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of Agriculture, Buitenzorg, the Agricultural and Forestry Depart- 
ments, and the Bureau of Science in the Philippine Islands, the 
Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa, the Division of Botany, 
Department of Agriculture, Union of South Africa, the United 
States Department of Agriculture and the Smithsonian Institution 
have very liberally contributed. The Director of the Arnold 
ae te has presented a copy of A monograph of Azaleas, by 
H. Wilson and A. Rehder, a from the Director of the New 
Yaak Agricultural Experiment Station Sturtevant’s Notes on edible 
plants, edited by Prof. U. P. Hedrick, has been received. 
The Controller of H.M. Stationery Office has supplied the 
library with a set of the Handbooks and Vocabularies compiled 
by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division 
of the Admiralty, comprising 24 volumes; and Miss A. Lorrain 
Smith’s Handbook of the British Lichens has been presented by 
the Trustees of the British Museum. 
Under the direction of Dr. A. Chevalier 3 numbers, presented 
by him to the library, of a new Revue de Botanique appliquée et 
d’ Agriculture coloniale appeared during the year. The library 
is also indebted to Dr. Chevalier for a copy of his Eaploration 
botanique de lV Afrique francaise, tome i. 
A considerable number of original drawings of plants, mostly 
coloured, have been received. Lieut.-Colonel W. G. King has 
presented 10 albums containing 842 paintings of Madras and 
Burmese plants, the work of the late Mrs. King. This collection 
includes representations of many species of Cucurbitaceae, 
showing fruits. Colonel King has also sent to Kew vols. 2 to 6 
of Wight’s Icones Plantarum Indiae orientalis and The Ferns 
of Southern India, by R. H. Beddome. A collection of 72 paintings 
and 8 pencil sketches of South African plants, by the late Mrs. F. G. 
Crossman, mounted in 3 albums, has been received from Captain 
Crossman. Messrs. F. Sander & Sons have presented an album 
of original drawings, chiefly dissections of the flowers of orchids, 
by H. G. Reichenbach, and with MS. lists of plants in cultivation 
at Kew, 1816-50, and other MS. and printed matter, Mr. R. J. A. 
Jackson has presented some original drawings of Banka plants 
by Dr. T. Horsfield. Mr. Jackson’s presentations were formerly 
the property of his father, the late Mr. J. R. Jackson, for many 
years Curator of the Museums, Kew. 
The Executors of the late Mr. R. B. Chapman have presented 
a manuscript index, compiled by Mr. Chapman, to Solereder’s 
Systematic anatomy of the Dicotyledons, translated by L. A. Boodle 
and F. E. Fritsch. 
The following have been received as presentations: Arbejder 
fra den botaniske Have i Kébenhavn, nos. 94-97, from the Botanical 
Botanica Survey of South A aie, Memoir no. 2, from the a 
Mr. R. D. Aitken and Mr. G. W. Gale, also from the Director 
