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are glad to learn that a new (the third) edition of The Students'’ 
1L andbooh of British Alosses will be issued about the end of the 
year. 
The First Annual Meeting and excursion of the British Bryolo- 
gical Society took place at Buxton on August 3-10. A tour round 
the district by motor was arranged on two days, the members ex¬ 
ploring the more distant botanical grounds en route. Dove Dale was 
visited in brilliant sunshine and yielded such interesting mosses as 
Amblystegium compactum, Eurhynchium Teesdalei , Trichostomum 
nitidum , T. mutabile var. cophocarpum , and a puzzling form of 
a Barbula which proved to he B. convoluta var. sardoa B. & S. 
At Chee Dale the rare Pedinophyllum interruption was met with, 
while in the Via Gellia were found [Veisia calcarea , Seligeria pusilla, 
Aletzgeria pubescens, Cololejeunea calcarea, Scapania aspera , and 
an undeveloped form resembling S. curta growing on limestone rocks 
(an unusual habitat for this hepatic), in addition to other rare species 
of both mosses and hepatics. Near Castleton, Cololejeunea liosset- 
tiana grew in extensive patches. Swartzia inclinata occurred near 
the limestone quarry at Burbage, accompanied by Aneura major and 
Aloerckia Elotoiciana. The evenings were spent in discussing various 
subjects connected with bryology and in examining specimens found 
during the day. A paper on the Classification and Nomenclature of 
Mosses was read by the President, Mr. H. N. Dixon, and one on 
Competition among Plants, mainly Mosses and Hepatics, by the 
General Secretary, Mr. D. A. Jones, both being followed by a general 
discussion, and there was an exhibition of local mosses and hepatics,. 
arranged by Mr. W. Bellerby of York. Mr. Symers M. Macvicar 
was elected Vice-President for the next two years. The Annual 
Meeting will be held at Llanberis on Aug. 29-Sept. 5, 1924. 
The Gilbert White Fellowship has issued in a nicely-printed 
pamphlet the Presidential Address delivered by Sir David Prain at 
the last Annual General Meeting on “ Gilbert White as a Botanist,” 
which contains an admirable appreciation of White’s attitude towards- 
natural science in general and to botany in particular. The list of 
the “more rare” plants given in White’s letter (xli.) to Dailies- 
Barrington is duly referred to, and Sir David rightly speaks of this- 
as “the only list of Selborne plants to be found in the famous 
‘parochial history.’” But it is to be regretted that no reference is- 
made to the paper in this Journal for 1893 (pp. 289-294) in which it 
is noted that Bell in his edition of Selborne (ii. 369: 1877) men¬ 
tioned a catalogue of Selborne plants in White’s handwriting which 
was in his possession, and which he embodied in the list which lie 
gave. In the Journal is also printed a list of 439 species taken from 
White’s copy of Hudson’s Flora Anglica , in which the Selborne 
plants were marked by White, a note in his hand stating that all had 
been found within the parish. For the history of the volume, which, 
was then in the possession of the Late Canon Gordon, the Journal 
must be consulted ; but the list of species is an important addition to 
our knowledge of “ Gilbert White as a botanist.” 
