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Council of the International Association for rubber cultivation 
in the Netherland Indies. 
Prof. E. D. Merrill, of the Section of Botany, Bureau of 
Science, Manila, has been engaged for several years on the 
study of Rumphius’s Herbarium Amboinense, which had been 
begun by Dr. C. B. Robinson, whose lamented and tragic death 
occurred in Amboina on Dec. 5, 1918. Prof. Merrill has now 
published the result of his researches in a volume of 595 pages, 
entitled: An interpretation of Rumphius’s Herbarium Amboin- 
ense, a copy of which he has presented to the library. In the 
course of his investigations, Prof. Merrill has discovered over 
a hundred names, a list of which appears in his work, which 
have been omitted from the Index Kewensis. 
Dr. N. L. Britton has sent the parts published during the year 
cf the North American Flora, and the Director of the Depart- 
The following have also been received: Travauae du Labora- 
_.toire de Matiére Médicale de I’ Ecole Supérieure de Pharmacie 
de Paris, published under the direction of Prof. E. Perrot, 
vols. v.-x.; A Contribution to the Phytogeography and Flora of 
: N.W. N uinea), by L. S. 
Gibbs, and The Australian Flora in Applied Art, part 1, The 
Waratah, by R. T. Baker, from the Director, Royal Botanic 
Gardens, Kew; A Record of Plants collected in Southern 
ductive Industries, Government of Formosa; Gleanings in old 
garden literature, by W. C. Hazlitt, from Miss M. Smith ; 
Vernacular list of Pecos Shrubs and Woody Climbers in the 
Madras Presidency, by A. W. Lushington, from Mr. J. § 
The more important of the publications added to the library 
e:—British Grasses and their 
griculture, by S. F Armstrong, (from the 
