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down to a dozen pages of jejune matter—can imbecility be carried 
further ? ” Sir Henry contrasts this niggardly treatment with the 
“great many thousands spent upon a new-fashioned Museum, not 
meant to illustrate the origin and progress of human art, but for 
perpetuating the cruel memories of a savage war and to preserve 
specimens of ephemeral inventions,” thus constituting “a drain 
upon the resources alone available for the maintenance of the older 
museums.” 
The fourth part of vol. viii. of the Transactions of the British 
Mycological Society (issued May 22) contains papers on “ Parasites 
of Scale-insect Fungi” and “The Genus Claderostigma ” (in which is 
included the description of a new genus, Trichosterigma ) by Mr. T. 
Fetch; Miss Wakefield and Mr. A. A. Pearson give “ Additional 
Records of Surrey Besupinate Hymenomycetes,” including two new 
species of Tulasnella ; Sir H. C. Hawley contributes “ Notes on 
some British Pyrenomycetes ” ; Dr. Jessie Bayliss Elliott and Miss 
O. P. Stansfield give “ Records of Fungi Imperfecti,” in which 
numerous new species are figured and described ; Miss Irene Mounce 
writes on “Fruit-bodies of Coprinus comatus in Laboratory Cultures”; 
Miss Gf. C. Gilchrist describes the “ Bark Canker Disease of Apple 
Trees caused by Myxosporium corticolium ” (3 plates) ; Mr. R. C. 
McLean describes a new species of Sigmoideomyces ( S . divari¬ 
cates ; 1 plate); and Miss Lorrain Smith reviews recent works on 
Lichens. 
The Kew Bulletin (no. 4) contains a revision by J. Burtt Davy 
and J. Hutchinson of the equatorial African genus Brachystegia , of 
which fifty-four species are enumerated, seventeen of them new; 
special attention is paid to the economic value of the genus as a 
result of Mr. Davy’s visits to Rhodesia and the Belgian Congo in 
1919. Mr. L. A. M. Riley continues his “ Contributions to the 
Flora of Sinaloa,” in which new species of Bursera and Bhamnus are 
described ; and there is an interesting note on the original drawings 
for the Botanical Magazine , which are to a large extent preserved 
in the Kew collection of drawings, and have lately been increased by 
a number belonging to the period 1830-34. No. 5 contains a descrip¬ 
tion and figure of Streptolophus , a new genus of grasses from Angola 
allied to Cenchrus , by D. K. Hughes, and a continuation of “ Diagnoses 
Africanse.” 
At the Anniversary Meeting of the Linnean Societ}^ on May 24, 
Dr. Rendle was elected President and Mr. John Ramsbottom Secre¬ 
tary. The Linnean Gold Medal, which had been awarded to Mr. T. 
F. Cheeseman, Curator of the Auckland Museum, for his labours in 
New Zealand biology especially in Botany, who became a Fellow of 
the Society in 1873, was presented to Sir James Allen, High Com¬ 
missioner for New Zealand, who suitably acknowledged the award 
and undertook to transmit the Medal to Mr. Cheeseman. 
The Report for 1922 of the Botanical Society and Exchange 
Club of the British Isles, edited by the Secretarv, Dr. G. C. Druce, 
