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curiosity and interest in manj' quarters." — Erythea, August i, 

 1893. 



" Professor E. L. Greene tells us, in Erythea for August, that 

 * Part I of the Index Kewenus has just been issued in London,' 

 We in lyondon 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. As a 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 YiOnAox^. 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 an^^ creative imagination on the part of the 

 editors of Erythea. * * * 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 Index Keivensis 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. 



Ihe editor of the London Journal of Botany in the course of 

 a caustic notice of Conway McMillan's " Metaspermse " makes 

 some remarks which do more than justice to the neo-American 

 reformers. He says: "The 'Botanical Club of the American 



