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an advantage gained at the expense of the plates, which are some- 
what unduly cut down. 
Tax Flora of Thanet—* a catalogue of the plants indigenous to 
the island with a few rare aliens, by G. M. Pittock, F.R.M.S., M.B. 
Lond. and friends ” (Margate: Robinson & Co.)—is a curious little 
production. It “embodies” the observations of the late Mr. 
Dowker and of three local folk, without whose co-operation the writer 
‘would never have ventured on the book, owing to the very limited 
time [he] could spare from professional pursuits;” Mr. Flower’s 
now “of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ”) the author acknowledges 
‘kind assistance.” The outcome is a mere list of 565 plants (with- 
out localities) in double columns, occupying ten pages! There is no 
attempt at segregation—Rubus fruticosus and R. casius are the only 
Rubi. Parturiunt montes: nascetur ridiculus mus. 
Mr. Townsenp is preparing a new edition of his Flora of Hamp- 
shire, in which he will have the help of the Rey. E. §. Marshall. 
A tone and interesting correspondence has appeared in the 
Times on Lord Kelvin’s recent address on the relation of science to 
letters addressed to us on the subject by Sir William Thiselton 
Dyer are in this respect unworthy of the high scientific position of 
the Director of Kew Gardens.” 
Tue Journal of the Royal Horticultural Society has become so 
important and useful a periodical, not only to horticulturists but to 
botanists, that its disfigurement by inappropriate and meaningless 
illustrations (which do not illustrate) is to be reeretted, The 
even funnier are the details of inflorescence figured under “ pests of 
garden vegetables” on p. 881. 
organs, bears respectively to the growth in length of the inter- 
nodes or of the intervening portions of the gS of a com- 
pound leaf. The paper appears as Deel ix. No. 5 (1903) of the 
Verhandel. d, Koninkl. Akad. .d. van Wetensch. Amsterdam (Section 2). 
