27 MARCH 1886, Page 3

A correspondent complains that we last week described Kew Gardens

as the most expensive of the London institutions pro- vided for by Parliamentary vote. That was not our intention, though we see the sentence will bear that reading. We meant to exclude the establishments previously named. The cost of Kew Gardens is under £21,000 a year, and, of course, bears no comparison with that of the British Museum, which is £170,000, or even of the National Gallery, which is cheaply managed, but occasionally expniie great sums.