11 AUGUST 1906, Page 24

Catalogue of the Plants of Kumaon. (Lovell Reeves and Co.

5s. net.)--In 1846-48 Lieutenant (now Sir Richard) Strachey explored the mountain ranges westward of Nepal, and the Tibet lake region of Rakas-Ttil and Mansarowar. In the latter journey he was accompanied by Mr. J. E. Winterbottom. The altitude of the country ranged from a thousand to fifteen thousand feet above sea level. The labours of other naturalists have been utilised, and the whole now appears under the editorial care of Mr. J. F. Duthie, BA., the distinguished botanist who is now "Assistant for India" in the Kew Herbarium.