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Minister of the Belgian Colonies. Uganda and British Bast 

 Africa, by Mr. J. D. Snowden. Rhodesia, by Mr. F. lis. 

 Purchased : R. A. Dumrner, Uganda. 



Soutu Afhica. — ] } resented : Transvaal, &c, by Mr. I. B. 

 Pole-Evans. 



North America. — Presented: British Columbia, by Miss 

 E. M. Warren. Washington State, by Mr. J. M. Grant. 



West Indies. — Presented: Dominica, Ac., by Mr. W. 



Fishlock. 



South America. — Presented: Colombia and Venezuela 



(Arnold and G. Schmidtclien), by Messrs. Sander & Sons. 



A detailed list of tbe specimens collected during the military 

 operations in Macedonia has been published in the Kew Bulletin, 

 1918, pp. 249-341. Plants from the Madias Government Her- 

 barium have been received through Mr. J. S. Gamble, who is 

 working out the Flora of the Presidency of Madras. Shiv 

 Ram Jvaskyap has presented some of the new species of 

 Hepaticae, which he has described in vols, xiii and xiv of the 

 New Phytoiogist. Rawalpindi plants have been collected by 

 Driver T. A. Sprague, a member of the Herbarium Staff, but 

 now on active service. Miss L. S. Gibbs has presented speci- 

 mens of her Dutch New Guinea collections, which are enumerated 

 in her Contribution to the Phyto geography and Flora of the 

 Arfak Mountains, also some of her Tasmanian plants. 



Cryptogams from the Philippine Islands nave been contributed 

 by Mr. E. D. Merrill. Specimens of new species of Kew 

 Zealand plants described by Mr. T. P. Cheeseman have been 

 presented by the author. Amongst the collectors in Tropical 

 Africa, who have continued to send specimens, are Mr. J. D. 

 Snowden, of Uganda, Dr. J. M. Dalziel, of Lagos, and Mr. F. 

 Eyles, of Rhodema. The Minister of the Belgian Colonies 

 have presented the grasses collected in the Belgian Congo 

 region by R. Pere Hyac. Vanderyst, and so enabled their deter- 

 minations to be included in the volume of the Flora of 

 Tropical Africa, now in the press. The Uganda specimens 

 purchased from Mr. P. A. Dummer were those collected during 

 the Dummer-Maclennan Expedition to Mount Elgon. Miss 

 E. M. Warren's more recent collections from British Columbia 

 have been made in the neighbourhood of Vernon. 



Yews for the State of Georgia. — The Colonv of Georgia, now 



one of the United States of North America, was founded by 

 General James Edward Oglethorpe in 1732. He belonged to 

 an ancient family long settled at Oglethorpe in West Yorkshire, 

 and was an ardent philanthropist and colonizer. He lived for 

 some vears in Georg-ia, nursing the infant colonv, returning in 

 1743 to marry the heiress of Sir Nathan Wright, who brought 

 him a fortune, including 1 Cranham Hall in Essex. Here he lived 

 until his death in 1785. The Hall, now reduced to a farm- 

 house, is situated on a gentle eminence less than a mile outside 



