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proposed by N. L. Burman in his Flora Indica, by E. D. Merrill; 
Flora sylvatica Koreana, by T, Nakai, pt. XI; A list vi] flowering 
plants from Inner Asia, collected by ‘Dr. Sven Hedin, by ©. -H 
Ostenfeld and O. Paulsen ; Five years’ observations on ie bio- 
nomics of Southern Nigerian insects, by the late C. O. Farquharson, 
edited by E. B. Poulton, from Editor; Bibliography of the woods 
of the world, and Boxwoods of commerce, by 8. J. Record; Con- 
tribution a Vétude des boissons toxiques des Indiens du Nord- 
Ouest de l’ Amazone, by P. Reinberg; Descriptions of three hundred 
species of South American plants, by H. H. Rusby; The natural 
history of Juan Fernandez and Easter Island, edited by C. Skotts- 
berg, vol. ii. pt. 2, from Editor; A simple key to one hundred 
common trees of Burma, by C. B. Smales; 41 Papers, chiefly on 
Orchidaceae, including contributions to N. ova Guinea, J. 
Smith; The centenary of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Peradeniya, 
by F. ‘A. Stockdale, T. Petch, and H. F. Macmillan; A guide 
to the identification of the more useful timbers of Ni igeria, by 
H. Stone and H. A. Cox; A Supplement to F. Hamilton Davey’s 
Flora of Cornwall, by E. Thurston and C. C. Vigurs, from, 
Mr. Thurston; and With Lord Byron at the Sandwich Islands 
in 1825; being extracts from the MS. diary of James Macrae, 
Scottish botanist, by W. F. Wilson. 
Colonel W. G. King, I.M.S., C.1.E., whose nieamntision of 
842 paintings of Madras and Burmese plants, by the late 
Mrs. King, was mentioned in K..B. 1922, p. 42, has since given 
to the library a volume containing about 230 paintings in Indian 
“earth colours”’ of medicinal plants sng by Mahommedans ; 
it was once the property of a “ hakeem ” of Kurnool, Madras 
Presidency, and its date is probably es 1854, Miss Macbean 
has presented a volume containing 213 paintings from nature 
of plants (mostly introduced) in St. Helena; these paintings 
were made by her father, General W. Forbes Macbean, in 1848. 
Contributions to the Kew collection of drawings of plants 
have been received from Mrs. Ernest -Hart (128 drawings of 
Japanese plants), Dr. W. Botting Hemsley (numerous published 
illustrations of species. of Hucalyptus), Miss Alice Mungo Park 
(19. water-colour drawings by her sister of plants growing in 
Madeira, chiefly cultivated), Miss M. Smith (41 plates from 
Mrs. Valletin’s I Illustrations of the flowering plants and ferns of 
the Falkland Islands), and from the Royal Horticultural Society 
(7 original drawings for the Botanical Mayazine and 12 proofs). 
Monsieur F, Gagnepain, in addition to the large collection of 
his own botanical papers mentioned above, has presented 12 
portraits of French Botanists including E. Bureau, G. A. Chatin, 
M. Cornu, E. A. Finet, A. Franchet, A. F. M. Glaziou, E. Malin- 
vaud, J. BL. Pierre, J. A. Ramond, B, Renault and E. Roze. 
Report of the Herbarium, 1$22.—The average sees of 
specimens received at.the Herbarium for the five years 1910- 
1914 was somewhat over 31,000 per annum and during the 
