62 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
divided as it is under seven heads, does not seem to us sufficiently 
useful to compensate for the labour involved in its compilation; a 
complete index to the Hooker Journals has, of course, long been a 
the sevenfold division of the present instalment — from 
whatever tiara — might otherwise attach to 
We note that Sir Joseph, when speaking of the séqiiaition by 
the Government of Sir William’s Herbarium, does not mention the 
terms upon which this transference took place. A memorandum 
of Sir Richard te now before us, enables us to supply this 
information. It runs :— 
‘In a eteasins or report to the Office of Works, Sir W. Hooker 
proposes that, after his demise, ‘4 [? 6] competent botanists or 
other naturalis of eminence = Fat aeenete: 3 on the part of H.M. 
Government, and 3 on the par y son, to arrange the terms of 
purchase.’ Dr. Hooker a (March 4, 1866) that ‘the values 
assigned ws the Herbarium varied between £5000 and £10,000.’ 
In a Treasury Minute of Oct. 13, 1866,‘ their Lordships have 
directed that provision may be made in the Estimates for 1867-8 
submitted to Parliament in the ensuing session’; and 
Vote 
- for the Herbarium £5000, for the library £1000, for por- 
iealbe: &c., £1000.” The names of the valuers were not known 
to Owen. 
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Syllabus der Pflanzenfamilien. Von Dr. Avotr Evneter. Third, 
revised Sh 8vo, pp. xxvii. 233. Borntraeger: Berlin. 
1903. Price 4 marks. 
HE chief lea iogpbese the third edition of Prof. Engler’s 
syllabus of plant families and the second, published in 1898, are 
the rein oo of an inteoduetory chapter on the principles of the 
systematic arrangement, which was omitted from the second 
edition; a saich of the division of the earth into floral regions and 
their subdivision ; and an alteration in the grouping of the Thallo- 
phyta Zoidiogama Bkeckag iate), and E. Siphonogama (Phanero- 
ame). The Hnthallophyte included the four subsections : Schizo- 
phyta, Flagellate, Euphycee (Alge), and EKumycetes (Fungi). In 
the present edition shel are thirteen sections. The increase in 
number is due to the raising to sectional rank the Schizophyta, 
Flagellate, and mx — as well as the classes of Euphycee. 
Thus the Alge, as a group, disappear, and we have a number o 
distinct sections: Dindfagetinkis (Peridinex), Zygophycew, Chloro- 
— Charales, Pheophycee, eRe lorry es, and Rhodop 
Apart from al ti 
a Peewee. same 
coccales, Contertalee, and ear and there is no rer tee to the 
