818 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
misunderstood the point at issue—that he has examined cases of 
diseased tissue due to external or secondary infection, while the 
corpuscles spéciaux are only present in connection with primary 
pustules. It might be easily possible to settle the question of these 
corpuscles if Eriksson were to make serial sections through similar 
tissue to that in which he has already found them, and so determine 
their absolute isolation. Marshall Ward might also apply his exact 
their opinions on the mycoplasma hypothesis, but the question cannot 
be considered as settled until further work is done, 
A, ti. 8: 
BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, éc. 
Tue first instalment of the Catalogue of the Library of the 
British Museum (Natural History) has been issued by the ‘Trustees. 
It is a handsome quarto volume of five hundred pages, and includes 
the letters A~D, containing about 15,000 entries. It has been com- 
piled by Mr. B. B. Woodward, the assistant in charge of the General 
Library, and edited by him with the assistance of representatives 
from the several departments—from that of Botany, Mr. Britten. 
Tae Rev. Henry Epwarp Fowner Garnsry, Senior Fellow of 
Magdalen College, Oxford, who died at Bath at the end of June, 
and was buried in the Abbey Cemetery on July 8, was born in 1826 
at Coleford, Gloucestershire. He was educated at Worcester and 
Magdalen Colleges, and took his degree in 1846; in 1854 he was 
ordained, and proceeded B.D. in 1858. Mr. Garnse was in- 
terested in botany, especially in bryology; but his name is chiefly 
miliar in connection with the translations of Goebel’s Outlines, 
Count Solms’s Fossil Botany, Sachs’s History of Botany, and other 
German works, His help in revising the MS. and examining the 
proofs of Mr. Druce’s Flora of Berkshire is acknowledged in the 
preface to that work, 
_ Mr. Carrurners, at the special request of the Committee of 
New College, Edinburgh, has undertaken to fill next winter the 
Chair of Natural Science at that coll 
Mr. Carleton Rea, the Hon. Sec. of the Society, will read a note on 
the occurrence of a Phalloid new to Britain. On the following 
evening the Rev. W. L. W. Eyre will deliver his Prosidental Address, 
entitled ‘ Mycology as an Instrument of Recreation.’ at 
= The Réle of Digrusi ic Pressure in Plants, by Burton 
forms one of the latest of the decennial publi- 
