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Miss Sargant was an exceptionally skilled observer, and her 
work was of the highest degree of accuracy. Her style in writing 
her papers was as clear and vigorous as her observation was exact. 
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Boissier Herbarium.—A letter received at Kew from Professor 
Chodat contains the important announcement that the famous 
herbarium accumulated by Mr. E.. Boissier, after his death the 
property of his son-in-law the late Mr. W. Barbey, along wi 
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ary last, to the Botanical Institute of the University of Geneva. 
The collections and the library are to be transported to the Uni- 
versity. Mr. Beauverd, the present curator of the herbarium 
will continue in office after the transfer. 
Himalayan Exploration.—A valuable contribution to our 
knowledge of Himalayan geography, and at the same time a 
graceful appreciation of Sir Joseph Hooker’s services in the same 
field, has been published by Lieut.-Col. W. J. Buchanan, I.M.S., 
C.I.E., in a paper* which appears in volume xiv. of Bengal Past 
and Present, and of which the author has sent a reprint to Kew. 
m . ope nag preliminary to a brief biographical sketch of Sir 
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accurate as a guide-book that it has been my custom for some 
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includes the world’s loftiest mountain. 
*“Tn the Footsteps of Hooker through Sikki 2 
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