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NOTICES OF BOOKS. 
Catalogue of the Library of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Bulletin 
of Miscellaneous Information. Additional Series III. ] 
at the Gardens. 1899. Paper boards, pp. viii, ff. 790. Price 
7s. 6d. [500 copies printed.] 
Ir weighs ounds, is nearly ae inches thick, and contains 
1588 pages, 790 be which are blank. For this last feature there is 
probably some sufficient but not raitaag reason. It will be useful 
for the Kew authorities, and will save the trouble of interleaving 
pra copy for the seater of aioe: ; but the 499 purchasers 
e Catalogue will hardly on it in this way, and their 
book twice as large as it need have been. Such Ageoaoratt hoe ‘a 
inclined also to regret that so portly a arse was n 
ding more appropriate to its bulk ; they may jet think 
that some Reet more descriptive of the prem ors A of the than 
** Kew etin—Additional Series III.’’ might appear apd its 
broad 
ba oy 
It is, however, y the inside of such a work as this that it must 
be judged, and with act that the Catalogue has been prepared by 
Mr. B. D. Jackson prepossesses one strong gly in its favour. 
learn from the preface contributed by the Director of the Gardens 
that Mr. Jackson has had ‘the adgistance of the scientific staff,” 
Common sense s well 
er. 
looked up was that of Sir Jeaaih Banks. Here we find ‘ Voyage 
in the ‘Endeavour.’ See Hawksworth, J.” For this we have to go 
to ‘‘ Travels,” where we find it under ‘‘ Hawkesworth”; and in the 
same division we find under ‘“‘ Banks”’ Sir Joseph Hooker’ 8 sae 
of his ‘ Journal ’—there is no cross- rp gee from the eral” 
section to this entry, and it was only by accident that we Velie 
upon it. Later on we find five entries under Banks's name in the 
section devoted to ‘‘ Manuscripts ’—again withoutany raise reference 
to or from the two other sections in which his name occurs! It 
would seem, therefore, that before we can be sure that we have all the 
information contained about only one writer, we must refer to each 
of the four sections of the Catalogue: a waste of time which pice 
easily have ~~ bok aa by placing all entries in one alphabet, or 
even, to some extent, by the use of oe references. Phas can ly 
suppose tha experienced a bi her as Mr. Jackson is 
responsible for this irritating and thistenaitig mode 4 entry, and it 
