CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY, ROYAL GARDENS, KEW. 831 
The drawings in question were presented to the Department of 
Botany by the Admiralty in 1843, and many years since were 
mounted in a way suitable to their value and placed in eight 
Solander cases; Mr. E. G. Baker does not remember to have made 
any vain nor is it stated with what the comparison was made. 
It is unnecessary to snl instances of this kind of entry; 
they wa every page. But there are errors of omission as well as 
of commission are at Kew valuable collections of drawings 
e.g. the ditabedaiig: series made for the Botanical Mag from 
1800 to 1826, 1891,* as well as, if we mistake not, 
can find no It might be supposed that drawings are 
patted acini, Re this” is not the case; for we have such 
entrie 
= Bo nd & ae drawings in Kew Collection [by R. 
CuNNINGHAM]. 
“ Clark, J. Aubrey. hide of fungi: ined. 2. 1873-79. 4to.” 
which show that gures are carefully, 
if somewhat oddly, recorded. If * Bo nd and Duncanson’s drawin 
are really ‘‘by R. Cunningham,” it would seem that they should be 
catalogued under his name. No information is given as to what 
matters. For ex moe a we are told, under ‘Hill, John,” that 
there is at Kew “ an o. volume of 122 leaves and 42 drawings,” 
but it is not honatit incsaiit to give any indication as to what 
plants are represented. 
We have not pga many obvious errors in ore through 
the vo olume ; ; one uch may be noted on fol. 662, here Willi am 
We 
Wem and ‘‘ Feilden, Ouwald Mosley.” Mr. Feilden’s “ Rare 
Welsh Plants” is a mere list of no grr appended to the Report 
of a Welsh Land Commission, and c¢ rtainly does not merit entry 
in a Catalogue of this kind. But we Aki in vain for information 
as to the dates of the separate parts of certain Kew publications, 
which is probably to be obtained only at Kew, and might fairly 
have been expected in such a book as this 
The ‘List of Kew Publications’ " pabiialel in 1898 was as re- 
markable as this Catalogue for its redundancies and omissions, and 
some of the latter were supplied later in the Kew Bulletin: it would 
be well in like manner to supplement the present work by a list of 
the drawings at sae Be also to print Prof. Oliver's MS. index to 
the Hookerian periodicals. Should the Bulletin have been dis- 
continued, as seems possible, for it is eight months since a number 
* Journ. Bot. 1891, 22, + L.c. 1899, 182. 
