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Such defects as these, are, however, attributable rather to the 
conditions under which the work was carried out than to any in- 
tentional discrimination on the part of the author. A revision 
can never assume the proportions of an entirely new book; and 
the attempt to remodel every feature of a portrait often destroys 
the likeness. At least until the production of some more com- 
prehensive and more modern volume Dr. Chapman’s flora will be 
indispensable to every student of southern botany. 8 
Tack. 
Catalogue of the Hanbury Herbarmm, in the Museum of the Phar- 
maceutical Society of Great Britain. Pp. 160, Compiled by E. M. 
Holmes, Curator of the Museum. Published by the Society. 
The Daniel Hanbury Herbarium was donated to the Phar- 
maceutical Society of Great Britain by Mr. Thomas Hanbury, 
brother of its deceased owner, on condition that it be kept separate 
from all other collections, and carefully guarded. Thus main- 
tained, it has been of the greatest service, not only to British phar- 
Mmaceutical botanists, but to many foreigners who have visited it, 
Or who have sent specimens for comparison to its learned and 
obliging curator. 
The families represented in the Catalogue are arranged in the 
Benthamian sequence, while the species in each are arranged al- 
phabetically. The specimens under each species are lettered, the 
character of each indicated and the locality and date of collection 
stated. Notes and extracts from letters which accompany the 
Specimens in the herbarium are also printed. Most of these are 
by the collectors, but in many cases they represent critical cor- 
respondence concerning them from specialists. The number of spe- 
cies catalogued is 610, the number of specimens probably three 
times as great. Appendix No. 1 isa list of books quoted in the 
herbarium, No. 2, a list of the herbaria so referred to, and there is 
4 copious index giving the common as well as the botanical 
Names. There is no need of such a catalogue as this in the United 
States, as we have no such collection on any extensive scale. 
HH. &. 
