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of 1917 include The Conifers and Taxads of Japan, by EH. H. 
Wilson, and the final part of The Plantae Wilsonianae. The 
last-named work is in nine parts, forming three thick octavo 
volumes, comprising altogether nearly 2000 pages. Amon 
Prof. Sargent’s other presentations is a copy of Color Standards 
and Color Nomenclature, by R. Ridgwa 
Prof. Hans Schinz has sent No. 76 of the Mitteilungen aus 
dem botanischen Museum der Universitét Ziirich rom the 
Conservator of Forests, Western Australia, have been received 
A Discussion of Australian Forestry, by D. E. Hutchins, and a 
third edition of Western Australian Timber Tests, 1906 (and 
supplement), by G. A. Julius; and from the Trustees of the 
British Museum, parts 1 and 2 of the Botany of the British 
Antarctic Expedition, 1910. These deal with the Algae. 
Prof. L. H. Bailey’s Standard Cyclopedia of Horticulture 
has been completed by the issue in June of the sixth volume, 
and the establishment is indebted to the author and the pub- 
lishers, Messrs. Macmillan, for an entire set of this extremely 
useful work. 
y Centi y y of 
sented to the library. Ina letter to the Director, Dr. Prosper 
p. 347). The volume includes portraits of Cavanilles and La 
Gasca and numerous biographical notices of contemporary 
botanists. 
Notwithstanding the extremely unsettled state of Russia there 
is evidence that some progress in botanical research has been 
ade, and numerous publications have been received from Mr. 
Boris Fedtschenko, Mr. D. Janischewsky, Mr. H. A. Naumoff, 
and the Director of the Botanic Garden of Nikita, Yalta, 
Crimea. Mr. Fedtschenko’s presentations include an illustrated 
Flora of Turkestan and the Kirghiz Steppes, and portions of a 
Flora of Asiatic Russia, both works being in Russian. 
lished by the Netherland Botanical Society, vol. i. s 
(Monocotyledons), has been received from the Secretary of the 
ociety, and the four parts issued of the Communications from 
the Netherland Government Institute for Advising the Rubber 
Trade established. at Delft, have been received f the 
