338 JOUENAL OF THE ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY. 
NOTE ON THE LIBRARY. 
The enlargement and perfecting of the Library have long been matters of great 
solicitude to the Council. Year after year they have invited Fellows to present books, 
with the result that since January 7, 1887, about 750 volumes have by this means 
been added to the Library. The Council have themselves from time to time pur- 
chased expensive books and made frequent grants of money for binding and other 
necessary purposes, and the Lindley Library Trustees have devoted all the small 
fund at their disposal annually to the same oliject. 
Thus, together with the steady onward progress of the Society itself since the 
beginning of 1889, the Library also has progressed, and has been enormously 
improved. It consists now of about 4,000 volumes, and is certainly one of, if not 
the best horticultural library in the kingdom. 
A c italogue, which can be obtained from the Society, office 11 Victoria Street, S.W., 
price 2s. GcZ., has recently been published, so that everyone can now inform himself of 
what books the Library consists. 
Great, however, as the improvements of recent years have been, it is still felt that 
there are multitudes of Fellows who might be prevailed upon either — 
(a) To at once present books that are still absent from the shelves ; or 
(6) Leave to the Society by will any books in their library on horticultural 
or botanical subjects ; or 
(c) Leave to the Lindley Library Trustees a small legacy to help to augment 
the very small funds which they at present have to administer. 
At the annual meeting of the Society in 1899 Mr. J. G. Elwes, F.R.S., in congratu- 
lating the Society on the issue of the Library Catalogue, expressed the opinion that 
many Fellows would be only too glad to help in the excellent work of improving the 
Library if only its existence and value were brought home to them, and himself 
offered to set the example. 
Good words were followed by good deeds. Mr. Elwes procured a copy of the 
Catalogue, and, after comparing it with his own list of books, most kindly sent the 
following memorandum to the Council : — 
" I enclose a list of botanical and horticultural books which I have that are 
not apparently in the Library of the Society, and which, according to promise, I 
present and bequeath to the Trustees of the Lindley Library. 
" Those marked with a * are books which I am likely to want for my own 
use at present, but which will revert to the Trustees at my death if not sent 
before. But those unmarked I am sending now addressed to the office. 
" As I stated at the meeting, I think that there are other members of the 
Society who would do the same if it were properly put before them, and this 
would tend to keep the Library more up to date than it can be at present. 
" J. G. ELWES." 
List of Books Referred to in the Opening Sentence of Mr. Elwes's Letter. 
Regel, " Conspectus specierum generis Vitis regiones America? borealis. Chinas 
borealis," &c. Petropolis, 1873. P. 
Regel, "Flora der Gebiete des Russischen Reichs ostlich vom Altai," &c. Bd. I. 
Heft 2. 
Regel, " Alliorum adhuc cognitorum Monographia." Petropolis, 1875. 
* Regel, " Primulaceae and LiliaceiX' of Turkestan " (^part of " Fedtchenko's Reise "). 
Hooker and Thompson, "Introductory Essay to the Flora Indica." 
Rattray and Mill, " Forestry and Forest Products." 
Donn, J., " Hortus Cantabridgiensis." 
Mongredien, A.. " Trees and Shrubs for English Plantations." 
" List of Medicinal and Poisonous Plants cultivated in the Royal Botanic Garden of 
Edinburgh," 1859. 
" Transactions of the Wisconsin State Agricultural Society," 1860. 
Koch, Karl, " Dendrologie." Stuttgart, 1875. 
Watson, H. C, " Supplement to Cybele Britannica," 1860. 
Pratt, Anne, " British Grasses and Sedges." 
Mathews, W., "Flora of Algeria." 
* Baker, J. G., " A Synopsis of the known Species of Iiis " (newspaper cuttings) < 
