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ONLY five years have elapsed since the publication of Supplement 8 to the “Index Kewensis” and in Supplement 9 botanists are presented with a volume considerably larger than any of its immediate predecessors. Since the first appearance of the “Index” in 1893—made possible by the munificence of Charles Darwin-the publication of each Supplement marks a stage in the progress of systematic botany, and provides the only authoritative list of the names of plants recently described, the author and place of publication of each, together with an indication of the geographical distribution. Of the many important works which emanate from Kew none is so indispensable to botanists in general and to systematists in particular.
Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum
Supplementum 9: Nomina et Synonyma omnium Generum et Specierum ab initio anni 1931 usque ad finem anni 1935 nonnulla etiam antea edita complectens. Ductu et consilio A. W. Hill. Confecerunt Herbarii Horti Regii Botanici Kewensis Curatores. Pp. iii + 305. (Oxford: Clarendon Press; London: Oxford University Press, 1938.) 84s. net.
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M., J. Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum. Nature 143, 316 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/143316c0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/143316c0