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limited to British phanerogams pe ferns; ‘‘a B liection of mosses 
has been commenced, and one of sea-weeds is in contemplation,” 
but ‘the inet cannot at kates attempt the Mahon: or the 
ming A of well-authenticated species of the ult 
genus Rosa, wind “the yet more hopeless Rubus, not to mention 
several Grass sses, will be found.” The collection numbers 1150 
pecies. Its value lies in its use. If it never comes out of 
its se it ae just as well not be in it.” 
Pror. Sac ends us an seater § pee nda wr purport 
of which is sufficiently explained by —** Chromotaxia, seu 
Nomenclator Colorum polyglottus caine eddies woiobaie ad 
rum et zoologorum.” The Supplementum to his 
Sylloge Fungorum is announced to appear during the present year. 
Mr. A. 8. Hrrcncock’s Catalogue of the Anthophyta and Pterido- 
phyta of , lowa, issued by the Shaw School of Botany on 
“ Februry 4, 1891 ” (we trust this is not a new transatlantic develop- 
ment!), is tS to Europeans chiefly from a nomenclature 
point of view. . Hitchcock is an adherent of the new school, 
though hardly a consistent one. For instance, = sehen “Tf 
Nymphea tuberosa Paine and N, reniformis are the sam ou 
plant becomes Castalia reniformis (DC.).” Why ? Syetitaons reni- 
jformis was published, not by DeCandolle, but by Walter in th 
aden, which Mr. Hitchcock constantly cites. Why, 
then, should - st tand as the authority for name ? e note 
into “Britt.” It may perhaps be presumptuous to suggest that 
there is any danger of confusing this rising American botanist with 
the Editor of this Journal; but the latter certainly has equal right 
to the abbreviation, especially as his species in the Flora of Tropical 
Africa considerably antedate the more numerous contributions of 
his almost-namesake. In cases like this, the possibility of confusion 
is best avoided by printing the name in full, especially as the 
saving in space by the abbreviation is very trifling. 
Pror. Martens has done well to translate into a more generally 
known language the memoir of Cardinal Haynald which was issued 
in Hungarian by Prof. Kanitz in 1889, on the occasion of his 
econ s sacerdotal cra The memoir, to which is prefixed 
very charming portrait in photogravure, deals entirely with the 
Cardinal in his connection with iS aa ae study which he ete 
Heufler, K otschy, H. G. Schot' : and Sodiro. This French trans- 
lation is beautifully printed ; ‘| is published at Ghent, by A. Siffer. 
We note with Lamy: that the University of Aberdeen has 
conferred the degree of LL.D. on Professor Daniel Oliver, and by 
so doing has honoured itself as well as the recipient of the title. 
