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tion in the Royal Botanic Garden. All the resources of the 
Royal Botanic Garden are available to the students of botany in 
the University. Copies of the Circular may be obtained from 
the Bureau of Education, Department of the Interior, Washing- 
orn; HD) AE 
The establishment of a new Jardin des Plantes is proposed for 
France in the park of Versailles between the Trianon (villas of 
Louis XIV and XV) and the Forest of Marly. The new garden 
of about fifteen hundred acres will be, to a large extent, supple- 
mental to the old Jardin des Plantes in Paris, the further expan- 
sion of which has been shut off by the growth of the city. 
Dr. Kingo Miyabe, Professor of Botany at the Hokkaido Im- 
perial University, Sapporo, Japan, visited the Botanic Garden on 
July 7 and 12, 1919. Mr. Miyabe was one of the first Japanese 
students to come to this country for advanced work in botany, 
and was a pupil of the late Professor Farlow, of Harvard Uni- 
versity. He has been president of the Hokkaido Natural His- 
tory Society since its establishment several years ago. 
Prof. R. H. Compton, M.A., of the University of Cape Town, 
South Africa, has been appointed director of the National Bo- 
tanic Gardens at Kirstenbosch, as successor to the late Dr. H. H. 
W. Pearson, who died in November, 1916. 
We learn from Nature, through Science, that Mr. Lawrence 
Philipps has offered University College, Aberystwyth, the sum of 
£10,000 to found a plant-breeding institute for Wales in connec- 
tion with the agricultural department of the college. He has 
guaranteed a further sum of £1,000 per annum for ten years 
towards the maintenance of the institution. The governors of 
the college have appointed Mr. R. G. Stapleton, who was for 
some years connected with the college as advisory botanist, to a 
chair of agricultural botany and to the directorship of the new 
institution. 
At the annual meeting of the School Garden Association of 
New York, in May, 1919, the director of the Brooklyn Botanic 
Garden was elected one of the vice-presidents of the Association 
for the ensuing year. 
