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Allahabad, comprises 2 quarto volumes of text and 1033 un- 
coloured plates. The latter are mostly copied from the well- 
known but often rare and not easily accessible works of Roxburgh, 
Wallich, Wight, Griffith, Brandis and others. - From the same 
source has been received a Report on an inquiry into the Silk 
Industry in India, 1916, by H. Maxwell-Lefroy and E. C. 
Ansorge, in 3 thin folio volumes, and the third part of the lora 
of the Presidency of Madras by J. S. Gamble, a copy of which 
has also been presented by the author. 
Prof. F. O. Bower has sent a complete set in 7 parts of his 
Studies in the Phylogeny of the Filicales, which appeared in the 
Annals of Botany, 1910-18. Two copies of Prof. Bower's excel- 
lent little work on Sir J. D. Hooker, published by the 8.P.C.K., 
ave been received from the publishers, 
The Trustees of the Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Honolulu, 
have published a handsome volume on the Lobelioideae of the 
Hawaiian Islands, by J. F. C. Rock, and have kindly presented 
a copy to the library. 
Mr. J. H. Maiden has*issued during the year parts 36 to 38 
of his Critical Revision of the Genus Muedipitee and Kew is 
indebted to him for these as well as for the parts received in 
previous years. 
In 1889 Dr. L. H. Bailey commenced a series of volumes 
entitled Annals of Horticulture in North America, of which five 
volumes have been published, covering the years 1889 to 1893. 
Only one—that for 1890—was at Kew till a few weeks ago, when 
Dr. Bailey sent the volumes for 1889, 1892 and 1893. The 1891 
volume, still wanting, has been out of print for a long time. 
A copy of Bush Fruits, by F. W. Card, has also been presented 
by Dr. Bailey. 
Among the larger works received as presentations from their 
authors should be mentioned the following :—-Les Astérinées, by 
G. Arnaud; Etude anatomique de la famille des Ternstroemta- 
cées, by L. Beauvisage; Science and Fruit Growing, by the Dukes 
of Bedford and S. Pickering; El Jardin Botanico del Instituto de 
Segunda Enseranza de la Habana, by F. G. Caiizares; The 
“Marine Biological Station at Port Erin, by W. A. Herdman; 
Etude . . . des Chlaenacées, by F. Gérard; A Monograph 
of the Norwegian Physciaceae, by B. Lynge; Nature and uses of 
Madras Timbers, by A. W. Lushington ; The Origin and Develop- 
ment of the Compositae, a reprint of a series of articles in the 
ll. 
Mississippi, Alabama and Georgia, by E. W. Berry, from the 
Secretary, Ministry of Agriculture and Fisheries; Detazls of speci- 
mens of Rhododendrons found by Mr. G. Forrest in 1917 and 
1918, from Mr. J. C. Williams; Antonio Jatta, 1853-1912, from 
Mr. Mauro Jatta; The Essentials of American Timber Law, 
J. P. Kinney, and Indentification of the Economie Woods of the 
United States, by S. T. Record, from Messrs. Chap ‘ 
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