124 ATLAS DEUTSCHER MEERESALGEN, 
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more ample accumulation of ‘facts’ than are here presented to us. 
‘A commercial rather than a scientific arrangement has been 
d 
there is an excellent index, every species referred to is easily 
accessible. The subject is divided into fourteen chapters, dealing 
respectively with India-rubber; Gutta-percha; Food products ; 
Beverages; Drugs; New Drugs ; Oils and Waxes; Gums, Resins, 
nishes; Dyes and Tanning Materials; Paper Materials ; 
Fibres ; Fodders; Timbers and Hard Woods; Miscell Products 
note that two were afterwards withdrawn. Thus « Willughbeia 
. firma 
625). W. Treacheri of the Kew Report is, we imagine, still roaming 
about the world without a godfather and without corporate existence, 
as the spirit of an unbaptised child is supposed to do. : 
The book is well printed; one of the very few misprints occurs 
on the plate facing the titlek— Saccharum officiniarum”: but some 
of the blocks show signs of frequent service elsewhere. 
Atlas Deutscher Meeresalgen. Zweiter Heft. Lieferungen I. & II. 
[tabs. 26 to 835]. Von Dr. J. Remxe. 
The Marine Alge of the Dunbar Coast and of the Orkney Islands, By 
Groree W. Tram, ex Trans. Bot. Soc. Edinb. xviii. 1890, 
Tue second part of Dr. Reinke’s great undertaking has at length 
appeared, and it fully maintains the very high standard set before 
difficulties in respect of this genus are satisfactorily made plain. 
The great interest of the Atlas to British phycologists has already 
) pointed out, and, indeed, it is a necessary book to all who 
mean earnest work at our Marine ; 
Mr. Traill’s two contributions to our own marine flora follow hard 
on others recently noticed in these pages.* His Dun ist is 
particularly interesting, since it fills up the gap between Mr. 
Batters’ list and Mr. Traill’s own excellent Alga of the Firth of 
* Journ, Bot. 1890, 381; 1891, 91. 
