302 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. 



We doubt if contributors 'will be satisfied with this explanation for 

 the introduction of errors into their papers, which destroy their sense 

 and meaning ; thus in one paper, the Himmaleh are made to run in 

 a north-east and south-west direction, instead of north-west and 

 south-east; and Avicula socialis, and Ammonites nodosus, are converted 

 into four genera instead of two, as follows ; Avicula, Socialis, Ammo- 

 nites, Nodasus. We have also two other new genera unexplained, 

 viz. Encrinilis and Moniliformis. The curious thing is, that the Epidemic 

 should have confined its ravages to the typography of those sentences 

 which required some degree of intelligence in scientific nomenclature to 

 perceive ; while the printer's part is executed with the usual care, 

 accuracy and good taste for which the press from which the Journal 

 issues is remarkable. We do not think it below the dignity of 

 scientific persons when a thing comes before them, be it what it 

 may, to confess freely and unaffectedly that they do not under- 

 stand it, should that really happen to be the case. On the contrary, 

 such candour is absolutely necessary on the part of every scienti- 

 fic inquirer; so much so, that, whoever is without it, is unworthy of 

 credit as a scientific observer, because we cannot be answerable for 

 the lengths to which our moral weakness may carry us, either in 

 suppressing the truth, or in the statement of facts that may be in any 

 wajr opposed to our own views. 



Indian Hand Book of Gardening, containing directions for the 

 management of the Kitchen and Flower Garden in India. By 

 G. T. Frederic Speede. Bishop's College Press. Ostell & Co., 

 Calcutta. June, 1840. pp. 284. 



Any attempt to render the improved practice of useful arts better 

 understood in India, deserves commendation ; and although the Kitchen 

 and Flower Garden are luxuries of far less interest in the East than 

 elsewhere, still their improved culture might lead to more important 

 improvements. 



We require however to be much better acquainted than we are 

 at present with peculiarities of soil and climate, as well as the nature 

 of cultivated plants, together with such as might be cultivated with 

 advantage in various parts of India, before we can hope for much good 

 from any general rules for Gardening. Mr. Speede's little book is de- 

 dicated to the Superintendent of the H. C. Botanic Garden for that 

 zeal " which, while effectively employed in the higher walks of Botanic 

 " Science, could condescend to consult the good of society by afford- 



