75 
printed at Strassburg in 1529; Dioscorides’ De Medicinali Materia 
Libri Sex . . . Lyons, 1550; De Historia Stirpium Commentarii 
... by Fuchs, 1551; Les Observations de Plusieurs Singularitez 
.. by Belon Du Mans, 1555; Matthioli’s Senensis Medici Com- 
mentarii . . . Venice, 1565; Dodoens’ Frumentorum Leguminum 
Palustrium et Aquatilium Herbarum ... 1566; De Lobel’s Plan- 
tarum Seu Stirpium Historia ...1576; Stirpium Historiae Pemp- 
tades Sex .. . by Remberti Dodoens, 1583; John Gerarde’s The 
Herball, or Generall Historie of Plantes ... Ist edition, 1597. 
Tobias Aldinus’ Exactissima Descriptio Rariorum Quarundam 
Plantarum... 1625; The Ortus Medicinae .. . by Van Helmont, 
1655; Robert Boyle’s Some Considerations Touching the Useful- 
nesse of Experimental Naturall Philosophy, Ist edition, 1663; 
John Evelyn’s A Philosophical Discourse of the Earth, rst edition, 
1676; Robert Morison’s Hortus Regius Blesensis . . . 1669; Mat- 
thiolis’ Opera Omnia . . . 1674. 
Leeuwenhoek’s Regiae, Quae Londini Est, Societatis Collegae 
Epistolae Physiologicae . . . 1719; Francesco Redi’s Opere . . 
published in Venice, 1742-60; Linné’s Flora Zeylanica .. . Ist 
edition, 1747, his Hortus Upsaliensis . . . 1st edition, 1748, and 
Species Plantarum .. . 1797-1805; Parmentier’s Traité Sur la 
Culture et les Usages des Pommes de Terre, Ist edition, 1789. 
Three titles were added to the Boys’ and Girls’ Club Room 
Collection which now numbers 162 volumes. 
There are approximately 1,502 volumes in the Overflow Col- 
lection, shelved in the lower stackroom. 
Periodicals, Serials, Documents 
The more important titles added to the current file of serials 
and periodicals are, the Journal of the Royal Society of Western 
Australia; various titles issued by the Biologische Reichsanstalt 
fur ene und Forstwirtschaft, Berlin-Dahlem; Biologia Gen- 
eralis; Botanikai Kozlemények ; Bothalia; Papers from the Botany 
School of Cambridge ; Empire Cotton Growing Review ; Schriften, 
Tartu (Dorpat) University, Esthonia; Folio Cryptogamica; Acta 
of the Horti Botanici of the Latviensis Universitatis; The Mu- 
seum, Newark, N. ]., Notth Western Naturalist; Plant Physi- 
ology; Polish Society of Naturalists ““ Kopernik ”; Quarterly Re- 
