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method of the work was there described. The present volume, 

 which completes the book, is on similar lines to those adopted in 

 vols. i. and ii. It deals with the gamopetalous dicotyledons, and 

 in addition to its own index of generic names includes a general 

 index of the names of families, genera, and species, with their 

 synonyms and native names. There is also a long list of correc- 

 tions and addenda for the three volumes. The six plates illustrate 

 aspects of vegetation. The four maps are a useful feature. One 

 is a general map of Java, indicating the localities mentioned in 

 the text. The second reproduces Junghuhn's division of the 

 island into four altitudinal regions, while the third illustrates the 

 horizontal distribution of the chief types of vegetation. • The 

 last indicates the position of the various, forest reserves which 

 Dr. Koorders has explored botanicaliy and charted for future 

 reference. 



We congratulate the author on the completion of a much 

 needed working handbook to the flora of an interesting botanical 



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BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, dx. 



William Weekes Fowler, the oldest of Lincolnshire botanists, 

 died on March 7 at Winterton in that county, where he was born 

 on Feb. 27, 1835. He was a scholar of Christ's College, Cam- 

 bridge, taking his M.A. degree in 1860 ; he w^as for forty-seven 

 years Vicar of Liversedge, Yorkshire, and since 1906 Honorary 

 Canon of Wakefield. He was interested in a wide range of 

 subjects, including botany, especially that of his native county, 

 wdiich he thoroughly investigated. So far as I know, he was the 

 first British student of environment, as to which I have notes 

 from him dating back to 1852. His notes on Lincolnshire plants 

 appeared in the Phytologist (1857) and in the Naturalist (1878- 

 1890), and he contrilDuted to the second edition of Topographical 

 Botany (1883). His most remarkable achievement w'as the dis- 

 covery, in 1880, of Selinum Carvifolia in Lincolnshire, which 

 he was the first to add to the British Flora ; an account of 

 the occurrence w4th a plate from specimens supplied by him will 

 be found in this Journal for 1882 (p. 129, t. 229). When the 

 Yorkshire Naturalists' Union was formed in 1886 he w^as elected 

 its president. His genial qualities and wide sympathies endeared 

 him to a large circle of friends. — A. W. W.-P. 



Messrs. Milner & Co. of Halifax send us a little shilling (net) 

 volume on Botany, by Mr. Boulger, which forms one of their 

 " XXth Century Science Series." These " chapters on the study 

 of plants" are simple and elementary but, as might be anticipated, 

 accurate, and sometimes — as in that on " The Beginnings of 

 Botany" — supply information not generally met with in books 

 of the kind. A useful glossary and a brief bibliography are other 

 satisfactory features : the illustrations, however, leave a good 

 deal to be desired. 



