JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
EDITED BY 
JAMES BRITTEN, £.5°6., PAS. 
LATE SENIOR ASSISTANT, DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRIvIsH MvusEuM. 
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Tux Journat or Borany was established in 1863°by Dr. Seemann. 
In 1872 the editorship = assumed by Dr. Henry Trimen, who. 
assisted during part of the time by Mr. J. G. Baker and Mr. Spencer 
Moore, carried it on until the end of 1879, when he left Baslane for 
Ceylon. Since then it has been in the hands of the present Editor. 
covered by no Sitio periodical. It affords a ready and prompt medium 
for the publication of new discoveries, and appears regularly and 
punctually on the Ist of each month. iret more especially concerned 
with systematic botany, observations: of every kind are welcomed. 
ee Especial prominence has from the first bei given to British botany, 
and it may safely be said that nothing of primary importance bearing 
upon this subject has remained unn oticed. 
Bibliographical matters have also received and continue to receive 
considerable attention, and the history of many — publications 
has been elucidated. Every number contains review n 
~ important books written by competent critics: in this pre in every other 
no way officially connected with the Department of Botany of the 
British Museum, the Journa T bas from the first been controlled by 
those whose acquaintance with the National Herbarium has enabled 
them to utilize its pages for recording facts of interest and importance ~ 
regarding the priceless botanical collections which the Museum contains 
In 1896 it became neces ssary to increase the size of the Journal, owing 
to the TatoReE of papers sent for publication: the number of plates — 
was at the same time augmented. 
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