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misprint for rj inches. It is highly important that records of this kind 
should be correct. Taking the measurement from tip to tip of the petals 
we find the illustration five-eighths of an inch too broad, and yet it professes 
to be “ true size.” 
I do not suppose for one moment that the inaccuracy was intentional, 
and probably the Editor will feel as annoyed as I do when he finds it out, but 
it is none the less unfortunate on that account. I have myself been taken in 
by such figures, as may be seen by my remarks respecting O. crispum 
apiatum in an earlier volume of the Review (ii. pp. 99, 205, 298), and my 
present remarks are made solely in the interests of accuracy in such matters, 
and here I leave them for the present. 
ARGUS. 
NOTICE OF BOOK. 
The Orchids of the Sikkim Himalaya. By Sir George King, K.C.S.L., 
and Robert Pantling. Large 4to., pp. 342, tt. 448. Calcutta: Printed at 
the Bengal Secretariat Press. 
This fine work, which forms volume 8 of the Annals of the Royal Botanic 
Garden, Calcutta, has just appeared, and contains a nearly complete 
account of the Orchids at present known from Sikkim, with a figure of 
each, the only exceptions being some half-dozen species of which specimens 
could not be obtained for figuring, part of which are either doubtfully 
native or have now disappeared. 
The origin of the work is thus stated by Sir George King :—‘‘ For many 
years Mr. Pantling had occupied his leisure by making drawings of the 
Orchids found on the Government Cinchona Plantation in Sikkim, where 
he has lived since 1882. The appearance of the parts of the Flora of 
British India, containing Sir Joseph Hooker’s account of the family, gave 
an impetus to Mr. Pantling’s studies; and when he showed his drawings to 
me, I most strongly urged him to continue the series until it should include 
one of each species found in the Cinchona Plantation and its immediate 
neighbourhood. The preparation of these drawings gradually worked itself 
into a project for the preparation of a complete Orchid Flora of the Sikkim- 
Himalaya, each species to be illustrated by a life-size figure of the plant, 
accompanied by analyses of the parts of the flower on an enlarged scale. 
The liberality of the Government of Bengal made it possible to publish the 
projected work in the Annals of the Calcutta Garden, and it now takes form 
in the present volume, which is the joint production of Mr. Pantling and 
myself. The drawings from which the figures were lithographed were 
entirely the work of Mr. Pantling, my share in the production of these plates 
—_ been confined to the supervision of the lithographers who put 
