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other from Messrs. F. Sander & Co., of St. Albans, both abel m in 
June 1895. The pretty Japanese Prunus was received fro essor 
Sargent, Director of the Arnold Arboretum, Boston, in "1895, and 
flowered at Kew in April of the present year. The flowers app 
before the leaves. The Coriaria, also Japanese, flowered in Canon 
a 
very conspicuous. ee ds sent to Kew by Professor Sargent produced 
plants one of which flowered simultaneously with that in Canon 
Ellacombe’s garden. a pni Evul, native of Siam, closely 
resembles C. insigne. The figure was prepared from a plant which 
was sent to Kew in 1892 3 Messrs. F. Sander & Co. The Iris is a 
new species, imported from Japan. It flowered at Kew in June. 
Journal of Sir Joseph Banks—In the Historical Account of Kew - 
remarked: ** No scientific man of his eminence iere d ever did so 
little personally, or was the inspiring cause of so much being done 
rs.” This is only true in the sense of work actually 
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been little or  wethiug to show for it. fle has not even | received peel 
for the remarkable Journal, now published aíter the lapse of more than 
a century, of Captain Cook's first voyage round the world. It was 
largely, it is true, embodied in Hawkesworth's narrative. But there is 
nothing to show who was responsib!e for any partieular description or 
statement. 
Three years ago Cook’s own Journal was published by Admiral 
Wharton. That of Banks is at length, after the singular series of 
accidents described by the editor, given to the world. It cannot be 
doubted that it places Banks’s scientific reputation in an entirely new 
position. In ardour, judgment, energy, keenness of observation, and 
indefatigable scientific interest we see that he takes his place in the ve 
front rank of scientific explorers. But the fact remains that his labours 
yielded no tangible result at his own hands, and till the present publiea- 
iion cf his Journal, the world may be said to have remained ignorant of 
their extent. The vast series of figures on copper-plates of the plants 
collected whieh Banks had prepared at his own cost remains unutilized 
at the British Museum. It might have been thought that the trustees 
made these available to science if only as a memorial to their author. 
Nothing could be more appropriate than that the task of editing the 
Journal should have fallen into the hands of Sir Joseph Hooker. He 
followed Banks in the investigation of the flora of the extreme south of 
America and of New Zealand, and was actually the first to publish many 
of the plants first collected by him and his botanist, Dr. Solander, both in 
his Flora Antarctica and his Flora Nove Z ven And he also ulti- 
mately followed him in the scientific direction of 
Nothing is more remarkable about the book, disinterred as it is from a 
long oblivion, € itsfreshness. It depicts the countries of the oe 
hemisphere as they first revealed themselves to northern navigators and 
records with vivid accuracy AREETA of savage life which are for the 
most part passed away for eve 
