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< )ii«l('in;ins mut with this tnii^iis in thu saiiuj situation, ;iimI 

 tlescrihcd it further thus : — " Kjiiph^llous, ocoiij)yiii<j;- the eentre of the 

 groups of sperniogoues wliicli arc found on tlie ujtpei- face of tlie leaf 

 o))po.site to the meidia." In VM^) lie ti-ansfei-nnl it to Ddrlntui, mh 

 well as the similar fuii^i Darluca cont.uht'nuilis (On Uunutjc) 

 1). ammophlla (on A?}wwphila), and JJ. miiauiiiuhiln (on a grass, 

 with Piiccinia). The j)resent S[)eci(\s, on TuHsUaj/o, is interesting, 

 heeause iJnrluca is usually found in the sori of uredosporcs orttdeuto- 

 spores. It is by no means impossible that all the described forms of 

 IJnrluca belong to one and the same fungus, which has found an easy 

 mole of living by acting as a paradte on the parasitic LJredines. 



(To bo continiiod.) 



DR. ANTJIONY UOrilNSON, OF JAMAICA. 



Thkue is in the possession of the Institute of Jamaica a collection 

 of drawings, 455 in all, of Jamaica birds, reptiles, fishes, mammals, 

 and phmts by Dr. Anthony Jtobinson, accompanied by volumes of 

 manuscrij)ts treating (m the natui-al history of Jamaica. Unfortu- 

 nately, the original manuscri])t is missing; all that tluj Institute 

 possesses is a copy made under the direction of Jtobert Long in I7(it), 



That this copy of the manuscript had a che(|uered career is 

 evid(Mit from the fa(;t that in T/u^ TransaGiiona of the Jamaicji 

 HocAcAy of Arts jiublished in 1854, in the Report of the (committee 

 whi<di was preparing exhil)its to be forwarded to the I'ai'is Univei'sai 

 Kxhiljition of 1855, we read : — 



" We cannot take leave of this section of our Museum nundter, 

 without asking what has become of the MSS. and illustrations of 

 animal as well as vegetable products of the island, collected by 

 Dr. Anthony Jiobinson, now a hundrod years ago. On the breaking 

 up of the Jamaica Society, and the distribution of its pillaged and 

 mutilated books in 1850, the MSS. of Anthony Jiobinson were dii-ected 

 to be deposited in the Library of the University of Glasgow, ^i'hey 

 were in the hands of Dr. MacFadyen for transmission thither at the 

 time of his lamented death. Into whose hands have they passed, 

 and why have they not reached their destination P We would gladly 

 avail ourselves of them for a transcript to make the lirst instalment 

 for our Museum." 



MacFad^xni died of cholera in Kingston in 1850; and the MSS. 

 and drawings lay hidden, until tlu.'y came into the [Kjssession (d* the 

 Institute at its foiuuLation in 1879. 



In 1881 , at the request of the ]>oai-d of Governors of the Institute, 

 the late Sir F]dward Newton, K.C'.M.G., for some time Colonial 

 Secretary of the Island, consented to edit, with a view to publication, 

 that part of the manuscripts which related to Ornithology; but the 

 work was not proceeded with. In 1894 Professoi- T. D. A. Cock(irell, 

 who had recently resigned the curatoi'ship of the Museum of the 

 Institute, published in the September numb(;r of The Jitiericta 



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