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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
a A Ls paabga Botanical Discoverses in China. By EH. Brer- 
, M.D. London oe gi Marston & Co. 2 vols. 
nse ae pp. 1167. Price ‘80s. 
handsome work Dr. aaa has brought together 
hinese botany as recorded in ee native botanical works and 
by early European trav cer sdec ow he brin s his labours up to 
date with this very exhaustive “ams in which the history is brought 
down to the present day, and the investigations of living workers 
are eo recorded. Dr. Bretschneider had intended to delay until 9 
lore Sinensis had been brought to a conelusion ; ‘ but,’ 
sige) spe cannot afford to wait any longer, for it is not to be fore. 
seen n Mr. Hemsley’s admirable work, interrupted more than 
four Bere ago, will be brought to an end.’ * Tt must be confessed 
that Dr. Bretschneider has not overstated his case, for the more or 
less regular publication of the Index stopped in 1891, only one 
small instalment a whe fifty pages Trophead ppeared since July of 
that year. Now e Flora of Tropical Africa and the Cape 
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not = the Chines Flora to fall into abeyance for an indefinite 
Dr. vith grow divides his history into five periods :—i. The 
Pre-Linne an period (from the Middle Ages down to about the 
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tending to 1793; iii, The period from 1793 to the first war between 
England and China in 1840; iy. from 1840 to 1860; v. from 1860 
to the present time. Each of these periods is divided and sub- 
divided, always with much care and judgmen nt, into numerous 
sections, which considerations of space will not allow us to 
enumerate. It must suffice to say that the author passes in r 
the work of all those who have either described or collected Chinese 
the 
eres ‘chine eh sketch and an account of their work, as it 
ects indi 
persons mentioned, the other of the ants; the book is well and 
carefully printed, and may stand as a model for publications of its 
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We are glad to note that the pages of this Journal are frequently 
laid wade contribution, — we propose to give here one or two 
item ormation w a small extent supplement Dr. 
reference to a collection of Chinese drawings e executed for John 
Reeves as “still existing in the Hort. Soc. library.” In this 
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