386 NOTICE. 



It would be impossible to conclude this notice without an 

 acknowledgment, on the part of those who have edited the 

 Journal, of the help and support they have met with. Whatever 

 value these volumes may possess is mainly due to those who have 

 so generously contributed to fill their pages ; and not only for 

 myself, but for those who have preceded me, I tender them warm 

 and hearty thanks. 



JAMES BKITTEN. 



P.S. — Although the names at present sent in for the proposed 

 General Index to the twenty volumes are not sufficient to pay for 

 the printing, I have begun to prepare it, and it will shortly be 

 issued. A feeling of the usefulness of such a work, and a hope 

 that copies enough will ultimately be sold to defray the cost of 

 printing, have decided me upon taking this step. 



I may perhaps be allowed to express my opinion that the best 

 and readiest way of quoting the Journal is by the year, thus : 

 " Journ. Bot. 1870, p. 33." The double series of numbers to the 

 later volumes, caused by the introduction of a ' New Series,' 

 sometimes leads to confusion, which cannot well arise if the 

 method above indicated be followed. 



'i, Gumley Row, Islewortli, 

 November 2«, 18^2. 



