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price is fixed for the first six collections to £ 2 pro centnrie, and 

 for the following numbers to Shillings 30. The collection contains 

 in his first number over 1500, and goes down in the last collections 

 to 300 — 400 specimen." 



Five years having elapsed since the publication of the Biblio- 

 graphiml Index of British and Irish Botanists, we propose to issue a 

 supplement. This will in the first instance appear in the pages of 

 the Journal, and will probably be reprinted in pamphlet form, 

 although the considerable loss incurred upon the original work is 

 somewhat discouraging to the compilers. The supplement will 

 include, in addition to those who have died during the past five 

 years, certain names which, from one cause or another, were 

 omitted from the Index. The Editor of this Journal will be glad 

 to receive a note of any such omissions, in order that the supple- 

 ment may be made as complete as possible. 



Mr. John Weathers has resigned the post of Assistant Secretary 

 to the Royal Horticultural Society. 



The Standard of October 26 waxes eloquent over " the con- 

 clusion of the Flora Capensis," apparently in ignorance of the fact 

 that this "conclusion" has only just begun. "For the last twenty 

 years," says the Standard, " the determination of South African 

 plants alone has occupied almost the whole time of one member of 

 the Kew Staff. As the number of these is said to have exceeded 

 ten thousand, we are only surprised to find the word ' almost ' 

 inserted. The book, of course, occupied several years in preparation 

 and publication, and so fast, indeed, has material been found, that 

 it became necessary to issue an appendix with the last volume. 

 Travellers and residents in South Africa have co-operated in sending 

 materials to Kew ; and although, no doubt, more appendices will 

 have to be issued, or perhaps another edition of the work under- 

 taken, before the next quarter of a century is ended, yet even now 

 botanists can obtain a good and trustworthy notion of the flora of 

 the southern part of the Dark Continent." The suggestion that 

 a new edition may be undertaken before twenty-five years have 

 elapsed will amuse those who know that exactly that period has 

 been necessary to produce a single volume of the work. 



The Botanical Department of the British Museum has lately 

 acquired about seventy drawings by the late Dr. Lindley, among 

 which are the greater number of the originals of the plates of his 

 Collectanea Botanica. The drawings, which are beautifully executed, 

 are many of them in the style and manifestly were drawn under 

 the influence of Ferdinand Bauer, who was at that time associated 

 with Lindley in the Ditfitalinin Mono;/ra])hia. 



The Editor of The Naturalist is anxious that we should point 

 out that " there is not, and never has been, to [Ijis] knowledge, a 

 journal called the 'Yorkshire Naturalist,'" as might be supposed 

 from a foot-note to p. 250 of our June number. The slip is not a 

 very serious one, for no one could doubt what journal was intended, 

 and it is correctly cited on p. 259 ; but as Mr. Roebuck seems to 

 think the matter important, we gladly publish this correction. 



