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THE HONG KONG NATURALIST.
Four issues of the Hong Kong Naturalist will appear during the year,
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BOOK REVIEW.
International Address Book of Botanists: being a Directory of in- dividuals and scientific institutions, universities, etc., in all parts of the world interested in the study of Botany. Prepared in accordance with a resolution passed at the Fifth International Botanical Congress, Cambridge, 1930. Published for the Bentham Trustees by Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 7 and 8 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London. Price, twelve shillings and sixpence, (postage one shilling extra).
The committee appointed to arrange for the publication of this book consisted of Professor L. Diels, Director of the Berlin Botanical Gardens; Dr. E. D. Merrill, Director of the New York Botanical Garden; and Dr. T. F. Chipp, Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew. Prior to the publication of this Address Book, Dr. T. F. Chipp died suddenly. Dr. T. F. Chipp gave the editor of the Hong Kong Naturalist much valu- able advice and it is of interest to record that in the last letter received by the writer written shortly before Dr. Chipp's death, Dr. Chipp made a suggestion regarding the Climatological Data recorded in the Naturalist which advice was immediately acted upon. We add our expression of deep regret at the death of Dr. T. F. Chipp to those that have been recorded by botanists throughout the world.
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In this 600 page book no less than 11,000 names of botanists are included. Hong Kong is credited with 2 botanists but even so it beats Crete and Eritrea, Nicaragua and North Borneo, and a few other places which boast of but one each. The Union of Socialistic Soviet Republics has nearly a thousand professing botanists, about the same number as Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The United States of America possess about 3,300, or roughly one botanist to every 40,000 laymen, a proportion which is about 10 times greater than that of Hong Kong.
Every Institute and University throughout the world, where botany is taught and studied, should possess a copy of this book.
G. A. C. H.
May 1932.
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