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Pusa, . . • edited by T. Baiubrigge Fletcher, and several 



Bulletins of the Agricultural Research Institute, Pusa. 



A brochure entitled Homenagem ao Prof. Doutor Julio 

 Au gusto Henrique*, originally published in Institute, vol. 

 lxv., and issued in commemoration of this well-known Portuguese 

 botanist's eightieth birthday, has been received from the Faculty 

 of Sciences in Coimbra. On p. 25 there is a description of a 

 > new lichen, Psorotichia Henriquesi, Sampaio, discovered on 



Santa Clara Mountains, near Coimbra, where Prof. Ilenriques, 

 as Professor of Botany in the University and Director of the 

 Botanic Garden, has passed the last fifty years of his life. 



In .1917 a collection of 45 letters, written by Dr. F, Welwitsch 



to the late Prof. Daniel Oliver, was received from Prof. F. W. 



Oliver (Kew Bull., 19 18, p. 45). Last year 25 other letters from 



ike same source were received from him, and also 10 from Allan 



j A. Black to Prof. D. Oliver, written after he left Kew for 



Bangalore in 1SG3. Lady Blake has presented tke MS. of a 



Pro visional List of the Flowering Plants of the Bahamas, bv 

 L. J. lv. Brace & J. Gardiner, published in the Proceedings of 

 the Academy of Natural Sciences of Philadelphia, 1889. She 

 kas also presented a copy of the published list, and a copy of 

 Ahern's Notes on Philippine Woods. 



A Panoramic Profile of the Hill Ranges of SikJcim, by H. J. 

 Harman, has been presented by Mr. J. S. Gamble, and a map of 

 Vodena, Macedonia, and of Salonika, by Mr. W. B. Turrill. 



The following have been presented by their respective authors 

 or editors: — Phamphlets on tke botany of Paraguay, by M. S. 

 Bertoni; The Marine Algae of the Danish West Indies, by F. 

 Borgesen, vol. ii., pp. 241-304, and a paper on tke mosses and 

 lichens of those islands, by F. Borgesen and C. Raunkiaer; 

 Relacion de un riaje par el Rio Magdalena, &c, and the English 

 translation, by M. T. Dawe; The Flora of the Presidency of 

 Madras, by J. S. Gamble, part 2, 2 copies, from the author and 

 the Secretary of State for India (see Kew Bull., 1918, pp. 222- 

 228) : a set of the numerous leaflets on medicinal and commercial 

 plants, compiled by Mrs. Grieve: Plantae Thunherqianae, by H. 

 0. Tuel (see Kew Bull., 1918, p. 190); several publications on 

 Italian botany, by C. Massalongo; Species Blancoanae, by E. D. 



Merrill (see Kew Bull.. 1918. p. 351); The Horticultural Note- 

 Book, ed. 3, by J. C. Newskam; several Contributions from the 

 Botanical Department of Iowa State College, by L. H. Pammel 

 and others, from Prof. Pammel: The Botany of Iceland, edited 

 by L. Kolderup Rosenvinge and Eug. Warming, part 2; and 

 a number of pamphlets on Queensland botany, by C. T. Wkite. 



The more important of tke other presentations are: — Etude 

 de la luminescence du Pseud omonas luminescens, by A. de 

 Coulson, from Prof. E. Ckodat, wko kas also presented fascicles 

 1 and 2 of his work La Vegetation du Paraguay, and several 

 publications of tke Botanical Institute of tke University of 

 ■Geneva; Catalogue des produits de Vlndochine, tome 1, by 

 Ck. Crevost & Ck. Lemarie, from the Gouvernement General de 

 Indockine; Planten-Atlas .... van Indische Planten, 

 Vruchten, &c, by Mrs. J. Kloppenburg-Yersteegk, from 



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