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Dr M. Hardy has published a 
general account of the vegetation of 
the Highlands of Scotland, accom- 
panied by a map on a smaller scale\ 
An elaborate study, including the 
detailed mapping out, of a salt marsh 
in Brittany is being carried out under 
the direction of Professor F. W. Oliver, 
of the University of London. Several 
annual reports dealing with the pro- 
gress of the work and the methods 
employed have already appeared I 
Mr F. J. Lewis is also engaged^ on 
a study of the succession of deposits 
in the peat of Scotland ; Dr T. W. 
Woodhead is continuing^ his investi- 
^ M. Hardy. Des Highlands D'Ecosse. Paris, 
1905. 
2 Cf. The New Phytologist^ 1904 to 1908. 
3 Lewis, F. J. The Plant Remains of the 
Scottish Peat Mosses. Trans. Roy, Soc. Edin.^ xli. 
part iii., No. 28, 1905 ; xlv. part ii., No. 13, 1906 ; 
xlvi. part i., No. 2, 1907. 
* Woodhead, T. W. Ecology of Woodland 
Plants in the neighbourhood of Huddersfield. 
Linn, Soc, Journ.^ Bot.^ 1906. 
