BOOK-NOTES, NEWS, ETO. 819. 
in view: a volume now in course of preparation, to be followed 
from time to time by similar collections, deals with the subject of 
Vegetable Fibres.” The exertion of looking through six volumes is 
too much for those who read the Bulletin, and the Government, out 
a series of ‘‘collections” which will enable them to avoid this 
trouble. The art of bookmaking is not one which in these days 
stands in need cial encouragement the Kew authorities 
of offi 
wish to produce a useful work, they may be reminded that another 
summer has been allowed to pass without the production of the 
long and often promised, and greatly needed, Guide to the Gardens. 
HE disconnection of the articles in the Bulletin is “in accordance 
the principle laid down by the Government that + sndeiieliead 
of public interest a be piblichdd as speedily as possible.” But 
surely the Garden Guide is of far greater ‘‘ public interest” than 
information about this little-known group’ [the Aldabra Islands] % 
in great part consisting of a letter from the Administrator of the 
Seychelles "dated June 13, 1892, whack merely repeats some of the 
facts noticed on us [Natural Science] a year ago. 
Mr. G. F. Scorr Extior has started for Mombassa, whence he 
will proceed ‘direct to Lake ee Nyanza, for the purpose of 
ple ee Uganda. He is assisted by a grant from the ke 
Society, and the results of his previous journeys warrant the sup- 
position that he will bring back with him large collections of general 
THe non-appearance of ‘thes September number of Hardwicke’s 
peicuee leaio points to the cessation of the oldest established of 
r popular natural history journals. It was established by Robert 
Hardwicke 3 in 1865, under the editorship of Mr. M. C. Cooke, who 
was succeeded in 1872 by Dr. J. E. Taylor, its editor up to the last. 
Although it has for some time hardly occupied the Ushers which it 
held during the earlier years of its existence, it has been a source 
of information to many, and we trust that its "Seacxieon is but 
temporary. 
Pastor Knerpp, the Bavarian parish priest whose name is 
familiar in connection with his ‘‘ water-cure,” has issued a Plant- 
tlas, containing 69 pictorial i cdctapne Re of the medicinal 
plants he employs. The English version is brought out by Messrs. 
H. Grevel & Co., of King Street, Covent Garden. The figures, 
fr t 
carefully coloured. Although not sufficiently complete in detail to 
satisfy ms pean the hitle b ake is likely to be useful to those for 
od. 
