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and his unwearied attention to tlie duties of his profession, are 

 narrated in a communication from " a gentleman lately arrived from 

 Prince of Wales's Island," published in the A^inah of Botany (vol. i. 

 pp. 509-573: 1805), to which it was sent by Banks. A "list 

 of Clove, Nutmeg, and other valuable plants " collected and shipped 

 b}' Smith to various centres — Kew, the Cape, Madras and Cal- 

 cutta — as well as to Penang— is appended by Smith to the communi- 

 cation ; 71,2(iG nutmeg, 55,204? clove, and a " variety of rare and 

 valual)le plants '' amounting to 29,988 " were so shipped. Nearly two 

 hundred drawings of plants by a native artist made at this pei'iod, 

 localised in Smith's hand, are in the Department of Botany ; dried 

 specimens were sent to Banks and to J. E. Smith, who in llees's 

 Ct/clopcedia^ xi. (s. v. Dicksoma), acknowledges his indebtedness to 

 Smith "for most numerous and valuable additions to his herbarium." 

 In 1805 Smith became Superintendent of the Gardens at Penang, 

 where he probably remained until his death, which occurred in or 

 before 1808 ; J. E. Smith refers to him as " the late," and the volume 

 of Kees quoted was published on Nov. 28 of that year. 



It remains to be added tliat Mrs. Marriott's volume is well 

 printed and embellit>hed with maps and illustrations, and has an 

 excellent index. 



Index Kewensis Vlantarum Phanerogamariim Siipplemenfinn 

 Quinfum Nomina et Synonyma omnium Generum et Sprciernm 

 ab initio MDCCCCXI bisque ad finem anni MDCCCCXV 

 nonnnUa etiam antea edita complectens diicta et consiJio 

 D. Prain confeceriint Ilerharii Horti Regii Botanici 

 Kewensis ciiratores. Oxonii e prelo Clarentoniano MDCCCCXI. 

 4to, cloth. Price £3 155. 



Few publications receive a warmer welcome from systeraatists 

 than is extended to each supplement to the Index Keivensis as it 

 appears ; and few of the many important works undertaken at Kew 

 are of more utility to botanists in general. So indispensable has the 

 Index become that it is difficult to realise that it began its existence 

 less than thirty years ago — -the first part appeared in 1893, and only 

 those who were working before that period can fully realise the boon 

 which has been conferred by Dr. Daydon Jackson's industry and 

 Darwin's generosity. 



In some respects each part is more welcome than its predecessors 

 have been, for, as the work has proceeded, additions have been made 

 which, while not interfering with its general plan, have considerably 

 increased its value. These were noticeable in the Fourth Supplement, 

 in which the dates of publication of each species — the absence of 

 which was a serious drawback to the usefulness of the Index and its 

 earlier Supplements — were supplied; the use of italics and the sign 

 " =r " in connection with synonymy were wisely abandoned: the 

 work in its later Supplements is what it purports to be — an index, and 

 nothing more. In the present Supplement w^e have an additional 



