400 BULLETIN OF MISCELLANEOUS INFORMATION. 
said that science has suffered to any serious extent from the delay 
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in their publication. The issue for ‘“‘January and February” | 
contains an interesting ‘‘ Moss-flora of Kew Gardens”’ by Mr. E. § 
foreign, prefaces to official works, and the like. From this it would 
appear that the cause of the extraordinary delay in publishing the 
Bulletin may be accounted for by the lack of suitable material, but 
this hardly justifies the continued and systematic inaccuracy in the 
matter of dating which has characterized the Bulletin throughout its 
existence, and which cannot fail in the future to cause inconvenience. 
n even more striking example of dilatoriness may be found in 
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the absence of living plants is mainly responsible for synonymy : 
“If all descriptive Beastiats were aisle, és possible at Kew, to 
look at the dry bones (!) of the plants with which they deal with 
: form which clad them when alive, we 
should be spared much of that prolific synonymy which is the bane 
of the systematist.” The writer would know, if he read his Journal 
a oy ae more closely the Floras which he is professing 
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to review, that are responsible for their full share of 
_ synonymy to which he objects, and that in spite of the proximity . 
of the Gardens to the Herbarium 
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