330 CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY, ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 
is difficult to understand how it can have commended itself to the 
Director or to the “scientific staff.” ' 
though it is thus at once evident that the execution of the 
work leaves much to be desired and that its usefulness is materially 
impaired by inconvenient arrangement, this Catalogue is an in- 
Kew, but their proportion to the mass of worthless entries which form 
the bulk of the list is small. For example, take the following: | 
“Guillemard, F.H.H. © pripedium Gardineri. [Transcript 
R. A. Roxrg, of the description given in ‘‘ The cruise of the 
‘Marchese’” 1886.] 2 ff.” 
‘Fox, Henry Elliott. See Lawson, M. A.” 
** (Lawson, DUKE ALEexanpER, & Henry Exuiotr Fox]. 
List of [plants ?] found in the Isle of Skye. 8 ff. fol.” 
This hardly be anything but the draft or the MS. of the list 
published in this Journal for 1869, pp. 108-14: it is a fair sample 
of the contents of this portion of the Catalogue, which contais 
single letters, often from persons unknown to fame, two-page lists, 
sometimes anonymous, such as 
‘*Peebles. Flora of Peebleshire, 6 July, 1880. 2 ff. 8vo.’’; 
and such illuminative double entries as 
“Niger. See Africa, West.”’ 
“‘ Africa, West. Niger Expedition. fol.” 
If the library catalogue of every scientific establishment were com- 
piled on these li 
that should be written, 
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