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ARTICLES IN JOURNALS. 517 " Kew — Royal Gardens," with a cross-reference under "Jackson"; whereas Mr. Hemsley's Catalogue of the North Gallery appears only under his name, and is not mentioned under Kew ; this is the more remarkable, as to the fourth edition of that work no author's name is attached. * Brown (Robert), of the British Museum," and "Brown (Robert), of Campster," recalls the distinction made by the profane between " Morris of Parnassus " and "Morris of Pen-bryn " ; surely the " botanicorum princeps " needed no local distinction? This Journal, with its somewhat confusing list of editors, is correctly entered ; but vol. 14 is stated to be in 4to. The oddest entry, whether as to subject, author, or mode of printing, is one which we reproduce textually : — " Henry VIII., King of England. Assertio Septem Sacramentorum Aduersus Mart Lutheram-Henrico VIII., Angliae Rege auctore : accedit Johan Rossen contra Lutheri captivitatem Babylonicam. 12ino. Parislis, 1562." The " reader " might, we think, have attended to the distribu- tion of capitals, which is far from uniform ; here are three neigh- bouring entries from p. 301 : — " The origin of Floral structures." " The making of Flowers." " The Origin of Plant Structures." But the Catalogue is a valuable addition to the Society's publications, and will be welcomed by the Fellows as a guide to the important library of which they are collectively the owners. We cannot, however, help expressing some surprise that a charge should be made upon them for the work, especially as that charge cannot possibly defray the expense of production. If we are not greatly mistaken, it was originally determined to supply the Catalogue to Fellows in the same way as the other publications of the Society ; and the alteration of this determination was caused by the waste of money involved in the printing of the Catalogue of Periodicals to which reference has already been made. No one will grudge 5s. for so handsome a book as this, but those concerned have a right to complain of the spending of the Linnean Society's funds upon a work, the uselessness of which was only dis- covered when it had been printed off and to some limited extent actually issued. There is a Library Committee of the Linnean Society, but apparently the supervision of the Library Catalogue does not come within its duties : had it done so, a large and useless expenditure in printing might have been avoided. nj Jni>! ARTICLE8-~'jUroJ0 URNALS. Bot. Centralblatt (Nos. 44-7). — H. Rothdauscher, * Ueber die anatomischen Verhaltnisse von Blatt und Axe der Phyllantheen.' — (No. 46). C. Mez, * Der heutige Stand der bakteriologischen Systematik.' — (No. 47). W. Futterer, * Zur Anatomic und Entwioklungsgeschichte der Zingiberaceae.' — H. P. Jonkman, • Ueber einen Keimungs Apparat.'