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E Hon. Mrs. Evelyn Cecil, whose History of English Gardens 
an important se agpaai to our knowledge of historical 
at a has written a very pretty pes useful little book 
on Children’s Gardens, waa h Messrs. Macmillan publish. It 
contains a great deal of information, botanical as well as agri- 
cultural, conveyed in a pleasant manner, and is well suited 
to give young folks an intelligent interest in one 0 0s 
delightful of pursuits. The volume is well illustrated and 
beautifully printed. 
Tue death of Wiu1am Artaur Guasson (who was born at 
Hayle, 29 Moy. 1828), which took place on Jan. 14 at Lescudjack, 
near Penza has deprived West Cornwall of one of its most 
ardent Rou ‘ean sts. His help is deomedans in Mr. Davey’s 
Tentative List of Cornwall plants ; ; a paper from his pen ‘‘ On the 
Occurrence of Foreign Plants in West Cornwall”’ will be found in 
the een of the Dehsines Natural History Society for 
1888-89, pp. 62-69. oe the later years of his life Glasson 
took te the study of moss 
m: Upiversy ae ot Wales Scientific Society has pub- 
lished a ‘** List of the Flowering Plants and Ferns of Aberystwyth 
and Neighboushood. (Gilson, Aberystnyth by Prof. J. H. Salter, 
D.Sc., which ‘‘ contains the names of all the species which have 
been hee upon reliable authority - North Cardiganshire.”’ It 
contains little else, although there are a few localities, but the 
‘‘names’’ include both pees and book- "En nglish. No authorities are 
ill A to the Latin names, and, with hardly an exception, the 
vials begin with a juisel letter, About 700 species are enume- 
oy, but “ the flora », though not without features of interest, is by 
no means a rich one 
Mr. R. W. Gounpine sends us an interesting paper on ‘‘ Martin 
Lister, M.D., F.L.S.,”’ reprinted from the Report for 1900 of the 
Architectural and Archeological Society si mere and Notting- 
ham. It contains a large number of lette and from Lister, 
eet from MSS. in the Bodleian ; peveri ‘his corresponden 
re Dr. Plot, Edward Lhuyd, and Sir Hans Sloane. There is 
nothing especially relating to botany of interest in the collection, 
hich lawever is interesting in many ways. 
Tare extremely useful Flore descriptive et illustrée de la France 
(Klincksieck, Paris), by the A Abbé Coste, has reached the third part 
of its second volume, and brings the enumeration down to Achiliea. 
Each description is accompanied by a small but characteristic 
figure, which should be of great help in peat the species 
When completed, this will take rank among the por useful of 
European floras. 
A onam of Botany, to be called the “‘ Harry Bolus’’ Chair, has 
been established at the Cape Town University. Its first occupant 
will be Mr. H. H. W. Pearson of Kew. Mr. 8. T. Dunn is suc- 
ceeding Mr. Ford at the Hong aie tanic Gardens. 
