340 ANNUAL RECORD OF SCIENCE AND INDUSTRY. 



about one thousand specimens collected in Yucatan by Dr. 

 Arthur Schott, of Washington. 



VISITORS TO KEW GARDENS IN 1871. 



Dr. Hooker, in his report upon the Royal Gardens at Kew 

 for the year 1871, remarks that while the actual number of 

 visitors has been absolutely less than the two preceding 

 years, the number of desirable visitors has been greatly in- 

 creased. More than two thirds of the total number on the 

 other days of the week visit the gardens on Sunday Mon- 

 day, the " artisans' day," showing a considerably larger num- 

 ber than any other week-day. The almost perfectly orderly 

 conduct on this day contrasts very favorably with that dis- 

 played by some of the fashionable Saturday visitors. The 

 usual facilities for students have been granted in the way of 

 examination of living plants and the herbarium, and exten- 

 sive interchanges of living plants and seeds have been made 

 with similar establishments at home and abroad. Among: 

 other enterprises, a gardener has been sent out to Jamaica to 

 re-establish the botanic garden there, which had been carried 

 on for so long a time, but which of late had been allowed to 

 fall into neglect. 12 A,May 12, 1872, 52. 



HOOKER'S " FLORA OF BRITISH INDIA." 



A valuable contribution to the literature of botany has 

 just appeared in the form of the first installment of the 

 " Flora of British India," by Dr. Hooker. This includes all 

 the British territories in India (including the Malay Penin- 

 sula and the Andaman Islands), with Cashmere and Western 

 Thibet, but excluding Afghanistan and Beloochistan as be- 

 longing to a different region that of Western Asia. The 

 total number of species of flowering plants to be included in 

 this work is from twelve to fourteen thousand ; and in giving 

 a systematic account of this immense flora in a compact form, 

 Dr. Hooker has earned the gratitude of all who have occasion 

 to investigate the species of that region. 12^4, May 12, 

 1872,52. 



SUPPLY OF COLOMBIAN GUACO. 



The Panama papers report an increasing demand for the 

 Colombian guaco (llikania guaco), and urge the govern- 



