221 
post he held until November, 1903, when he was appointed 
Assistant to the Director of Agriculture, British East Africa 
(A.B., 1903, p. 31). He was promoted to the post of Chief of the 
Kconomic Plants Division in. April, 1907. r. Powell sent 
numerous dried plants from St. Vincent to the Herbarium, and 
during his long service in British East Africa he contributed 
several collections to the establishment, including a new species 
of Boscia (B. Powellii, Sprague & M. L. Green) 
described in the Kew Bulletin, 1913, 178. The Library is in- 
debted to him fora set of 4 volumes of The Last Africa Quarterly, 
1904-07. 
The Old Linnean Garden at Upsala.—The new Swedish 
Linnean Society, as a most important aim for its efforts, has 
decided to restore Linnaeus’ botanical garden. This little place, 
the pride of Linnaeus and famous at his time, was abandoned on 
the establishment of the new garden more than a hundred years 
ago, and was allowed to fall into decay. The conservatories were 
later used as an archeological museum and Linnaeus’ house was 
occupied by the Director of Music at the University. 
The garden is now being restored to the original plan, and will 
_ be planted only with species grown there by Linnaeus himself. 
of him which will be supplementary to his country house at 
Hammarby, familiar to several British botanists. Fortunately 
his personal belongings have remained in the hands of his few 
descendants, and it has been possible for the Society to acquire 
a rich collection, including furniture, porcelain, clothes, etc., so 
that it is hoped that the old house, which has been left practically 
untouched, will give a good idea of the surroundings in which 
he lived and worked. Upsala will no longer be in want of a 
memorial worthy of its greatest son. 
The necessary funds are being collected among members of the 
Society. Dr. R. Sernander and Dr. O. Juel, Professors of Botany, 
have taken great pains to find out all the details of the old garden 
and of its contents. The place is now in charge of Professor N. 
Svedelius. ; 
The General Secretary of the Linnean Society of London has 
undertaken to forward io Sweden any contributions towards the 
restoration of the garden that may be made by British botanists. 
C. SKOTTSBERG. 
Amphichromy in heather.—An interesting plant of Calluna 
vulgaris showing purple- and white-flowered inflorescences on the 
same stock was received last year from Mr. Dyson Perrins, Ardross 
Castle, by Alness, N.B., who found it on a grouse *“moor’”’ 1 
neighbourhood. In the same plant some of the inflorescences have 
flowers of the normal purple (or more correctly pale magenta) 
