448 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JUNE 
THE FIRST ISSUE of the Popular Science Monthly, that for June, under 
the editorial management of Dr. J. McKeen Cattell has appeared. It gives 
promise of a strong grasp upon a very important constituency, one which is 
eager to read about science and is in peculiar danger of being imposed upon 
by science “falsely so-called.” The editor and the long list of men of sci- 
ence who have promised to support the journal are a guarantee that the 
standard will be very high, and that the contents may be depended upon. 
In this number Professor D. T. McDougal has given an interesting and well- 
illustrated account of The New York Botanical Garden, and several botanical 
reviews appear. 
In THE Journal of Botany for June (pp. 224-229) there is reproduced an 
overlooked paper by Rafinesque. It is not included in Dr. R. E. Call’s 
account of the Life and Writings of Rafinesque, is not in the Royal Society’s 
Catalogue of Scientific Papers, and several names in the paper are not to be 
found in the /wdex Kewensis. It was published in Loudon’s Gardeners’ Mag- 
azine, nineteen volumes of which appeared (1826-1843). The title of the 
paper is ‘‘ Remarks on the Encyclopedia of Plants of Loudon, Lindley, and 
Sowerby,” and the citation is Loudon’s Gard. Mag. 8: 245-248. 1832. The 
comments are in the usual style of Rafinesque, very brief but very direct, and 
it will be a matter of interest, as Dr. James Britten suggests, to collate the 
names with the Kew /mdex and with American nomenclature. The paper 
closes with the characteristic statement that “ Botany will never be perma- 
nently fixed until all errors are exploded and corrected.” 
