362 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
A Queer Inpex. 
A New and Complete Index to the Botanical Magazine from its com- 
mencement in 1787 to the end of 1904, including the First, 
Second, and Third Series. To which is prefixed a History of the 
Magazine by W. Bottine Hemstey, F.R.S., F.U.8. London: 
Lovell Reeve & Co. 8vo, cloth. Pp. Ixiii, 180. Price One 
Guinea. 
supposed but said so— this index has been prepared by Mr. W. 
Botting Hemsley ’—and adds that « working botanists and horti- 
resemblance. 
Let us, however, say, before proceeding to justify our criticism, 
that the introductory portion of the volume, containing the hist 
of the Botanical Magazine contributed by Mr. Hemsley to the Gar- 
deners’ Chronicle of 1887 is full of interest. The curiously worded 
: y as to 
their value ; but we understand that he is, as well as for the post- 
oe evidently written in haste—which brings down the history 
to 1904 
synonyms and which are retained, all being printed in roman type. 
The entries are thus often misleading; thus when we look up the 
unb,. no 
When in this Journal for 1883 (p. 249) we reviewed the General 
Indew to the first 107 volumes of the Magazine produced by Mr. 
Edward Tonks, we felt compelled to point out its deficiencies, and 
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said that ‘‘ to be a creditable performance [it] should be revised by 
a competent botanist.” But Mr. Tonks’s—or rather Mr. Buckley’s 
