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The bicentenary of the Imperial Botanic Garden of St. Peters- 
burg has called forth the publication of a great memoir on the 
history (from 1713 to 1913) and the organisation of the Garden. 
So far, one volume, “ Historical Sketch of the Imperial Botanic 
Garden of S. Petersburg (1713-1913),” by V. I. Lipsky, has been 
published, a quarto of 412 pages with 54 illustrations, mostly views 
from the Garden and in the houses, Not less than 297 pages are 
given up to the early history of the Garden (1713-1823), so much 
of which has hitherto been obscure. 
Like most modern scientific works published in Russia, the 
memoir is written in Russian, as is the bulk of the more recent 
rooted in the Russian people, and it has begun to speak almost 
exclusively in its own native tongue. ish to see 
science iuternationalised—and in the end science is of all countries 
and not of any particular one—may sigh at the new burden whic 
is laid on their shoulders by the upgrowth of a rapidly increasing 
- literature written in a language which, beautiful as it may be, is 
really very difficult. Latin as a means of intercommunication is— 
apart from technical descriptions—practically dead and artificial 
languages are as remote as ever from practical application. 
There is indeed for the coming generation no way out of the 
dilemma save to recognise the process as a perfectly natural, legiti- 
mate and inevitable one and toadd to its equipment a knowledge of 
a language which has already given much and promises to give still 
more. ‘This was perhaps the lesson which impressed itself most on 
the writer during the days when the Botanic Garden on the Neva 
celebrated its bicentenary amid the acclamations of an assemblage 
as enthusiastic as it was representative of all that is connected with 
botany throughout the great Russian Empire. 
XLII—NOTES ON QUEENSLAND FLORIDEAE. 
A. D. Cotton, 
Mr, F. Manson Bailey’s “Comprehensive Catalogue of Queens- 
land Plants,” which has just appeared, forms a valuable addition 
to the botany of Australia. The catalogue is not limited, as is so 
often the case, to flowering plants and vascular cryptogams, but i 
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includes lengthy lists of algae, lichens and fu r. Bailey’s 
