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The second part of Dr. Trimen's Flora of Ceylon brings the 

 enumeration down to the end of Bubiacea. By a change in the 

 mode of publication, the work will now form four volumes instead 

 of two, as at first contemplated, and will thus be less convenient for 

 field use than might have been wished. We have already expressed 

 our opinion of the admirable manner in which Dr. Trimen is 

 carrying out this important work, and this second instalment con- 

 firms us in the view that we have in the Flora of Ceylon a new 

 departure in the methods of colonial floras. We hope that nothing 

 will occur to prevent the speedy completion of this excellent 

 undertaking. 



The Keport for last year of the Epsom College Natural History 

 Society contains a good record of work by the Botanical Section, 

 the Secretary of which until lately was Mr. F. A. Rogers, son of the 

 Rev. W. Moyle Rogers. There is a very full list of plants observed 

 during the year, to which the date of first flowering is in most 

 instances attached. 



British botanists will be glad to see that Mr. F. J. Hanbury 

 has resumed the publication of his British Jlh r^da. The new 

 part (vi.) contains plates of Hieramim Marshalli (described in this 

 Journal for 1891, p. 271) and two forms of H. chrysanthum, which 

 are, like their predecessors, beautifully executed. We defer a 

 lengthier notice of this important monograph until the work is 

 further advanced. 



Adolph Leipner, whose death took place at Clifton on April 1st, 

 was born Aug. 13th, 1827, near Dresden. At the age of sixteen he 

 went to a college in Dresden, where he took charge of the Museum ; 

 after completing his course there, he taught in a public school, and 

 in 1847 came to England, and settled in Clifton in 1854. In 1862 

 the Bristol Naturalists' Society was founded, mainly through his 

 influence ; he was its Honorary Secretary from the beginning, and 

 retained the post until May, 1893, when he was elected President. 

 Mr. Leipner was connected with the Bristol University College from 

 its foundation, first as Lecturer on Botany and German; subse- 

 quently he was made Professor of Botany, which post he retained 

 until shortly before his death. He formed the botanical garden 

 in connection with the College. Mr. Leipner was a very keen 

 microscopist, and was for many years a member of the Bristol 

 Microscopical Society. In 1857 he published in the Journal of 

 Microscopical Science (v. 134) an article on the presence of silica in 

 the Paibiacece, and in 1868 he contributed a paper " On the Mosses 

 of the Bristol District" to the Proceedings of the Bristol Natural 

 History Society (iii. 21), in which journal he also published on 

 other subjects. 



The number of the Essex Naturalist published last month 

 contains an excellent " provisional list of the Marine Algae of 

 Essex and the adjacent coast" by Mr. E. A. L. Batters. 



The notes which should accompany Mr. F. J. Hanbury's List 

 of British Hieracia, issued with this number, are unavoidably 

 deferred until our August issue. 



