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1635. Anonymous. Presentation of the Capt. Scott memorial medal to Dr. I. B. Pole 

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 on the scientific training and work of Illtyd Buller Pole Evans, with special reference to his 

 services in organizing phytopathological work in the Transvaal, and a list of his publications. 

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1636. Anonymous. Reginald J. Farrer. Nature 106: 413-414. 1920.— Life and work 

 of Reginald John Farrer (1880-1920), collector and cultivator of alpine plants, as well as 

 author of books of fiction and on rock gardens. He received the Gill memorial medal of the 

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1639. Anonymous. [Sir Edmund Loder.] Bull. Soc. Nat. Acclim. France 67: 97-99. 

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1640. Anonymous. T. A. Dorrien-Smith. Roy. Bot. Gard. Kew Bull. Misc. Inform. 

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1644. Ardouin-Dumazet. Les pechers de Montreuil I-II. [Peach cultvtre at Montreuil.j 

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1646. B[aker], J, G, Matthew B. Slater. Jour. Botany 56: 191, 1918.— Mr. Slater 

 (1830-1918) communicated a number of localities to Mr. J. F. Robinson for his Flora of the 

 East Riding, and as the executor of Richard Spruce placed all the papers relating to Spruce's 

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 Notes of a Botanist on the Amazon and Andes. — Neil E. Stevens. 



