72 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
for November and December last. It is an excellent example of 
what such a flora should be, giving, besides the list of names to 
physical features of the island, notes of the rarer plants and 
varieties, a ® summary of previous (and evidently incomplete) 
A CORRESPONDENT sends us the following cutting from the Sussex 
Daily News of Dec. 26, 1904, and expresses a “5 gee curiosity to 
know how it was that the Natural History Museum failed to ‘secure 
the treasure.” We can only Say that the een er now hears of 
it for the first time, and—so ignorant is the world of its greatest 
men—that the name of “the late Rev. H. Kirby” was also pre- 
viously unknown to us, and finds no place inthe Biographical Index 
AL e 
contents with om the details "oF flowers, Sastved: and roots; stamens, 
pistils, and petals might have been gathered last year. Itis under- 
part of such judges must a5 ar the feeling of satisfaction that 
Ka pete has retained it 
rom 
and an enumeration of all the Chinese peat recorded fi in solani 
This 
WE regret that, owing to ice in his family, Mr. Bennett has 
not been able to prepare an instalment of his Supplement to. Topo- 
graphical Botany in time for our present i issue. ae 
