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Mji. T. Sheppard sends us a reprint, from the Report of the 
British Association for 1921, of his useful “ List of Papers bearing 
upon the Zoology, Botany, and Prehistoric Archaeology of the British 
Isles issued during 1921.” This is so well done that one regrets that 
it has not been done better: e.g. there may be some reason for 
classifying the papers under three separate headings, though we 
think one index for the whole would have been more convenient; 
but there can be none for not placing at the head of each page 
an indication of each section, in lieu of the useless entry “ List of 
Papers, 1921.” More than six pages are devoted to that versatile 
author “Anon.,” under whom are placed reports of meetings and 
societies, donations to museums and the like, and such illuminative 
entries as “A Good Record,” “Tragedy of Greed,” “Notes and 
Comments,” and so on. On the other hand, cross references, which 
in some cases are really necessary, are withheld— e. g. wishing to know 
what notices of L. C. Miall had been published, it Avas only by 
hunting through the works of “Anon.” that we were able to discover 
the three references relating to him. 
The botany of popular magazines so often leaves much to be 
desired that the appearance of a quite good figure of Dioncea on the 
cover of The Detective Magazine of Feb. 16 attracted our attention. 
It illustrates a story called “ The Flytrap,” in which the leaves of 
the plant had been made the recipient of stolen rubies, on which they 
had “ closed like a trap.” The accompanying text is hardly up to 
the level of the picture, as we fear that the author regards the plant 
as an orchid, though the description is not inaccurate. The number 
of the same Magazine for March 2 contains (p. 19) a story of 
Sir George Birdwood, which is new to us. When in Bombay, he 
was engaged to investigate the case of a young man who had applied 
for an appointment, and whose letters of introduction had been lost. 
Sir George met him at the Governor’s house at dinner, where the 
“ table decorations of orchids ” elicited Birdwood’s praise. “ You 
should see the Amerstia (sic) nobilis in its native \A r oods, sir! ” 
said the applicant. “ You come from Rangoon, then F ” exclaimed 
Birdwood. The confusion of the young man, Avho had stated that he 
had just come out from England, aroused suspicion, and it was 
discovered that he had absconded from Rangoon with public funds. 
Anilierstia , however, is not an orchid. 
An address delivered by M. Molliard at the funeral of Gaston 
Bonnier, who died on Dec. 30 of last year, is published, with a por¬ 
trait, in the January issue of the JRevue Generate cte Dot unique, which 
journal he established in 1889 and continued to edit until his death. 
In 1887 Bonnier succeeded Duchartre in the chair of Botany in the 
Faculte des Sciences, where he established a botanical laboratory whose 
work he superintended. His most important work is his Fiore com¬ 
plete de France, Suisse, et Belgique (begun in 1912), the sixth 
volume of which, devoted to the Compositce, has recently appeared. 
The feature of the work is the admirable illustrations, reproduced 
(in half the natural size) from coloured photographs, in which 
