15 AUGUST 1914, Page 18

ELMS.

[To THE EDITOR or THE "SPECTATOR."]

STR,—In the review of Moss's Cambridge British Flora your reviewer says (p. 205) " The present volume treats of numerous

trees ; among them the neglected forms of elm are for the first time scientifically dealt with." I cannot believe that a person competent to review such a book as this can be ignorant of the Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, in the seventh volume of which, published more than a year ago, Professor Henry and I devoted more than eighty quarto pages and nineteen plates to this hitherto neglected genus. The Spectator so seldom reviews works of this class that we are curious to [The reviewer apologizes, and would correct the sentence to "almost the first time."—En. Spectator.]