94 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
have more than once pointed out, the value of the Index greatly 
depends on — intelligent use: in many instances the cba Wate 
in the present volume is misleading. To take but one exa 
The Journals abound in interesting matter, by no means 
confined to botanical topics. Douglas was a man of keen 
observation, and animals as well as plants form the subject of his 
notes. Atmospherical phenomena are also chronicled, and his 
description of the ascent of Mouna Kuah in Hawaii, the frozen 
u s raphi 
account of that ge In fe Narrative of a Whaling Voyage 
in 1833-36, F. D. Bennett mentions his meeting with Douglas in 
Honoruru shortly arte his return from the ascent, and states 
that ‘his collection of fossils obtained from the voleanic moun- 
tains of Hawaii was large and valuable.’”’ Mr. Wilks makes no’ 
reference to these items a in his memoir, from Whicl it appears 
that ‘several volumes of lunar, chronometrical, magnetical, 
meteorological, and geographical observations”’ referring to t 
olumbia ri and California, “ with a volume of field 
sketches,’ which are Ene wi to have existed, have also been lost. 
In one respect the work is disappointing: we refer to the 
memoir which occupies pp. 295-7. In a book which is practically 
Douglas’s chief monument, this should, we think, have been as 
full as possible, and should at least have included pgieieees to 
the numerous biographies already existing, som which are 
indicated in the Biographical Index of British Bolankda and show 
vas his work was duly recognized by his contemporaries. In 
don’s Gardener’s Magazine for ian 1842, will be found a full 
rapiut of the Douglas Monument Committee formed within 
two years of his death, whose te resulted in the erection, 
in oa churchyard of geri ee a memorial ‘of which a picture as 
the Gardener’s Magazine for 1836 should raebdaily have been 
a if only for a Farag. fact that it appears in three 
nguages—English, , and German—in parallel columns. 
Doug 
included : the sen price of the book saislas the seiekincadl to 
ble. 
