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The Director of the 'Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew, has presented 

 a number of publications including : — Endemismi ed esodemismi 

 nelJa Flora Italiana, by L. Buscalioni & G. Muscatello ; Le 

 C orate Oswald de Kerchove de Dent erg hem {Notes bio graph- 

 iques), by A. Ceuterick; Bemerkvngen iibev Hasselquist's 

 Herbarium, by F. 0. Juel; and The Flora of the District of the 

 Thames Valley Drift between Maidenhead and London, by 

 H. W. Monckton. A copy of a Flora of Epsom and its neigh- 

 bourhood, by T. N. II. Smith-Pearse, has been presented by 



the Assistant Director. 



From Prof. C. S. Sargent has been received a copy of the 

 second volume of the Catalogue of the Library of the Arnold 

 Arboretum of Harvard University. This volume contains the 

 subject catalogue, and being compiled from a rich collection of 

 botanical literature it forms a very valuable addition to this 

 particular group of bibliographies and will prove of great useful- 

 ness to botanists everywhere. 



Dr. 1ST. L. Britton has sent to Kew a copy of his Flora of 

 Berwvda, a descriptive and illustrated work (see Kew Bull., 

 1918, p. 247), and of his Flora of the American Virgin Islands, 

 an enumeration of the plants, with localities; he has also pre- 

 sented a further part (vol. xxi. pt. 3, Allioniaceae) of the North 

 1 1 m erica n Flora . 



The series of valuable pomological works issued by the New 

 York Agricultural Experiment Station has been supplemented 

 by a volume on The Peaches of New York, by Prof. Hedrick 

 and others, a copy of which has been received from the Director 

 of the Station. A short review of this work appeared in Kew 

 Bull, 1918, p. 160. 



Mr. J. II. Maiden is making good progress with his elaborate 

 Critical Revision of the Genus Eucalyptus, five parts having 

 reached the library from him during the year. He has als< 

 presented a copy of part 2 of the Forestry Handbook of New 

 South Wales, giving his account of some of the principal com- 

 mercial trees of the State, and a copy of The Flora of the 



Northern Territory [of Australia], by A. J. Ewart and 0. B. 



Da vies, to which Mr. Maiden contributed appendices on the 



enera Eucalyptus and Acacia. Copies of this work have also 



een received from Prof. Ewart and the Agent-General for 

 Victoria. 



Malaya 



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sets already in the library, will prove of much usefulness, as 

 they are mostly books in constant demand. Amongst them are 

 4 volumes of Hooker's Flora of British India, 20 numbers, 



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for a Flora of 



Malayan Peninsula, with th 3 parts on the Monocotyledons by 

 H. N. Ridley, and 4 volumes of the Agricultural Bulletin of 

 the Straits and Federated Malay States. 



Prom the Agricultural Adviser to the Government of India 

 a copy of E. J. Butler's Fungi and Disease in Plants has been 

 received (see review in Kew Bull., 1918, p. 246); also Report 

 of the Proceedings of the Second Entomological Meeting held at 



