In Memoriam : Joseph Anthony Martin dale. 
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the Westmorland Natural History Record, showing in colour 
the six river basins, Leven and Duddon, Kent, Lune, Eamont, 
Eden, and Tees. Taking this as a basis he found records of 
1,023 plants growing in Westmorland and Lake-Lancashire, 
out of the total number of 1,858 enumerated in the Eighth 
Edition of the London Catalogue. Trenchant in his elimination 
of aliens and garden escapes, he reduced the number to 897, 
which seem to be the components of the permanent vegetation 
of the vice-county. 
In addition to these there were enumerated 360 mosses, 118 
hepatics, 500 lichens and 138 fungi, besides algae, diatoms, and 
desmids. His great work in plant systematization included the 
collating from bibliographical research all the recorded plants 
of the pre-Linnean period, 1597-1744, entailing a vast amount 
of scholarly research in the iiterature of the subject ; these 
plants he enumerated at 253. He had an extensive corres- 
pondence with botanists at home and abroad. His own her- 
barium included about 2,000 flowering plants and 1,000 
cryptogams. 
As may be supposed, he was associated with the various 
Westmorland and Lakeland Societies, from the 1868 Kendal 
Society of which the famous blind Gough was first President, 
down to the revival in 1912 of the latest Natural History 
Society. In that year he was elected President, and on his 
retirement in 1913 he devoted his address to a closely-reasoned 
lecture on Protoplasm, a learned criticism of Professor 
Schafer’s famous address to the British Association. 
He was commissioned to write the botanical section for the 
Victoria County History of Westmorland, a work which so 
far, unfortunately, has not appeared. 
His death was not unexpected, for he had been failing in 
health for the previous few months, although he had been 
making mental plans for the summer of this year. He was 
actually confined to his bed for a month, till the end came on 
the 3rd of April, in his 77th year. — R. 
Desert and Water Gardens of the Red Sea. by Cyril Crossland. Cam- 
bridge University Press, 158 pp., price 10/6 net. Not only has Mr. Crossland 
succeeded in producing a remarkably readable book dealing with the 
natural history of a very important but usually neglected area, but he 
has also given a very interesting account of the natives, and the shore 
formations of the coast. After dealing with the coast and the human 
inhabitants, their religion, daily life and the life of the women, he has 
some interesting remarks on the Sailors, Fishermen, and Pearl Divers of 
the Red Sea. The second portion of the work, however, will probably 
more particularly appeal to our readers, as it gives a very exhaustive 
and well illustrated account of the Corals and Reefs, as well as of the geo- 
logy of the Red Sea area, and a history of the sea itself. We must con- 
gratulate Mr. Crossland, who is the marine biologist of the Sudan Govern- 
ment, for the very healthy account he gives of the district. 
1914 May 1. 
