6 HENRY FLETCHER HANCE. 
co. logists ”’ have already been cited from the ‘Journals of the Linnean 
Bociety,’ and the following have appeared i in this Journal :— 
* On - e so-called Olives (Canarii spp.) of Southern China,” 
1871, p 
o on Ge source of the China-root of Commerce,” 1872, p. 102. 
‘*On a Chinese culinary oer: 1872, p. 146. 
“On the Ch’ing muh Hsiang ‘Green Putchuck’ of the 
oan tek 1873, p. 72. 
“ Uses of the common Rush in China,” 1875, p. 106. 
*On a Mongolian Grass producing intoxication in Cattle” 
(stipe indians ie sp.), 1876, p. 210. 
ae ere “a — on intoxicating Grasses” (Stipa pekin- 
267. 
eee orte thse aia Ot the China Matting of Commerce,” 1879, p. 99. 
In addition to the above I know that he furnished notes from 
time to time to China newspapers and magazines, but I have 
Gnsorcistaly at the moment no access to files of these periodicals. 
r. Hance’s method of work must have been thor ough and 
painsta aking in the highest degree, and it bore worthy fruit, not 
only in the facies: of his statements, but in a wealth of reference 
and illustration that arb s 
isolated position. Moreo 
| as 
“ Note on Sue (870, p . 801), and his “* Etymology of Vince- 
toxicum”’ (1883, p. 158), Moth of which interesting specimens I 
may commend to my readers for perusal. 
e was eminently ‘ laudator i oneds acti,” perhaps too much 
so, as he himself u sed to 
‘* purist,” and a glance over his writings _— that. he did not 
clature scrupulous accuracy iad him somewhat i im- 
patient of mistakes by others, and printers’ errors in his pa 
ave, On occasion, drawn fro: 
puee Kditors of this Journal! A few years a 
convinced that a acce pes system of Latin orthography was 
modern and ria; a once prepared his own manuscript 
As I hhad offered my help in seeing his through 
the press, he wrote to me on June Ist, 1883:—‘I am sending two 
papers, exclusively Latin, to Britten. Kindly read them oprefally. 
If you notice any novelties in orthography, don’t alter them.* I 
have recently gone through Brambach’s ‘excellent little ‘ Hiilfs- 
bichlein,’ and it is useless and wrong to persist in old unauthorised 
spellings. And these changes are all discussed and noticed, I find, 
in our best Latin Dictionary, “Lewis and Short’s, whic very 
souonsy to my thinking, is American, since classical Philology i is 
-lasaggie n the weakest point of American scholarship 
ig * The: Editor. bie. Qoined to admit theoe he sy eetibabodbad? 
