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48 BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETC. to the archaic arrangement of Jussieu and DeCandolle," and who are hkely to jump when they find RanunculacecB sandwiched between Aristolochiacea and CeratophyllacecB. Mr. Williams proposes the term phylum for each of the three primary divisions of flowering plants — the GymnospermecB (ConifercB) Sbnd AnthospermcB {" Dendroph- thoacea " — i. e. Loranthacem) forming two of these, while everything else goes into " Phylum I. Angiospermse." " This brief tabular statement is issued to those who may be interested in classification, in the hope that it may elicit some suggestions and criticisms, before venturing to take in hand a rearrangement of British genera which shall be more in accordance with the principles of taxonomy taught by continental botanists": so we have something to look forward to. The list is privately printed, but we have no doubt Mr. Williams (whose address is 181, High Street, Brentford) will forward copies to such of *' those who may be interested" as have not already received it. The recently issued part (vol. ii. part 3, 1894-5) of the Trans- actions of the Perthshire Society of Natural Science contains botanical notes by Prof. Trail, and a memoir, with full-length portrait, of Dr. F. Buchanan White. The Supplement to Mr. Jackson's Index Kewensis, which the compiler of that work and M. Durand have in hand, and which will bring the book up to the end of 1895, is making rapid progress. Mr. Jackson's part of the work is completed up to the beginning of December, and includes some 32,000 names. We much regret to announce the death of Lord De Tabley, better known to botanists as John Leicester Warren, which took place in the Isle of Wight on Nov. 22nd. A further notice will appear in an early issue of this Journal. The death is also an- nounced of Prof. George Lawson, who died at Halifax, Nova Scotia, on Nov. 10th. John Bracebridge Wilson, who died at Geelong on Oct. 22nd, was born in 1828 at Topcroft, Norfolk, of which place his father was rector. He was educated at St. John's College, Cambridge, and on going to Australia became vice-principal of the Geelong Grammar School, of which the present Dean of Melbourne (Dr. Vance) was then head-master. In 1863 he succeeded to the head-mastership, and continued to hold that office until his death. Mr. Bracebridge Wilson, in addition to his services to marine zoology, was a student of marine botany. He collected seaweeds with great zeal and assiduity, and was very successful in discovering new forms : Prof. J. G. Agardh has described most of these. Through his friend Baron von Mueller, Mr. Bracebridge Wilson was able to help many botanists with specially collected material for research on particular points. He was an admirable collector in every respect, and was careful not only of the condition of his specimens, but of their proper display on the mount. Australian Phycology has lost a devoted student in John Bracebridge Wilson.