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Sourn America.—Presented ; Colombia, by Mr. M. T. Dawe, 
Mrs. I. A, Tracey and Dr. N. L. Britton; Juan Fernandez, by 
Dr. and Mrs. Skottsberg. © 
Purchased : Walter Fischer, Argentine. 
. Edgar Thurston, C.I.E., has presented the Cornish plants, 
collected during 1919 , for incorporation in his Cornish herbarium 
now at Kew. Additional ae and critical British plants have 
been received from Mr. C. E. Salmon, F.L.S. Mr. E. Langley 
has contributed an ae set of Bedfordshire Rubi named 
by the Rev. W. Moyle Rogers. A large collection from Mesopo- 
tamia made by the members of the 05 hs Department of 
Agriculture has been received from Lt.-Col. R. J. D. Graham. 
Mr. N. H. Cowdry has sent a aay st of his Chinese 
‘Lady E. T. Bourne has presented plants collected in Octacamund 
since the presentation by her and Sir A. G. Bourne in 1915 of 
their Indian herbarium. Various critical plants for determina- 
tion have been receiyad from the Nea e College and Institute, 
Dehra Dun, through Mr. 8. H. ard. Mr. R, N. Parker has 
sent several collections made re Bids in the Chamba State. 
Major T. F. Chipp, Assistant Director of the Botanic Gardens, 
Singapore, has forwarded Cryptogamia collected by him in the 
Malay Peninsula. Ccllecting in that region by Mr. 
Foxworthy and others has also been going on actively under the 
auspices of the Director of Museums, Federated Malay. States, 
collections having been made in Pahang, Selangor and Negri 
Sembilan. In Siam, Dr. A. F. G. Kerr, after being on active 
military service in Europe, has resumed collecting in the district 
of Bangkok. Mr. E. D. Merrill has sent a large collection of 
Philippine plants, including 975 fungi, also 1,062 specimens of 
plants recorded in his “ Species Blancoanae,” published in Manila 
in 1918; he has also presented a collection made on Mt. Kinabalu, 
by Mrs. Clemens, from which locality orchids have been received 
from Mr. Oakes Ames. The Director of the Botanic Garden, 
Buitenzorg, has communicated an interesting collection of 
Javanese plants. Mr. J. H. Maiden, Director of the Botanic 
Garden, Sydney, has presented Australian plants, see! : 
new or critical species of Acacia and Eucalyptus. 
Greenwood has forwarded the collections of flowering Ep and 
mosses made by him in Fiji. Tropical Africa has yielded many 
collections, amongst them being Rhodesian grasses from Mr. F. 
Eyles, plants from the Congo region by Dr. E. De Wildeman 
and those collected by the Rev. J. Roscoe during the Mackie 
Ethnological Expedition. Dr. I. B. Pole-Evans has continued 
to send South African plants, including a collection made by 
De ke Phillips at Bethlehem, in the Orange River Colony. 
Ferns collected in Juan Fernandez by Dr. and Mrs. Skottsberg, 
on which a report was recently published, have been presented 
by the collectors. Mrs. E. G. Britton has continued to send 
interesting mosses from the Herbarium of W. Mitten. 
