28*2 
REVIEW. 
Dec.. 1889. 
Librarian, Mr. E. W. B. Nicholson, M.A., kindly giving a 
short history of the Library, and the Camera was also open 
throughout the afternoon. The Clarendon Press was visited 
by a party, and the processes of electrotyping were illustrated. 
The Radcliffe Observer, Mr. E. J. Stone. M.A., F.R.S., kindly 
consented to show the instruments, &c., at the Radcliffe 
Observatory, to one party at three p.m., and another at 
four p.m. The Radcliffe Observer and Mrs. Stone very kindly 
invited both parties to tea at four p.m. A small party visited 
Dr. J. A. H. Murray’s Scriptorium, in which the great 
dictionary is being prepared. To some extent these afternoon 
parties were interfered with by the weather, but the aggregate 
attendance at them was larger than might have been expected, 
and no doubt satisfied the various hosts that the courtesv 
they were showing to their visitors by no means fell upon 
thankless soil. 
We cannot conclude this brief report without congratu¬ 
lating the Union upon a most brilliant and successful 
meeting, and giving hearty expression to the indebtedness of 
the members, in the first instance, to Mr. Poulton, President, 
and Mr. H. M. J. Underhill, Secretary, of the Oxford 
Society, to whose constant and thoughtful care so much of 
the success was due ; and after them to the various members 
of the Reception Committee, and to those who, in more 
private way, added by their hospitality to the comfort and 
pleasure of the visiting members. 
ILHcfo. 
A Contribution to the Flora of Derbyshire. By the Rev. W. H. Painter. 
8vo, pp. 156. Map. London : G. Bell and Sons. Price 7s. 6d. 
The preface of this new Flora is short, and gives little explanation of 
the work itself or the reasons which induced the author to publish it 
in its present form. The introduction contains only a meagre reference 
to the geology of the district and a sparse description of the topographical 
divisions and of the river systems of Derbyshire. In the recent Flora 
of South-West Yorkshire, by Mr. F. Arnold Lees, these portions have 
been so completely treated as to render it difficult indeed to follow 
him, while it raises the standard by which we must judge such books. 
Surely the geology of Derbyshire and its influence on plant distribution 
can scarcely be dismissed in thirty-two lines! The various classes of 
citizenship of plants are then enumerated, the author using them in 
the same sense as in Watson’s Cybele. 
