404 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Journal dealing with mia relating to economic botany from a 
tory as well as a practical standpoint. In No. 38, for 
September, are 0 tes on the agricultural products of the Ivory and 
Gold Coasts, and an oe account of the tribal constitution 
of a district of the us reg 
Tue new Director of Kew | is to be congratulated on the steady 
issue of thes Bullen: of Miscellaneous Information, which this time 
looks as if it had come to stay. We note with special oe ae 
the publication of oa additions made to the Herbarium during 
recent years. It is an important and indeed essential ‘bajurict to 
the usefulness of any institution that folk should be able to know 
what they are likely to find there and how its ror are increased, 
he this, during the late dicebtdrats, has been impossible so far as 
een concerned. Nos. ws a 7—we are glad to notice 
No. 6) a reprint of Mr. J. H. Maiden’s history of the Beet 
Botanic Gardens up to 1848, wisely placed here as a 
manent record than the newspaper in which they were published 
could afford. In No. 7 is a list of the Mesembr ryanthemums culti- 
vated at Kew, with reference to the position held in horticulture by 
a genus in former times when it was in greater favour than it is 
a 
ulletin the name ‘ M. digitiforme Haw.” ; if by this M. digitiform 
Thunb. is intended, that name is antedated b by M. digitatum Ait. 
(see Journ. Bot. 1884, 6). 
E received from Prof. Oliver for Publication some comments 
on the article on “ Botany in England ” published in this Journal 
for September (pp. 310-8314). We su stibpieebaal the omission of cer- 
tain personalities in no way affecting the argument, but Prof 
Oliver, ee recast his paper, now proposes to publish it in the 
New Phy oe 
We a supplement to this number the greater part o 
the Thtandationsl Rules for Botanical Nomenclature adopted at the 
International Botanical Congress held in Vienna in n 1905; the con- 
cluding portion will include a ‘list of the genera represented i in British 
books for which the onference decided, for reasons which may 
