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by J. S. Gamble (a copy of which has also been presented by 
the author), A Manual of Elementary Botany for India, b 
R. B. Ranga Aslagh and further issues of the Madras 
Presidency College Botanical ag containing Prof. Fyson’s 
res and descriptions of Madras Plants. 
._ he Under-Secretary of State for Egypt has presented eleven 
bulletins of the Technical and Scientific Service of the Ministry 
of Agriculture, Egypt, and a Heport on the great imvasion of 
Locusts in E gypt un 1915. 
The Trustees of the British Museum have presented the Report 
on Collections of Natural History made in the Antarctic Regions 
during the Voyage of the “ Southern Cross,”’ and the two volumes 
of the Catalogue of the Mesozoic Plants in the British Museum 
The Cretaceous Flora, by Dr. Marie Stopes. 
From Lady Church ee been received a complete set of the 
Dictionary of the Economic Products of India, by Sir G. Watt, 
Indian Art at Delhi, 1903, by the same author, and a volume of 
Technical de seed and scientific papers, edited by W. R. Dunstan ; 
from ooker, the continuation of the Comptes Rendus des 
Séanoas a Académie des Sciences, Paris; and from Miss Alice 
Eastwood, the weekly issues of Science for the year. 
From Sir Frank Crisp, Bart., have been received a copy of 
C. van Géel’s Sertum Botanicum, published in Brussels in 
1828 to 1832, and a complete set of the Dictionnaire incono- 
ay OR des Orchidées, by A. Cogniaux and A. Goossens. 
r WS. Thiselton-Dyer has presented a number of pamphlets, 
a vas collection of notes, cuttings, etc., relating to the history 
of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, photographs of — of 
special morphological interest, and a volume of manuscript 
notes, with drawings, on his botanical lectures delivered at "Sourh 
sone ae for the Science and Art Department in 1873. 
sented by Dr. W. — en This was published at 
Weimar in 1822 and 1825, and is in two octavo volumes, formin 
part of the Neue Bibliothek der wichtigsten Reisebeschreibungen, 
edited . J. Bertuch. Only one of the plates issued in the 
original work appears with the translation, and the Latin diag- 
noses of plants and animals are omitted. The copy now acquired 
formerly belonged to Burchell himself, and is in excellent con- 
dition. Dr. Hemsley has also presented Unpublished Documents 
on the History of the Seychelles Islands anterior to 1810, etc., 
by A. A. Fauvel. 
Prof. Hans Schinz has supplied the library with further 
numbers of the Mitteilungen aus dem botanischen Museum 
Ziirich, No. 70 of which consists of the second part of Die Flora 
des Val Onsernone, by J. Bir. Other contributions from Prof. 
Schinz are:—Die Vegetationsverhiiltnisse des Pflanzenschon- 
bezirkes bei Berchtesgaden, by K. Magnus, and Weitere Beitrige 
= Kenntnis der Wirkung von Bakterien auf Gemiisekonserven, 
. by G. Rudolph. 
— C. S. Sargent has sent four more parts of the Plantae 
Wilsonianae, which has now reached the second part of vol. iii., 
