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Then the same methods with regard to the plant- seheggong classed 
into groups and still larger aggregate s. For e, help must be 
d 
reat Britain by these surveys; Pei initiation of this work was 
its to the late Robert Smith, of St. Andrews, and since his death 
it has been carried on by his brother, Dr. William Smith: North- 
umbria and Scotland are well advanced. Cultivation has naturally 
interfered with the wild plants; but man’s power is limite oa and the 
plants he cultivates must also be taken into account. in the 
northern districts, the upper limit of wheat- caleivadio’ is is an im- 
portant piece of information, and where wheat is stopped, oats can 
succeed. When conditions have been altered by rainage, grazing, 
or the like, these must be investigated, iasinian complica 
‘‘ WuereE is the Kew Bulletin?’ is the title of a letter in the 
Times of May 2, to which, so far as we have seen, no answer has 
been vouchsafe d. The writer, who signs himself ‘ Botanist,” con- 
iders 
bilieis that the Bulletin is essential either to the interests of eer 
or to the interests of science’’; and this is obvious, for no volum 
has been aa since the incomplete issue of 1901, while both 
Kew and science have survived the deprivation. ‘ Bots anist,’’ by 
the way, is in Paice in saying that the Bulletin ‘‘ has not been 
published since 1898, saving an odd volume in 1899’’—rather an: 
odd way of putting it: three. issues, each including three months, 
appeared in 1901, with a promise of that for 1900. At the end of: 
that bei the Director of Kew Gardens, in his evidence before the 
Committee on Botanical Work (p. 79), said: “The Bulletin remains 
a anlage record of Kew work in all its aspects,’” and (p. 98) that 
it was edited by himself. ‘ Botanist’” says: “I have heard it 
rel ated that the officials concerned religiously accumulated the 
matter that should haye been published month by month for years, 
but it was never utilized.’ In view of the interest which evidently 
attaches to the Bulletin and of the importance which attaches to a 
instance it was established, “ an answer to the — why the 
precious Kew Butletin is is no longer issu — 
