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WE are glad to see in the recently published number of the Journal of the Linnean Society Mr. Bentham's important paper on the Gramineœ, giving the critical results of his examination of the leading groups and genera of that important family. Having been read so recently as November 3, 1881, it has been printed and issued to the Fellows with commendable rapidity. We understand that our distinguished English botanist is, notwithstanding his recent severe domestic affliction and his advanced age, in excellent health, and that he is daily engaged in the Herbarium of the Royal Gardens, Kew, in the continued pre. paration of the Genera Plantarum—the monumental work on the genera of all known flowering plants, of which the first instalment was published in 1862. Sir Joseph Hooker and Mr. Bentham have been occupied with its elaboration for the last quarter of a century, and it will be with feelings of no small satisfaction that all students of systematic botany will learn that the printing of the third and concluding volume will shortly be commenced.
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Notes . Nature 25, 229–231 (1882). https://doi.org/10.1038/025229a0
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