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CORRECTED AVERAGE TEMPERATURE FOR THE ENSU- 
ING WEEK, DEDUCED ag ч THE OBSERVATIONS 
OF FORTY-THREE YEARS, AT CHISWICK.— 48°4, 
WirH the fall of Antananarivo 
Madagascar. the French are complete masters 
of Madagascar, a result generally 
admit! n by the enterprising traders of 
other араа, that should not only be 
advantageous to the islanders themselves, but 
in the development and utilisation of its natural 
resources, and, ily, of its enormous vege- 
table wealth, which, under native government, 
has been sadly wasted. If early and persistently- 
for EA then th 
better claim to domination in 
any other nation. After the abandonment ‘of 
the island by the Portuguese, the French 
attempted colonisation, the first attempt dating 
as far back as 1642, DR FLACOURT (Flacourtia), 
one of the earliest governors, writing in 1658, 
declares that Madagasca car est un pays qui 
"ea tout ce qui est genis à la we et 
se passer de tous les a 
de OUARS, and fae are 
= ќо botanists among the 
r ers. The latter made large col- 
FE ое whilst the 
figures of upwards of 
among them several of the finest io 
a 
э island than 
There were also issued, with this, six coloured 
sesquipedale. 
known the singular Ouvirandra, and the familiar 
Stephanotis. ApANsoN had previously described 
the celebrated Ravenala, and SONNERAT figured 
it in the narrative of his voyages to the East, 
early in the last quarter of the last century. 
The British sid had not been idle in rela- 
tion to Mada, RICHARD BOOTHBY, а 
London fermen visited the island about 1644, 
and wrote a glowing account of its Alig aga эра 
In consequence, an attempt was made to estab- 
lish a factory at St. Augustine’s, but after а 
two-years’ struggle against the natives апа 
climate, it was abandoned 
In 1815, the English Governor of Mauritius 
formed a settlement at Port Luquez, in the 
But shortly after that date the first English mis- 
sionaries established themselves in Madagascar, 
and from that time down to the present they 
have continued their labours under many viois- 
situdes, with varying success, and not withont 
interruptions. They hav 
selves to the conversion of th 
Christianity : they have laboured at their general 
education, practical and mental; and they have 
done, among other things, much towards making 
known the flora of the country, both by sending 
home living plants and seeds, and dried speci- 
mens. Indeed, it is almost entirely through 
missionaries that we in England have obtained 
our knowledge of Madagascar, its people and 
productions, Foremost comes the Rev 
E йы 8 of Polynesian Researches, a 
His , and other books. It was 
he who frst Ы to England living plants of 
Ouvirandra fenestralis (Bot. Mag., t. ы апа 
3 introduced О. Berneriana ( Bot. Mag., 
076). Horticulture is also indebted to him for 
in our columns), 
in ees own garden 
en, Grammatophyllum 
hee (Bot. Мад, t, 5179), and several other 
markable Ma any other members of the 
dius of пзе бта іп Madagascar deserve 
mention for their exertions in the cause of 
one ot but space will not permit, Yet there is 
who has consolidated T the results of his 
888 and contemporaries in the same 
which first 
a 
field whom we cannot pass over. His work is 
specially valuable for the looal information it 
contain ummary of Mr. 
BAKERS numerous papers on e colleótions 
made chiefly by English n en within t 
last twelve or fifteen years. He roughly esti- 
tes t 
ut he goes that every year 
thousands of acres of trees are burned, 
to provide ashes as manure for a теге 
form stockades around the villages. In one 
village alone he counted 10,000 trees used in this 
way; and in another place no fewer than 
25,000 trees had been sacrificed to make a road 
to remove a tombstone from the quarry ! During 
the last twelve years the French have been 
equally active in collecting, and the collections 
have been worked out principally by the late 
Dr. Н, Baitton. The publications include a 
* See Gar 1e e ere 
Botanical Kip pet t.5 
Lih ora of 22 Journal of the 
Soci-ty, * ben 1889), рр. 246-294, by the Rev, к. Baron. n 
1857, p. 253, with a ique ; and 
CHRONICLE. 
[Остовев 19, 1895, 
— 
series of upwards of 300 magnificent quarto 
plates, representing as many ре 1 ot! 
the island. It is estimated * that 
species of Madagascan flowering Ee 
e naturalists, the flora is very similar to 
that of tropical Africa, having many elements 
in common, and exhibitiog no greater pecu- ; 
liarities than distant parts of the Со 
Readers of this journal may be referred to 
several articles on Madagascar published in tas 
columns in 1874 and 1875, from the ye of 
Captain OLIVER, an authority on the geography 
and products of this island. The illustration 
now given, figs. 80 and 82, are from his penoil, 
THE fourth part of the monu- 
mental production known as the 
Kew Index has just been issued, 
and with it the work i 
may remind our readers that it is a list of all 
the properly-authenticated names of flowering 
plants published since the time of Linnavs to 
the year 1885. It has been compiled by Mr. B. 
Daypon Jackson, under the direction of Bir 
JOSEPH OKER, an 
Index Kewensis, 
us how extremely serviceable the book is to 
workers, and it has also proved with what care 
the laborious undertakin ng has been carried out. 
The expert botanist hig readily appreciate the 
дингә of the ЬооК; but desirable to 
value and significance of each Ec m 
ference must necessarily be left to the student ts 
— All that we сап expect is оопай ШЕ 3 
the unwearied patience of Mr. JACKSON voi the 
supervision of Sir JosxyH Ноокев have secured. _ 4 
nder the circumstances just mentioned, 809 
elaborate explanation is perhaps not needed. 
d that some explana- - 
the list has 
been compiled would have been T us, e | 
should have liked to know, for peter be 
one name is inserted and another reon 
t 
d W 
ephemeral, or speedily rendered nugatory by " 
death and extinction of the plants are, 0 of cou. 
not inser or garden purposes, howev { al 
some of these names ш Murus be use to 
as historical evidence, and it ee be a - 
have them pablished in some form 
greater importance, however, is th 
supplementary volumes, bringing 
authenticated names up to dese, 38 
shall hope to see in due time. 
should also be taken to testify de gai -— 
of workers towards the compilers of th 
and thus fitly commemorate its conclusion. 
very чач wi 
with numerous silky tunics, and p 
season of vegetation broad, lorate, 
leaves, The only thing to be said against 25 
aT 
* W, В. HEMSLEY, in Science Progress, iii, рр i : 
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