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THE REV. \V. R. LINTON. 



\Ve regret to notice the death on January 4th last, of the Rev. 

 William Richardson Linton, at the age of fifty-seven. Mr. 

 Linton was well known as one of the leading critical authoritiee 

 on British Phanerogams, and especially as an expert upon ths 

 puzzling genera Rubus, Hieracium and Salix, as to which he 

 may be said to have had a European reputation. From the 

 date of his settHng in Derbyshire in 1887. upon his acceptance 

 of the living of Shirley, he devoted himself to the study of the 

 flora of the county, and the results of fifteen years of assiduous 

 work appeared in the ' Flora of Derbyshire,' published in 1903, 

 an account of the Flowering Plants, Higher Crvptogams. 

 Mosses, Hepatics, and Characeae of the county. He was also 

 responsible for the article on ' Botany ' in the ' Victoria 

 History of Derbyshire.' He was also the author of a ' Manual 

 of British Hieracia,' and of numerous contributions to the 

 ' Journal of Botany.' With his brother, the Rev. E. F. Linton, 

 he issued a most useful series of FascicuU of British Hieracia, 

 and we beheve the Hst of that genus in the forthcoming edition 

 of the ' London Catalogue ' is from his pen. He described and 

 named Ruhiis durescens, a very distinct bramble belonging to 

 the Rhamnifolii section, a representation of which adorns the 

 cover of the ' Flora of Derbyshire,' also Hieracium holophyUiim, 

 a local hawkweed characteristic of the Derbyshire limestone 

 hills, and a form of Epipactis, to which he gave the name of 

 E. atrovirens. The deceased gentleman was ever ready to put 

 his great stores of botanical knowledge at the service of his fellow 

 botanists, and will be missed by a large circle of friends and 

 correspondents. T. G. 







The Sea=shore shown to the Children, by Janet Harvey Kelman, 



described by Rev. Theodore Wood. Edinburgh : T. C. and E. C. Jack. 

 146 pp., 2/6 net. 



This is the fourth of this admirable series, and will unquestionably do 

 much to interest children in the objects likely to be met with on the 

 shore. No better present could be made to a child about to visit the coast 

 than this well-illustrated and charmingly written book. There are no 

 fewer than forty-eight coloured plates, upon which fishes, shells, crus- 

 taceons, sea-weeds, etc., are admirably depicted. Most of the drawings 

 are all that can be desired ; one or two are weak, the ' Sea-urchin without 

 spines ' (plate 38) being perhaps the worst. Anyone who does not con- 

 sider this a cheap book should be made to repeat its title, quickly, six times ! 



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