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The Oxford Herbarium. — A little pamphlet of twenty pages,? 
prepared by Mr. Druce, the curator of the Fielding herbarium, 
gives some interesting statistics of the important collections of 
Oxford, which commence with a set of 300 specimens collected by 
the Italian, Gregory of Reggio, in 1606, and contain such historic 
herbaria as that of the Bobarts, Morison, Du Bois, Sherard, Shaw, 
and Sibthorp of the last century, and a host of more modern collec- 
tions. While in an introduction to the pamphlet Professor Vines 
states that it cannot be hoped to accumulate at Oxford collections to 
rival those of Kew or of the British Museum, those already brought 
together are seen to number hundreds of thousands of sheets, and 
the aim is stated to be to render the Oxford herbarium as complete 
as possible in plants representing the flora of Europe and the 
adjacent Mediterranean region. 
Botany at Geneva.— To the numerous publications devoted 
wholly or in part to botany which have clustered about the long-time 
home of the De Candolles is now*added another, the Annuaire du 
conservatoire et du jardin botanique de Genève, edited by Dr. John 
Briquet, who also edits the excellent Bulletin du laboratoire de bota- 
nigue générale de l'université de Genève. The new Annuaire, which 
appears as the official organ of the two botanical institutions of the 
city of Geneva, is intended to constitute each year a volume of from 
130 to 250 pages, giving information as to the condition of the gar- 
den, progress made, and the growth and scientific utilization of the 
collections, as well as original articles based wholly or in part on the 
material of the conservatory and garden. 
The first volume,’ which has recently appeared, contains an inter- 
esting report on the garden and the Delessert herbarium for the year 
1896, two seed lists, and the following scientific papers: Crépin, a 
revision of the roses of some old Swiss herbaria; Arvet-Touret, a 
revision of the Hieracia of the herbarium of the younger Haller ; an 
account of new or little-known species of the same genus, chiefly of 
the Delessert herbarium ; and a description and plate of Crepidopsis, 
a new genus of Mexican composites related to Hieracium (based on 
Pringle’s No. 1654, of the year 1888); and Kranzlin, a description 
of two new species of Habenaria, respectively from Java and the 
Philippines. 
Account of the Herbarium = the University of Oxford. Oxford, The 
Clarendon Press, 1897. Price, sixpenc 
2 Annuaire du conservatoire et du jardin botanique de Geneve. te année. 
Genève, Georg et Cie., 1897. 143 pp. I pl. 5 francs. 
