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From Dr. Otto Stapf have been received 15 issues of the 
Jahresbericht der Gesellschaft zur Férderung der naturhistorischen. 
Erforschung des Orients in Wien. 
Prof. Hans Schinz has continued to send the Mitteilungen 
aus dem Botanischen Museum der Universitat Ziirich of which 
nos, 82, 83, 85-88 have been received. He has also presented 
the second part of the Botany, edited by himself and Mr. A. 
SES waa of the work on New Caledonia by F. Sarasin and 
J. Rou 
Coetebations too numerous to specify here have been 
received from several institutions besides those already mentioned, 
the more important being :—the Smithsonian Institution, the 
United States Department of Agriculture, the Gray Herbarium 
and Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University, the Osborn 
Botanical Laboratory of Yale University, the Cornell University 
Agricultural Experiment Station, the Agricultura! Research 
Institute, Pusa, the Ministry of Agriculture, Egypt, the Depart- 
ments of Agriculture of Buitenzorg, New Zealand, and the Union 
of South Africa, the College of Science of the Imperial University 
of Tokyo, the Botanical Library of the University of Copen- 
hagen, the Landbouwhoogeschool, Wageningen, and the Station 
of Vegetable Pathology, Paris. The Bureau of Forestry, Govern- 
ment of Formosa, has sent the ninth volume of the Icones 
Plantarum Formosanarum, by B. Hayata; and the New Zealand 
Institute, vols. 48, 49 and 50 of its Transactions, as well as two 
parts of the Bulletin on Mosses, by H. N. Dixon. The Crown 
Agents for the Colonies have presented the second edition of 
the Handbook of Uganda, by H. R. Wallis; and from the South 
African Biological Society have been received two numbers of 
its Bulletin and two numbers of The South African Journal of 
Natural History. 
Mr. Oakes Ames is continuing his Studies in the Family 
Orchidaceae, and just recently has presented a copy of the sixth 
fascicle; also a separate set of the illustrations in it for the 
Kew collection of drawings. A further valuable addition to 
this collection, made by Dr. J. J. Smith, is a set of nearly 200 of 
his published plates, chiefly of Orchidaceae. Dr. Smith has 
also presented 12 of his papers. 
From the publishers have been received The Nature-study of 
Plants, by T. A. Dymes (S8.P.C.K.), and The Centenary Volume 
of Charles Griffin and Company, Ltd. 
A small duodecimo, entitled: @uvres du Marquis de Villette, 
which was published in London in 1786, has been presented by 
Mr. G. H. Wollaston. The interest attaching to this volume, 
as far as Kew is concerned, is due to the fact that the paper 
used for it was made from the bark of the lime-tree, and that, 
bound in at the end, are 21 leaves made from the wood or bark 
of other plants, the French names of which are printed on the 
leaves themselves. Among the plants represented in this way 
are the mallow (probably Althaea officinalis), hop, nettle, comers 
oak, poplar, hazel, spindle-tree, dog’s-tooth grass, common 
