32 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. 
From the same Department we have received! Nos. 1—8 of 
Caltribisions from the U. 8. National Herbarium. Nos. 1 and 3 are 
devoted to atone of the plants collected by Dr. E. Palmer in 
California and Mexi , 1888-90, by Dr. Vasey and Mr. J. N. Rose; 
Illustrations of West Laseiticti Oaks, from drawings by the late 
Ke 
Albert Kellogg, ihoagh published at San Francisco as long ago as_ 
April, 1889, reached us but recently. The text is supplied by 
Prof. E. L. Greene, who also contributes a short introduction. 
A “sketch of the life and work of Dr. Ke ellogg,” by Mr. G. Davidson, 
which is prefixed to the work, is piper noticeable for its meagre- 
ness ; preg! occupying be tween two and three quarto pages, 
othing i s to the date or eee of Kellogg’s birth or death, 
nor is any acc soni given of his botanical work. A similar mono- 
graph of the Conifere is in preparation 
We learn that the a nh Tr eee Africa, the last volume of 
which appeared in 1877, o be r a as part of the official 
work of the Kew pr pie ise Fo, Ow AS, er has the Loganiacee 
already in hand. We should, however, ave: been still more pleased 
had the long-promised resumption of the Mlora Capensis, of which 
poling has ee since 1865, been rage especially as 
rtain families—e.g. the Serophulari inee by Mr. Hiern—were mono- 
graphed several years au and only need Coca up to date to 
be ready for publication 
Mr. H. C. Harr is eiguiied in the compilation of a Flora of 
4 an 
e Botanical Magazine for December (t. 7149) Sir Joseph 
Hooker onabed Nut as ‘‘a very eminent American botanist 
‘who resided much in England.’’ This is a curious reversal of the 
lapses of great men is to-be foun the Proceedings of the Royal 
Society, where Sir Joseph states that the late Mr. Ball was educated at 
ceva cE is ding 3 its way into Satie oh Jee of the srssias 
ses had reverted to type, and bore suckers of bramble and lar, 
eyed roses” (The Village aR chap. xx). This ‘‘ reversion re 
type’’ took place in the course of a couple of months or so, What 
will Mr Grant Allen say to this ? 
Tue Scientific Committee of the Royal Horticultural Society, 
under the direction of Dr. D. H. Scott, F.L.S., of the Normal School 
of Science, and Dr. Francis Oliver, F, Bs of London University, 
have undertaken to investigate ‘the effects of London n fogs on 
cultivated plants,” and the Royal Society has granted £100 in aid 
of the experiments. 
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