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plate. Copies may be obtained from the publisher of this Journal 
for 1s. 6d., post-free. The Hand-list of the Algew of the Clyde Sea 
Area has also been reprinted for the Committee for the Exploration 
of the Marine Flora of Western Scotland, and may be obtained 
from Mr. George Murray, Natural History Museum. 
Tue recently issued number of the Proceedings of the Linnean 
Society contains, among other matter, the Presidential Addresses 
delivered by Mr. Carruthers in 1889 and 1890. The first is 
devoted to a careful and exhaustive history of the various existing 
portraits of Linnzus, and is followed by a catalogue of the large 
and valuable collection of portraits of Fellows and others, belonging 
because they would serve in some measure as antidotes to the 
licence of imagination emancipated from the trammels of fact which 
is now so largely accepted as ‘seience.” 
each species. The absence of this leaves us in doubt, for example, 
whether Abutilon Nealleyi Coulter is here first published, especially 
as the indication “n.sp.” does not follow the description of 
Thelypodium Vaseyi, which is certainly new. The Manual is certain 
to be useful: and we cannot commend too highly the practice of the 
Department in adding an index to each part of their Contributions, 
*e.g., the Address to the Biological Section of the British Association in 
1886 (see Journ. Bot. 1886, 309), 
