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record has been carried down to the end of 1892, and the extent of 

 the revision " may be gauged from the fact that, whereas the issue in 

 the Journal of Botany comprised 1,619 names, occupying 148 pages, 

 an average of over ten names to the page, in its present form our 

 little book contains 1,825 names, and occupies 188 pages, an average 

 of less than ten names to the page." Even had there been no 

 additions we should have commended a re-issue, for a bibliography 

 scattered through the pages of three volumes of the Journal of Botany 

 compares unfavourably with a compact little volume like that now 

 before us. As the title implies, the work is an index, "intended 

 mainly as a guide to further information," and as such is admirable; 

 references to the chief sources of further information being freely given. 



The term botanist is held to include all who have in any way 

 contributed to the literature of botany, who have made scientific 

 collections of plants, or have otherwise assisted directly in the progress 

 of botany, exclusive of pure horticulture. Mere patrons have, as a 

 rule, not been included, or those known only as contributing small 

 details to a local flora. The authors have done their work well and 

 made a valuable contribution to botanical literature. Bibliography 

 is an endless task and, doubtless, one might by toil find additions 

 even to the long roll of 1,825 names, among which, by the way, we do 

 not find that of Gilbert White, of Selborne, who surely might claim 

 to be inserted equally with some of those whose names are included. 



The book is nicely printed, and remarkably free from typo- 

 graphical errors. 



A Descriptive Account of the Mammals of Borneo. By Charles Hose, 

 F.R.G.S., F.Z.S. Pp. 78, with map and three plates. Diss, Norfolk: 

 Edward Abbot, 1893. 



The excellent exploring work which Mr. Charles Hose, one of the 

 Residents in the service of the Rajah of Sarawak, has been doing in 

 Borneo has been for some time known to most English scientific 

 men, partly through the receipt by many different museums of 

 zoological specimens of his collecting, and partly by the constantly- 

 recurring descriptions in scientific periodicals of new vertebrates and 

 invertebrates discovered by him in that wonderful island, the riches 

 of which still seem so far from being exhausted. 



During a recent visit to Europe, Mr. Hose has found time to 

 compile, originally merely for his own and his friends' use in the 

 jungle, the descriptions of all the mammals known to occur in the 

 island ; and at the request of some of his scientific friends he has 

 added to the rough notes thus made some short original remarks 

 drawn from his own knowledge of the species. This being the origin 

 of the unpretentious little book above quoted, any detailed criticism 

 of it would be out of place, and it should be accepted simply as the 

 first rough basis on which, as we may hope, the author will found such 

 a complete work as may be worthy of his intimate knowledge of the 

 I iornean wild beasts and their ways. 



The descriptions in this book are adapted almost or quite verbatim 

 from the technical writings of recent workers on the subject, and 

 mainly from Blanford's " Mammals of India," and Anderson's 

 "Zoology of the Yunnan Expedition"; those of the species more 

 recently discovered being, of course, taken from the original notices. 

 Following the descriptions, Mr. Hose has given his own notes, which 

 we hope will, in the future, be largely amplified, on the habits, 



