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The Supplement to Britten and Holland's Dictionary of English 

 Plant Names is in active preparation, and will, it is hoped, be 

 included in the English Dialect Society's publications for the 

 current year. Any lists of local names, or even single examples, 

 will be gladly received by the Editor of this Journal. 



We have received the first two numbers of the Records of the 

 Botanical Survey of India, published under the direction of Dr. King. 

 The first contains an account of Mr. J. F. Duthie's botanical tour 

 in Kashmir in 1892 ; the second is devoted to Mr. G. A. Gammie's 

 tour in Sikkim, and has already appeared in the Bulletin of Miscel- 

 laneous Information; it was referred to at p. 62. Each number is 

 paged separately, which seems an inconvenient arrangement for 



future reference. 



The first number of Science Progress, "a monthly review of 

 current scientific investigation," has been issued. It is "edited 

 by Mr. J. B. Farmer, and "conducted by" Mr. H. C. Burdett— a 

 dual control which strikes us as somewhat novel, and of doubtful 

 practicability. It is handsomely printed, on good paper, but 

 104 pages of large type, without illustrations, is somewhat dear 

 at half-a-crown. ^Mr. Hemsley contributes a paper on " Insular 



publications on the subject, but does not materially add to our 

 knowledge; and Mr. A. C. Seward writes on "Fossil Plants." 

 There is no provision for news, notes, reviews, or correspondence, 

 and, so far as we can judge from this first issue, "current scientific 

 investigation" will continue to be better represented by Natural 

 Science than by this more imposing and more expensive review. 



A new Portuguese natural history publication— Annaes de 

 Sci, ucias Naturaes — the January number of which has just reached 

 us, has made its appearance this year. It is edited by Sefior 

 Augusto Nobre, and is to appear quarterly. The present part 

 contains a paper by Mr. Edwin J. Johnston, who, in spite of his 

 English name, writes in Portuguese, entitled " Esbo^o de um 

 Calendario da Flora dos arredores do Porto." Two quite shocking 

 "phototypes" of plants do not ornament the number. 



Minnesota Botanical Studies is the title of "Bulletin No. 9" of 

 the Geological and Natural History Survey of Minnesota, which is 

 to be issued by the " state botanist," Mr. Conway MacMillan, " in 

 occasional parts until a volume is completed." It is practically a 

 local botanical journal, and may become useful. This number 

 contains papers by Mr. E. P. Sheldon, who seems likely to take 

 high honours in the topsyturvy school of nomenclature which some 

 American botanists are working so hard to establish. 



Among the books awaiting notice are Prof. Willkomm's Supple- 

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volume) of Miss Woolward's Monograph of Masdevallia ; the Letters 

 of Asa Gray; and M. Drake del Castillo's Flore de la Polynesie 

 Franqaise. 



