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this Institution should be changed to “The Imperial College 
of Tropical Agriculture ’’( K.B. 1920, p. 81; 1922, pp. 255, 302). 
Paintings of Burmese and Madras Plants.—Colonel W. G. 
King, I.M.S. (retd.), C.I1.E., whose contribution to the library of 
10 albums of original paintings of Burmese and Madras plants was 
announced in the Kew Bulletin, 1922, p. 42, has recently presented 
five other albums of paintings of Burmese plants. The 15 albums 
contain altogether 1,017 paintings of which 649 were done in 
Burma and 368-in Madras. All are the unaided and untutored 
work of his wife, now deceased, accomplished during the years 
1886 to 1910. While it is not claimed for these paintings that 
they possess great artistic merit, they appear on the whole to 
be faithful representations, and their value is much enhanced 
owing to the fact that in many instances fruiting specimens 
have been depicted There are more than 100 paintings of 
Burmese Cucurbitaceae, mostly including fruits, and many of 
them have been furnished with names which have been corrected 
or verified by the late Mr R. A. Rolfe. Much of the work of 
identification remains to be done, and it is probable that in 
ome cases it can never be completed satisfactorily, for no 
botanical artist, however talented, is likely to be so fortunate 
as to succeed, without instruction and supervision, in delineating 
all the essential characters by which a species may be recognised 
and distinguished from its allies. Mr. J. 8. Gamble has kindly 
looked over the Madras collection and has tentatively named a 
portion of it. The paintings have been carefully and neatly 
mounted, partly, if not entirely, by Colonel King himself, who 
has also prepared typed lists of them, giving localities and dates 
where and when the plants were found, such names as have 
been supplied, and occasional remarks by Mrs. King. 
The Kendall Australian Collection.—The Australian collection 
in the Herbarium has recently received a useful addition through 
the kindness of the Council of the Royal Geographical Society, 
by the presentation of about 130 specimens collected by Mr. R. J. 
Kendall in the sixties, in the vicinity of Castlemain, Victoria. 
The plants are well pressed and mounted, and form a welcome 
addition to a flora which is none too well represented at Kew. 
Flora of West Africa.—With the approaching completion of 
the Flora of Tropical Africa, it has been arranged with the 
Colonies concerned, through the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies, that a handbook on the flora of West Africa shall be 
_ prepared at Kew. This project has been contemplated at Kew 
for some time and in fact was actually indicated by Sir William 
Hooker in his memorandum to the Colonial Office in 1863 when 
he detailed the series of floras required for the Colonies (K.B. 
