Obituaries and biographical notes

Alston, A.H.G. 1902-1958 P. Greenfield, British Fern Gazette 8 (1958) 220-221. C.V. Morton, Am. Fern J. 49 (1959) 1-2. Banks, Joseph W.R. Dawson (ed.), The Banks Letters, a calendar of the manuscript correspondence of Sir Joseph Banks preserved in the British Museum, the British Museum (Nat. Hist.), and other collections in Great Britain, pp. xlii + 965, cr. 4to, buckram, 1958.-- Comprises approximately 7.500 entries containing résumés of each letter, and provides the first printed catalogue of these manuscripts.