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Mr. Kinney's copied descriptions of Eucalyptus, find no 

 place in his glossary? There is only one logical answer to 

 these questions, viz. : that Mr. Kinney did not know what to 

 put in and what to leave out; another proof that he is not a 

 botanist. Lest Mr. Kinney should think he can shelve the 

 blame for omissions, on Dr. Gray, we might remark that Dr. 

 Gray was writing only for students of the native flora of 

 the North-Eastern United States, in which the Order 

 Myrtacese is entirely unrepresented. Though the whole 

 thirty-six pages of the glossary are merely copied from 

 another man's book, there is nothing stated to indicate that 

 it is not Mr. Kinney's original composition ; no reference 

 to the work from which it was thus empirically taken. 

 This is plain plagiarism. 



Fifteen pages are transcribed from " Pharmacology of the 

 Materia Medica." Part of the article on " The Chemistry 

 of Eucalyptus " is word for word as given by Stille and 

 Maisch in the National Dispensatory under Oleum Euca- 

 lypti, save that Mr. Kinney has made several gross errors in 

 copying the figures of formulae and boiling points, which 

 entirely destroy the utility of the article. On one page 

 there are four such errors in six consecutive lines. Many 

 other gross errors are noticeable, but we have said enough 

 on this head. Where not copied, the subject matter is often 

 irrelevant. 



There is no mention of the importance of Eucalyj)tus bark 

 and kino for tanning, although E. (imygdalina, E. cdlophylla, 

 E. leucoxylon, and other species, yield valuable tan-barks. 

 The alleged relief obtained by smoking Eucalyptus leaves in 

 cases of asthma, and the use of the leaves for keeping moths 

 out of clothes, might also have been mentioned. 



The twenty-nine half-tone reproductions of photographs, 

 illustrating Calif ornian specimens of Eucalyptus, are the best 

 part of the whole compilation. It is very regrettable, that 

 the time, energy and money, which Mr. Kinney expended 

 over his book^ did not bring forth better results, as might 

 have been the case. We really fail to see of what use the 

 book Avill be to anyone . — J. Burtt Davy. 



