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commented on at p. 133 of the Bulletin of the same year. Several 
other presentations made to the library in the course of 1908 have 
been selected for inclusion in the present note. 
The Bentham Trustees have, in addition to other works, presented 
a well preserved copy of the French edition of Dodoens, Cruyde- 
boeck, which was translated by Clusius and published at Antwerp 
in 1557, only three years after the date of the original Flemish 
edition, of which the library possesses a good copy. Like the 
original the translation is a smal olio, containing numerous 
excellent woodcuts of plants. From the same source was received 
the Canon Medicinae of Husain Ibn ’Abd Allah, who is perhaps 
better known under the name of Ibn Sina, or better still, under that 
of Avicenna. The edition presented was published at Venice in 
1595, in two folio volumes, and is ased on that version of 
Avicenna’s writings which is attributed to Gerard of Cremona. 
The Journal et flore des jardins, edited by Boitard, Cels, and others, 
and continued as Annales de flore et de pomone, ou journal des jardins, 
in fourteen volumes, published in Paris between the years 1832 an 
1845; the Annales, ‘vols. i-xxxi, 1873-1906 and Bulletin, vols. i-xi., 
1883- 93, of the Société Botanique de Lyon; series 5 of Bourdier’s 
Icones mycologicae and vol. iii. (2 copies) of Elwes and Henry, 
Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, are other important contribu- 
tions to the library by the Bentham Trustees, who have also, as in 
former years, sheen the issues for the year of about twenty 
periodical publicat 
Sir J. D. ype je continued to present the ae of 
several societies or academies of which he is a member the 
library is indebted to him a eight volumes of manuscripts, er pre 
by himself or by Sir W. J. Hooker. These include Sir Joseph's 
Tour in the United States of America, in 1877, Sir W. J. Hooker's 
Journal of a Tour in Switzerland, in 1814, and the arse ay eranted 
to Sir W. - Hoo er, with correspondence relating to t em 
prise dissertations by H. o ineaee F. ber "M. Jae a 
an G; 
have been added to the library through the kindness of Dr. Hans 
Schinz ; and the publications of the Department of Agriculture im 
the Dutch Hast Indies have been received from the Director. 
The Royal University of Upsala contributed a collection 0 
about 120 pamphlets, chiefly dissertations, 56 of which are the 
original issues of those which were submitted by pupils of Linnaeus, 
and which were subsequently published in the Amoenitates 
Academicae. 
To the Secretary of State for India the establishment is indebted 
for a complete set of the new edition in 26 volumes of The Imperial 
Gazetteer of India, The English Factories in India, 1622-1623, by 
W. Foster, the second edition of Schlich’s Manual of Forestry, 
vol. v., and three copies of The tke Products of India, by 
Sir George Watt; to the Director of Military Operations, War 
