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gigantic brown algae of the Pacific Coast were also shown for 

 comparison. The lecture was discussed by Miss A. L. Smith, 

 Mr. J. C. Shenstone, Prof. F. E. Fritsch, Mr. A. D. Cotton, and 

 the President, the lecturer replying to various questions. 



At the meeting of the Linnean Society on Feb. 1, Dr. B. D. Jack- 

 son communicated some additional information concerning Linne's 

 Lapland Drum. The information printed in the Proceedings for 

 last year (pp. 60-61) represented the ascertained facts up to the 

 Bicentenary of Linne in May, 1907. But enquiry was afterwards 

 made as to what had become of the Linnean drum, and it resulted 

 in the discovery of its history as follows : — The drum formed part 

 of a large collection of curiosities which was bought by the IJni- 

 verity of Upsala in 1832, on the death of Thunberg's pupil and 

 botanical demonstator, C. P. Forsberg. In 1874 the University 

 presented it, not knowing its interesting history, to the Eoyal 

 Academy of Science, Stockholm, whence, in 1883, it passed to the 

 Trocadero Museum, in Paris, in exchange for some Peruvian 

 curiosities. It now seems certain that Linne received the magic 

 drum from Pite or Lule Lappmark, as it agrees with the design of 

 others from those parts, and differs from the form of those from 

 Kimi and Torne Lappmark ; it has certain figures used in the 

 district of Asele. We may expect a detailed account of the drum 

 in question from Dr. Eeuterskiold, who is occupied in an exhaus- 

 tive review of all known specimens. 



The first number of the Scottish Botanical Bevietv, with which 

 we see the Transactions of the Botanical Society of Edinburgh 

 are now united, is nicely printed ; among its contents are the first 

 portion of a paper on " The Geological Relations of Stable and 

 Migratory Plant Formations," by Mr. C. B. Crampton, and articles 

 on " Some Aquatic Forms and Aquatic Species of the British 

 Flora, and on Car ex helvola," by Mr. Arthur Bennett ; on " Some 

 Modern Aspects of Applied Botany," by Mr. A. W. Borthwick ; 

 and on " Ecological Terminology as applied to Marine Algae," by 

 Mr. N. M. Johnson. There are also notes and reviews, among 

 the latter a critical notice of Major Wolley-Dod's List of British 

 Eoses, issued in last year's Journal, which we may safely attri- 

 bute to Mr. W. Barclay, though it is not signed. 



The Journal of the Liniiean Society (Botany, no. 274, con- 

 cluding vol. xxxix., issued Nov. 30) contains a " Supplementary 

 List of Chinese Flowering Plants, 1904-1910," the extent of 

 which shows how greatly our knowledge of the flora of China has 

 extended during that period. We note that the names have not 

 been revised in accordance with the Vienna recommendations : 

 thus on p. 503, at which we opened, we have "Cavalerii" and 

 " Cavaleriei " (the latter being correct); " volkameriaefolia " for 

 " volkameriif olia " ; and, stranger still, " Uraria lacei" and "Vero- 

 nica Maritima." The proofs seem to have not been very carefully 

 read : we note such names as " Tabernaemontana Cum??wngiana " 

 (p. 499) and such citations as "Collet " {ib.). There are occasion- 

 ally (when necessary) new names — e. g. " Symplocos Ernesti Dunn 



