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plants, and animals—do we detect any breach of continuity.” 
Whether or not the whole explanation of the matter is before us, 
botanists, in company with workers in other branches of natural 
science, cannot but be deeply interested in Professor Bose’s work, 
and admire his ingenuity in experiment, and the keen enthusiasm 
which he has brought to bear upon his subject. 
A. B. R. 
the neighbourhood. By the late Col. Sir Henry Conetr, K.C.B 
F.L.S. ith an Introduction by W. B. Hemstey, F.R.S., 
and 200 Illustrations in the text drawn by Miss M. Surra; 
and a Map. London: Thacker & Co. 8vo, pp. lxviii, 652. 
Price £1. 
Tuts extremely well-printed, well-illustrated, and in every way 
satisfactory book marks a new departure in our colonial floras. 
Books devoted to the flora of some particular district, and suitable 
Flora Simlensis: a Handbook of the Flowering Plants of Simla and 
find th 
lettered Habenaria ensifolia seems to be rather H. pectinata; a new 
species of the genus—H. Elizabethe Duthie—is dese bed. 
The volume is prefaced by a well-written notice of Collett from 
the pen of the Director of Kew Gardens, and Mr. Hemsley, on 
contributes a useful introduction and glossary. It will be remem- 
bered that Mr. Hemsley co-operated with Collett in the paper 
the genus Neocolletia was established. It is of course to be regrett 
that the author did not live to see the completion of the _ 
