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An ardent bryologist and hepaticologist, he made an exhaustive study 
of the mosses and hepatics of Upper Teesdale and of the York district; 
the latter, with the freshwater algse and fungi, appeared in his 
Handbook prepared for the meeting of the British Association at 
York in 1906. In 1903 In gham became Secretary of the Moss 
Exchange Club—a post which he resigned on account of failing 
health in 1922 ; in connexion with this he edited the Census Cata¬ 
logue of British 3fosses (1907) and that of British Hepatics (1913). 
Although chiefly occupied with cryptogams, he was also interested in 
flowering plants; a note in this Journal (1907, 413) on Sagina 
Beuteri was followed (1908, 109) by the description and figure 
of a new variety (var. glabra) written in conjunction with Mr. J. 
A. Wheldon. He also contributed to our pages (1909, 178) a list of 
the Bryophytes of Somersetshire, and published numerous papers 
in other journals. 
The Journal of Genetics for August contains the paper on the 
Genetics of Primula sinensis on which the late 11. P. Gregory was 
occupied at the time of his death. The experiments on the plant 
which had engaged his attention since 1903 were partly published in 
1911; the experiments for the present paper were undertaken by 
numerous workers; the paper itself also embodies the researches of 
Prof. Bateson and Miss de Winton, but “ so much of the work owes 
its inception to Gregory that his name most properly stands at the 
head of the present publication.” The paper is illustrated by eight 
plates of the high standard which characterises those of the Journal. 
With regard to the history of the plant, reference may be made to 
the note in this Journal for June last (p. 171); “the leaves on 
Lindley’s plate, said to have been drawn by W. J. Hooker” (Journ. 
Gen. 241, n.) were executed by William Hooker the artist (1779- 
1832). In the same number M. B. Crane and A. E. Gairdner have 
a paper on species-crosses in Cochlearia with an account of their 
cytology—the original plants of C. officinalis and C. danica used in 
the experiments were collected at St. David’s, Wales, and Hayling 
Island, Hants, respectively. The paper is illustrated by four plates. 
The work upon Linmeus, on which Dr. Dajnlon Jackson has been 
for some years engaged, has appeared in a handsome volume published 
by Messrs. Witherby at 25s. n.; its full title runs : “ Linnaeus : the 
Story of his Life, adapted from the Swedish of Theodor Magnus 
Fries, Emeritus Professor of Botany in the University of Uppsala, and 
brought down to the present time in the light of recent research.” 
We hope to notice it at length in our next issue. We have also 
received the handsome Handbook of Coniferce (Arnold, 42s. n.) by 
Messrs. W. Dallimore and A. B. Jackson, a notice of which is also 
deferred. 
The Journal of the Indian Botanical Society (September) 
includes a paper on the Smut of Cynodon Dactylon , by K. C. Mehta; 
a preliminary note on Epiph} r tical Succession in a Himalayan forest 
of Quercus incana y by Mr. Dudgeon ; notes on a bulbiferous Coco¬ 
nut from Malabar, hy M. O. P. Iyengar, and on a peculiar bulb of 
Allium sativum , by P. M. Debbannan. 
