64 THE JOURNAL OF BUTANY 
it is, we think, to be regretted that the plates and text are num- 
bered continuously ; ; each, however, is so printed that any arrange- 
ment may be adopted in binding up. Mr. C. HE. Faxon’s plates 
are doubtless sR but their a ent might : aalily be im- 
proved ; there seems no reason for such a together of frag- 
ments as appears in Malus lisloen aan other: 
r. J. C. Wiis has followed his revision - A Indian Podo- 
indtve, to which we referred last year (p. 304), by some elaborate 
studies in the morphology and ecology of the bbdat which forms 
part 4 of the first volume of the Annals of the anes. ete 
The paper, which is evidently a valuable contribution to the kno 
ledge of these curious plants, is illustrated by thirty- eines pinellett 
plates. 
nem, re fascicle (cxxvi.) of the second volume of M. Co- 
onogra ph of the Orchidacee of the Flora Brasiliensis was 
published 4 in December 
THE appearance = a — part of the Chinese Flora (Journ. 
Linn. Bod, XXXvi. pp. 1-72, Jan. 1) so soon after the last long-delayed 
apie neat is a happy augury for the speedy progress of that useful 
ork. It is mainly devoted to the Orehidew (by Mr. Rolfe), oe 
has Sots treated being Hydrocharidacea, Burmanniacea, an 
part) Scitaminee, by Mr. C. H. Wright. Mr. Rolfe has ceetaoked 
Dr. Rendle’s paper in this Journal for 1902 (p. 810) and has thus 
omitted from his enumeration the genera Calanthe and Heteria, 
there added to the Chinese Flora 
WE are glad that the Linnea Society has decided to take steps 
=o mone = pee gore hm of its Charter as will allow of the ad- 
of w s Fellows. This action, with which we are in 
full § sympathy, ray aevly due to the persevering action of Mrs. 
argquharson, of Haughton, Aberdeenshire. Mrs. Farquharson 
deserves al er edit for her Do lapeati efforts, and it may be that, as 
the Daily Chronicle Suggests, she will be ‘‘ the first lady to be 
elected to fellowship’’; but we can hardly gal with that paper, or 
am, 
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she is ‘herself a distinguished sei oat .: t h 
‘works ’’ “ entitle her to a place among the erentite eothorhosd 1 
The only work we have seen of hers—A Pocket Guide to British 
Ferns (pp. 96), published in 1881 and noticed in this Journal for 
that year (p. 350)—searcely justifies this estimate ; the Chronicle 
mentions another on “ The Ide ntification of British Moses” whic 
we have not met with, but which can hardly be of serious import- 
ance, as it is neither in the library of the Natural History Museum 
nor in that of Kew. Nor do we find Mrs a game S name in 
the Royal Society’ 8 Catalogue of Scientific Papers 
Tue Journal of the Keo Guild for 1902, besides a large amount 
of correspondence from ‘‘ Old me contains a portrait and bio- 
graphy of our contributor Mr. J. R. Jackson, for sts ra years 
Curator = the museums conneeted with ae Gardens. 
