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present instance, the title-page, bearing date ‘‘1898,” was issued 
with the number appearing in January of that year; the same date 
appears on the front side and back of the paper wrapper now issued 
for the volume. It may be well to record the actual dates at which 
the various parts were issued, taken from their wrappers; the last 
wrapper bears no date :— 
Pare Loppst-96: 225.0. June, 1898. Parts 6-8, pp. 337-496.. March, 1899 
mre pp 1-144... es Jaly,:. ». 9, pp. 497-624.... Aug. % 
» 3 & 4, pp. 145-208... Sept. ,, », 10, pp. 625-688 .. received 
» 9, pp. 209-336 .... Oct. 10 Nov. 1902 
Any reference to delay naturally suggests the Kew Bulletin, 
which, whatever its merits or demerits in other respects, will always 
occupy a high place among literary curiosities. ‘The number for 
“ Jan._March, 1901,” which appeared in September of that year 
but bears the Stationery Office date of December, 1900, announced 
that the volume for 1900 was “in preparation,” and that the pub- 
lication would be “‘resumed’’; since then 
appeared, the last being that dated ‘ July-September, 1901,”’ and 
issued in the latter month. It may be mentioned that during the 
reflection upon the work of the Gardens subsequent events 
have justified our protest. The claim of the Bulletin to be ‘ prac- 
tically a continuous record w work in all its branches,’ which 
was put forward at the recent Botanical Commission, can hardly be 
maintained, in face of these remarkable lapses. 
1 , : (p. 363). 
Mr. Linton’s oversight may be excused on the ground that no 
reference is made to Mr. Macfarlane’s paper in the singularly 
indications which are too often met with. We print the pa aph 
= it te though we think it might Fiteg been ice toads 
Xpressed. 
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