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curiosity and interest in many quarters.’’—Erythea, August 1, 
1893. 
‘* Professor E. L.. Greene tells us, in Avythea for August, that 
‘Part I of the /udex Kewensis has just been issued in London.’ 
We in London have not yet heard of the publication of Mr. 
Jackson’s great work, with the progress of which the readers of 
this Journal have been kept tolerably well acquainted.’’—London 
Journal of Botany, September, 1893. 
‘At least as early as the tenth of July, 1893, a prospectus 
was circulated in London announcing as ‘just ready’ Part I of 
the long-expected Index Kewensis. Asa matter of fact it was 
not ready. The prospectus was, however, shortly on its way to 
America, and the August number of EryTHEA announced in 
‘ Notes and News’ the publication of Part I of the work. This 
was contradicted in the London Journal of Botany for September, 
and we were further informed that the readers of that journal 
were kept tolerably well acquainted with the progress of the 
Index. We were left to infer that the Index was not out; was 
not even expected, for the prospectus seems not to have been 
heard of there. Another month passed. The October number 
of the journal reviewed the Index Kewensis, Part I. The pros- 
pectus had finally come to the light of the astute London editor, 
and its premature circulation was set down as a fault of Kew, 
and not due to any creative imagination on the part of the 
editors of ErvTHEA. * * * Furthermore the editor, in his eager- 
ness to locate responsibility for news notes in EryTHEA does not 
guess at all well. He should confine himself to berating the 
Kew people, which is his forte.—W. L. J.’"-—Erythea, November 
3, 1893- 
The second part of the /ndex Kewensis has been passed for 
press and may be expected very shortly. This concludes the 
first of the two volumes and brings the enumeration down to the 
end of J (Justicia). So far the work occupies 1268 pages.— 
Lond. Jour. Bot., November, 1893. 
The editor of the London Journal of Botany in the course of 
a caustic notice of Conway McMillan’s ‘‘ Metasperme’’ makes 
some remarks which do more than justice to the neo-American 
reformers. He says: ‘‘The ‘Botanical Club of the American 
