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BOTANICAL NEWS.
dress in silence, or using terms in speaking of the rendering which might
offend tliose with wliom we have every wish to stand we'l.
On the 14th of September, the centenai'y of Humboldt's birthday was cele-
brated in many parts of Germany, thougli it was much to be regretted tliat so
great a name was here and there made the watchword of political and re-
ligious parties. But it could iiardly be expected that all should cordially join
in celebrating the birthday of a man who has oniy just passed away, who
held such advanced views as Humboldt did, and wlio was so fond of indulg-
ing in criticisms. A whole generation should have been born and buried be-
fore any celebration of the kind ought to have been attempted.
Of Von Krempelhuber's ' History and Literature of Lichenology, from the
Oldest Time to the year 1865,' the second and concluding volume has appeared.
It may be ordered from the author (3, Anialien Strasse, Munich ; or througli
Williams and Norgate). The work has been printed at the author's risk and
expense, and is the result of much careful research and labour.
From Vienna we receive an acceptable reprint of Dr. A. Engler's ' Index
Criticus Specierum atque Synonymorum Generis Saxifragse,' which first ap-
peared in the ' Transactions ' of the Zoologico-Botanical Society of that place.
It fills forty-four closely printed pages, and cannot fail to be highly useful to
the working, systematic botanist. Tlie author accepts 167 species of tiie genus,
distributed under 17 sections.
A scrap of botanical news, published in our August number, that " we had
received full and authentic particulars respecting the share which Dr. Hooker
is alleged to have had in preventing certain honorary distinctions being con-
ferred upon some Englishmen who visited the great Horticidtural Exhibition at
St. Petersburg," has, we regret to learn, been misinterpreted. So far from
wishing to imply censure, we held (though tliis may appear a gratuitous remark)
that the illustrious botanist acted in a manner of which all right-minded
men could not help ajjproving.
We have to welcome the appearance of Trimen and Dyer's long-expected
* Flora of Middlesex ' (Hardwicke), and Dyer and Church's edition of S. W.
Jonson's ' How Crops Grow ' (Macmillan)
Dr. Arthur Schott we have to thank for sending us a set of his ' Phytographical
Glimpses of the Tropics of America,' illustrating the vegetation ol Yucatan
and New Granada.
Next year will see the production of an illustrated work on new and rare
British Hymenomycetous Fcingi from the pen of W. Wilson Saunders, F.E.S.,
and Worthington G. Smith, F.L.S. It will consist of descriptions and figures
of some 200-300 species. 100 coloured plates (super-royal in size) are being
drawn on stone by Mr. Smith, partly from original drawings by Mr. Saunders
and partly from his own. Many of the species ai-e xnipublished, and others
new to science. Subscribers may send their names to Mr. Van Voorst. The
book will appear in four parts, each containing five Plates, price 10s. Any
rare species would be thankfully received by Mr. W. G. Smith, 12, North
Grovt> West, Mildmay Park, London, N.
The next number of this Journal w ill contain a double Plate ; no illustration
is issued witli this.
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