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‘Britten " instead of to ‘ Britton” ; but it is less easy to see why 
J..N. Rose appears as “N. E, Rose” in all the entries under 
Houstonia and elsewhere. - riosema voslchas ronum Taub. (1894) is 
evidently identical with KE. pulcherrimum Baker f. (1895), the 
striking appearance of the plant having suggested the same name 
to both authors. Two omissions m may be mentioned here—Cordia 
Bakeri and Ehretia Bakeri, proposed in this eye for 1895 (p. 88, 
footnote) for V. obovata Baker in Kew Bull, 1894, 28, non Balf. f. 
in Proc. R. Soc. Edinb. xii. 80 Snot and F. macrophylla Baker, 
l.c. 29, non Wall. in Roxb. Fl. Ind. (ed. Carey) ii. 848 (1824). It 
is needless to say that ie errors such as these do not de- 
preciate the value of the work; the wonder is that there are so 
few of them ! 
A Sketch of the Life and Labours of Sir William KS ag Hooker. 
(With Portrait.) By Sim Joserpx Datton Hooker, G.C.S.I., 
&e. Annals of Botany, December, 1902, pp. ett epee 14s, 
Ir is greatly to be regretted that this important and interesting 
memoir should have been issued as a number of a periodical instead 
of as a separate volume. We can see no gain in this method of 
publication, which is less saute and in every way less con- 
venient than a separate volume would have been. Apart from 
this, we have nothing but praise for the latest—we hope not last— 
of the works by which Sir Joseph Hooker has made the scientific 
d deb as 
Director of Kew Gardens, a position wherein, if we may accept the 
view of his successor, oot eight of the Empire is more felt even 
than by the Prime Minister ; * and from these pages it is easy to 
see whence Sir Sosepin pire d the enthusiasm for work which made 
directorate even more illustrious than that of his father. In 
1844 and 1862 Sir William brought out no fewer than twenty-one 
editions of the po apes Guide to the Gardens, the last issue of 
which appeared i in 1 885. 
The ‘Sketch,’ as Sir , oseph modestly terms his work, is much 
more than a biography 0 f Sir William ; it contains, from ori 
documents, an account of the circumstances that led to the trans- 
ference of the Gardens, then the private propaig of the Sovereign, 
to the nation as a scientific establishment; and the narrative is 
annotated throughout with biographical information as to various 
of the persons incidentally mentioned. The appendices contain a 
complete bibliography of Sir William’s works, with notes and 
observations; a list of his chief scrapes “ea “eee : and 
‘‘an attempt to ane sify the more important articles contained in — 
the Botanical Journals edited by Sir W. J. Predken:': This last, 
* Dyer writes: ‘1 often think, and have no doubt often said, that we at 
Kew feel individuali “the weight of the the Empire as a whol e, more even than 
they: do-in Downing Beret?” "Sir M. Grant Duff’s Notes from a Diary, 
1881-86, ii. 21 (under date March 1, 1885). ; : 
