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Miscellaneous Motet. 
simple enough and practical enough ; the only criticism that suggests 
itself is that it would only be practicable (at least in its entirety) in 
a large and well-endowed University. That is no doubt true. Real 
scientific education is expensive, very expensive—it is no use shut¬ 
ting our eyes to the fact ; and it must be centralised to be efficient. 
But it is at least well to have an understanding as to what is desirable, 
and as to the direction in which our Universities, old and new, 
should aim. 
MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
The “ Botanisches Centralblatt.” 
HE “Centralblatt” has now completed its first year of 
publication under the auspices of the “Association Inter¬ 
nationale des Botanistes,” and it may not be out of place to offer 
a few criticisms on the two half-yearly volumes published under 
the new regime. 
The attempt to notice practically all botanical publications 
would be most praiseworthy if it were at all possible to carry out, 
but at present it results in a considerable amount of space being 
devoted to records (with perhaps a line of description to each) of a 
large number of small papers or notes of very limited interest, 
while notice of more important work has been in some cases 
neglected, or at any rate seriously delayed. Then again the lengths 
of the different notices are by no means proportional in all cases to 
the relative importance (or even to the relative length) of the works 
reviewed. These defects are of course due to the different con¬ 
ceptions of their duties entertained by the various special editors. 
While some endeavour to include all published matter relating in 
any way to their department of Botany, others clearly confine 
themselves within much narrower limits. It would be better if 
rules could be laid down which would secure more uniformity of 
treatment. 
These remarks are by no means made in any hostile spirit. The 
enormous difficulties which the general editor must experience in 
dealing with the reviews sent in by sub-editors from many different 
