64 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO. 
portion of the monograph, There are many new ae and the 
monograph is illustrated by four beautifully executed plate 
Tue fourth number of the Papers and Proceedings of ime Hamp- 
shire Field Club contains a list of the rarer plants of the Test 
Valley, by Mr. E. esrienese and a note on Hampshire Mosses, by 
the Rev. *. D. Heatheo 
A s being arte for the purpose of erecting a suitable 
memorial of ‘the late John Ralfs in Penzance Cemetery. Mr. W. 
Bolitho, jun., shake will receive subscriptions. 
oB. and Mr. W. H. Pearson have issued their 
fourth and lek iteels of Hepatice Britannica Exsiccate, containing 
seventy-five specimens (Nos. 216-290). Of these, sixty-two are 
st in duplicate, and two in triplicate: in one of the latter 
s—Cephalozia Lammersiana—we have three specimens, whic 
illustrate the difference of ger iem in a Sheu yay in a single 
locality. The price is £1 10s.; to subscribers, £1 1 
Mr. Baitten has alee from the editorship of Nature Notes, 
which is now under the sole control of the Rev. Percy W. Myles. 
Dr. Tuomas eee has been appointed Curator of the Columbia 
—— Herbariu 
HE Herbarium “of the British Museum has received a valuable 
saaition of 356 specimens i ow te Hepaties, collected by Prof. 
Macoun, and named by Mr. W. H. Pearson. They -Teprosent 
upwards of 150 5 species, and a1 are the types examined by 
‘ an 
minima Aust.: the two latter are MS. names of - late C. F. 
Austin, of whose herbarium Mr. Donniti is the poss 3 
e to thank our Indian correspondent, Mr, C. W. Hope, 
for a copy of the elaborate Catalogue of Ferns in the Herbarium of the 
Government of India at resto dp It consists of 104 oblong folio 
pages, the collector, date, and locality of each specimen in the 
Herbarium being recorded. The eesti was undertaken by 
Mr. E. W. Trotter, and the determination of the specimens by Mr. 
C. W. Hope, who hopes ere long to compile an annotated list which 
will contain some original work. 
We learn with great regret that our valued contributor, Mr. 
T. R. Archer Briggs, succumbed on the 28rd ult. to an attack of 
inflammation of the lungs, produced by the severe cold. We hope 
to publish an account of | Mr. Briggs’s life and works, from the pen 
of his friend, the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers, in an early number. 
Reviews of Miss Woolward’s Masdevallia, Dr. Richter’s Enume- 
ratio Plante seta Prof. Baillon’s Herborisations Parisiennes, and 
er books as mg! ahs ee communications, are un- 
siece | held aa “ae want of 
