the five latter constituting the family Bartiamiacea. Dr. Braith- 

 waite has conferred upon bryologists no small benefit by his care- 

 fully elaborated treatment of the British species of the difficult 



