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into separate parts for zoology and botany, — as is the long- 

 continued " Annales des Sciences Naturelles " of Paris, and the 

 " Journal of the Linnaean Society of London." A remedy or 

 alleviation of these obstacles to publicity, and of others like 

 them, is supplied by the catalogue of papers published by the 

 Royal Society of London ; which noble work was instigated 

 by the late Professor Henry ; yet, as this embraces all sciences 

 and fills a goodly series of volumes, it can seldom be in the 

 library of botanists. 



In speaking of the obstacles to scientific publicity which 

 are interposed by too limited editions, high prices caused by 

 undue luxury in plates, and inopportune or inappropriate 

 media of publication, De Candolle refers to customs in the 

 book trade and in government patronage which need reform ; 

 and mentions incidentally what a botanical library costs. He 

 says there should be by the side of every great herbarium and 

 every considerable botanic garden, a special botanical library, 

 without which it is impossible to determine exactly the plants 

 of the one or the other, or to write any good Monograph or 

 Flora. Such a library costs fifty or sixty thousand francs (ten 

 or twelve thousand dollars), and needs about 12,000 francs 

 for annual purchases. He asks how many such establishments 

 there are in the world, and concludes that there may perhaps 

 be between ten and twenty. 



The section on the comparative superiority of certain kinds 

 of works, sets forth the greater value of books or systematic 

 works as compared with memoirs or articles. 



The language to be employed in botanical publications is 

 the topic of a special article. For descriptions, Latin, and the 

 Latin of Linnaeus. " Le Latin des botanistes n'est pas cette 

 langue obscure et a reticences de Tacite, obscure et a pe"- 

 riodes pompeuses de Ciceron, obscure et a graces tortille'es 

 d'Horace, qu'on nous fait apprendre au college. Ce n'est pas 

 meme le langage plus sobre et plus clair d'un naturaliste tel 

 que Pline. C'est le Latin arrange par Linne a l'usage des 

 descriptions et, j'oserai dire, a l'usage de ceux qui n'aiment 

 ni les complications grammaticales, ni les phrases disposees 

 sens dessus dessous, ni les parentheses enchassees dans les 

 phrases." 



