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etter; it was not until after Mr. Jukes- 
repeatedly and strongly to the editor that any ate was taken f 
our work, and then the portion of our report relating to the results 
of peeviins aicike was suppressed.’ We have more than pape 
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the action of the Editor of Nature in matters of this kind, whieh 
seems to us by no means creditable. 
aE: a Rovtey has “ante a ns pte? on ‘ The Burmanniacee 
of the “Mal Poiinouls? ic o new species are described— 
Pucca gracilis and Thismia Santi. 
E have received the first number of the new issue of the New 
use in %: Z. schools, by Mr. G. M. Puiu will shortly be 
published. Mr. Thomson contributes to this number of the 
Journal of Science a very interesting paper on “‘ The Humble-bee in 
Rae napa from which we hope to make some extracts. 
Tue part of the Annals of Botany, promised early last year, 
dated Pobrairy last, and issued late in March, contains the 
e ; 
We never described Ranunculus acris as ‘A Perthshire Orchid” ; 
Mr. Briggs did not write on most of the subjects attributed to him; 
ved did we speak of « Potamogeton Tizii” ; while ‘* Plantago mari- 
ma, L. faienae pumila Kjellmanz” is likely to prove even more of a 
ears than Vidal’s work on the “ ss dni seo Kuringiane. 
The wei frag do well to discontinue this singularly ill-edited 
portion of their work. 
gE learn ee the Daily Gleaner, of Kingston, gaara that 
the initiation of the Jamaica Exhibition of this year is due to our 
former colleague, Mr. William Fawcett, who ‘will ever be remem- 
the Exhibition a handy Index to the Economie Produets of the 
Vegetable Kingdom in Jamaica, which should be very useful to 
those for whom it is intended. 
We are glad to learn from Dr. Trimen’s Report for Bis! fined the — 
Ceylon Botanie Gardens that he has made “ solid pr 
euummones of a book which shall not only give a systematic ba 
