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Fresentations to the Library during 1920.—The Bentham 
Trustees have presented 16 herbals published between the years 
1529 and 1744. These include the first edition (1557) of Adam 
Lonicer’s Kreuterbuch, in which several of the figures have been 
crudely coloured, and the edition of 1578; an excellent copy of 
Dioscorides, De Materia Medica libri v., 1529-30, with Greek 
and Latin text in parallel cclumns, the edition published at 
Salamanca in 1586 “traduzido . . . en la vulgar Castel- 
lana,” and the octavo Spanish edition, translated by Juan Jarava, 
and published at Antwerp in 1557; Mattioli, Discorsi ne’ set 
libri di P. Dioscoride della materia medicinale, Venice, 1744, and 
the French edition of Mattioli’s Commentaries, dated 1566; a 
good copy of the apparently rare edition cf Dodoens’ Cruydt- 
Boeck, printed at Leyden in 1618 by F. van Ravelingen; 
Malpighi’s Opera posthuma, 1697; Poppe’s Krduterbuch, 1625; 
Brasavola, Examen omnium simplicium medicamentorum, quorum. 
in officinis usus est, 1539; La Brosse, De la nature, vertu, et _ 
utilité des plantes, 1628; Rhagor, Hrneuerter P flantz-Garten, 1669 ; 
and Durante, Herbario novo, 1667. 
From the Trustees of the British Museum have been received 
the fourth volume of Fawcett and Rendle’s Flora of Jamaica ; 
' Birds Beneficial to Agriculture, by F. W. Frohawk; and Marine 
a Animals Injurious to Submerged Structures, by W. 
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The Director-in-Chief of the New York Botanical Garden, 
Dr. Britton, has completed the Kew set of the Contributions 
from the New York Botanical Garden, and has sent the continuation 
of the North American Flora; he has also presented the second 
volume of the splendid work by him and Dr. J. N. Rose on the 
Cactaceae, and a copy of The Bahama Flora, by him and Dr. C. 
F. Millspaugh. 
Mr. J. H. Maiden has presented, in addition to several of his 
pamphlets, parts 39-43 of his monumental work on Eucalyptus 
Parts 63 and 64 of his Forest Flora of New South Wales have 
been received from the Secretary for Agriculture. 
Numerous presentations have been made by Lieut.-Col. Sir 
David Prain, including :—-T’ravaux du Laboratoire de Matiére 
Médicale de T Ecole Supérieure de Pharmacie de Paris, Tome xi; 
36 papers on Papaveraceae, by F. Fedde; National Antarctic 
Expedition, 1901-1904: Album of Photographs, é&c., published 
by the Royal Society; Contribution a VU étude anatomique de la 
famille des Ternstroemiacées, by L. Beauvisage; Frost und Licht 
ee heein flussende Krafte bei der Samenkeimung (Supplement 2), 
zel; and recent issues of the Berichte der Deutschen 
Botohseclian Gesellschaft and of the Bulletin de la Société Botamque 
de France. 
Capt. A. W. Hill has presented a copy of The English Rock 
Garden, by the late Reginald Farrer; the first part of The 
Flowering Plants of South Africa; edited by I. B. Pole ae: 
and several pamphlets. 
