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Winit Wanadorn has collected in the Rajburi District of Siam, 
and his specimens have been received through Mr. W. F. Lloyd, 
Conservator of Forests. Mr. J. H. Maiden has sent various 
Australian plants, including new species described by him. 
Mr. J. M. Black has presented specimens of some of the new: 
species published by him in the 7 ransactions of the Royal Society 
E ogers has given Austraiian 
Director of Forests, Sudan. Mr. J. D. 
the highlands of British Hast Africa and presented his collections 
to Kew, while other parts of that region have been visited by 
members of the Forestry Department. Uganda Fungi have 
been contributed by Mr. T. D. Maitland and Mr. R. A. Dummer. 
Dr. I. B. Pole-Evans, Chief, Division of Botany, Pretoria, has 
continued to contribute Transvaal plants, and valuable specimens 
have been received from the Bolus Herbarium. 
The North American collections have been augmented, 
L. 
Dr L. Britton, Director-in-Chief, New York Botanical 
Garden, has continued to send valuable instalments of West 
Indian plants collected by him, Mr and others, as 
Pennell and Dr. H. H. Rusby. 
made several expeditions in the last named country and for- 
warded his specimens to 
The collection of illustrations consists largely of representa- 
tions of portions of plants and their details, but is deficient in 
pictures showing the habits of trees and shrubs: this has been 
partly remedied by a donation of photographs of West Indian 
and East African trees from Dr. Andrew Balfour, C.M.G., 
Director-in-Chief of the Wellcome Bureau of Scientific Research, 
and of similar photographs of trees from the Malay Peninsula 
and Ceylon by Mr. H. N. Ridley, C.M.G. : 
A collection of photographs showing the appearance of im- 
portant plant diseases in the tropics is in course of formation, 
and contributions have been received from Mr. L. Lewton-Brain, 
Director of Agriculture, Federated Malay States; Dr. I. B. Pole- 
Evans, Pretoria; and Sir Francis Watts, K.C.M.G., Com- 
missioner of Agriculture, Barbados, on behalf of Mr. W. Nowell. 
Effect of removing the Pulp from Camphor Seed on Germina- 
tion and the Subsequent Growth of the Seedlings.—A reprint 
‘of a paper by Mr. G. A. Russell, of great importance to those 
engaged in the camphor industry, which a peared in the United 
‘States Journal of Agricultural Research, Vol. xvii, No. 5, has 
been issued from the Government Printing Office, Washington. 
