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edited by P. F. Fyson, 



rroui Sir Frank Crisp, 13art.^ the library lias received a copy of 

 W. J. Bean's Trees and Shriihs hardy in the British Isles^ a work 

 in two volumes which will undoubtedly be regarded for many 

 years to come as the standard treatise on hardy ligneous plants; 

 also Orchidacees de Madagascar^ by R. Schlechter. The latter has 



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Z^^ serie* vol. i. 



The Eev. Canon Ellacombe has presented an excellent copy of 

 Caspar Bauhin's Theatri Botanici Liber Primus^ Basileae, 1658, 

 differing from that previously at Kew in possessing various 

 indexes at the end of the volume and in being deficient in the por- 

 trait of C- Bauliin w^hicli is sometimes found on the reverse of the 

 half-title page. 



A good copy of The New Flora Britannicaf which 



sometimes provided with the title The New Botanic Garden^ a 

 work in two volumes, consisting of 60 coloured plates of culti- 

 vated plants by Sydenham Edwards^ with descriptive test, has^ 

 also been received from him. 



A copy of Die oherschlesiscTie Steinkohlen flora y Teil 1, by W* 

 Gothan, and about 80 pamphlets on palaeobotany, by various 

 authors^ have been received from Mr, Clement Reid. 



The fourth part of Plantae Wilsonianae^ edited by C. S. 

 Sargent ; the first volume of the Catalogue of the fine library of the 

 Arnold Arboretum; and The Genus Piniis^ by G- Russell Shaw, 

 have been presented by the Director of the Arnold Arboretum. 



The Director of the Department of Agriculture in the Dutch 

 East Indies has sent numerous publications of the department, 

 including the final part of J, J. Smith's Die Orchideen von Java : 

 Figur en- Atlas; and from the Director of the Botanic Garden, 

 Utrecht, have been received Flora voor de Nederlandsch West- 

 Indische Eilanden and The Flora of Cxiragaoy Aruha and Bonaire, 

 both by I, Boldingh. 



As in previous years a number of publications of the Geological 

 Survey of Canada has been sent to Kew by the Director. 



The"^ first part of the Flora Sibiriae et Orientis extremi, edited 

 by officers of the Botanical Museum of the Imperial^ Academy of 

 Sciences, Petrograd, has been presented by the Administration of 



the Museum. 



From the Botanical Museum, Upsala, 19 books and pamphlets 

 by R, E, Fries and Th, C. E. Fries, including Botanische Unter- 

 suchunqen im nordlichsten Schiveden by the latter, have been 

 received; while Dr. R, E. Fries has personally contributed to the 

 library a copy of his Botanische Untersiichungen der wissenschaft- 

 lichen Ergehnisse der Schwedischen Rhodesia-KoTigo-Expedition, • 



191 U12, Bd. i. Heft 1. 



Among other accessions to the library the foUowinp^ presenta- 

 tions should be mentioned : — The Annals of the Bolus Herbarium^ 



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H. H. W 



Tlie Botany of IceJandy from the editors, Dr. L. Kolderup 



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