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THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
In the latest instalment (lxviii.) of the Contributions from the 
Gray Herbarium , Dr. 13. L. Robinson continues his “ Records ” of 
jE 'upatoriacece ; Mr. I. M. Johnston prints “ Studies in the JBorayi- 
nacece, in the course of which he restores Opiz’s genus Ilackelia and 
monographs Plagiobothrys and Ant iphy turn. From the same writer 
we have descriptions of new Spermatophytes, mostly Puphorbiacece, 
including a new genus of Phyllanthece , Halliophytuin ; a synopsis 
of Hymenopappus ; and a new genus of Composite ( Premonanus ) 
allied, to Dimeresia. 
Botany is usually somewhat sparingly represented in Science 
Progress , and the October issue forms no exception to the rule : 
Dr. Salisbury, however, gives a summary, somewhat belated, of 
papers that have appeared in various periodicals between November, 
1922, and April of the present year. 
We learn from the Annual Report for 1922 of the Field Museum of 
Chicago that the Department of Botany has received the large private 
herbarium, consisting of about 35,000 sheets mostly of European 
plants, of the late Edouard Jeanpert, formerly an assistant in Cosson’s 
herbarium. The Report also contains an account of the expedition 
to British Guiana, for the purpose of securing botanical exhibition 
material and studies for the plant reproductions in the Department. 
Dr. Georg Bitter publishes in Fedde’s Pepertorium a con¬ 
tinuation of the papers on Solemn africana contributed by him to 
Engler’s Jahrbuch. To the great inconvenience of all who use the 
work, the headings of the pages are left entirely blank. 
The Transactions of the Devonshire Association (liv. 291-342) 
contains a long and interesting paper by Messrs. Miller Christy and 
R. Hansford Worth, with numerous illustrations from photographs, 
on “ The Ancient Dwarfed Oak Woods of Dartmoor.” 
The Journal of the Kew Guild for 1923 gives a biography and 
portrait of Mr. Ernest Henry Wilson, who by his collection in China 
has added so greatly to our botanical knowledge and to the treasures 
of our gardens. 
The friends of the late Sir I. B. Balfour are anxious to perpetuate 
his memory by some tangible memorial, and it is proposed that this 
should take the form of a rest-house for the use of visitors to the site 
in Glenbranter Forest, Argyllshire, which was set aside by the Office 
of Works and the Forestry Commission for the cultivation of plants 
raised in the Edinburgh Botanic Gardens. 
A reception, at which the Swedish Minister was present, was 
held on October 18 at the rooms of the Linnean Society as an informal 
opening of the Session just begun. The notice announcing the event 
intimated that “evening dress ” was indispensable in those attend¬ 
ing ; this we venture to think was a mistake, and in this opinion we 
are not alone. 
