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to Museums— Crinellino Stuffing (Posidonia 
Caxtt/ti/. Ivn.-iiLi. XiiKi'himie. In the 1) plomat c and Consular 
Report on the Trade of Sicily for the year 1905, H.M. Vice-Consul 
at Catania reports that a factory employing 50 hands has been 
established at Crinellino to prepare bed-stuffing from this plant, 
through the Foreign Office, H.M. Consul at Palermo his obtained 
examples of the crude and prepared products for the Museum. 
These will be found in Room 7, Museum No. II. 
Maize Products (Zea Mays, L.i, Gramineae. Dr. C. F. 
.-:!, Curator of the Department of Botany, Field Museum 
of Natural History, Chicago, has presented to the Museum a series 
of specimens illustrating the manufacture of Starch and Glucose 
from Maize. These have been placed in Room 8, Museum No. II. 
Vegetable Ivory (Sogus [JP/mr///o/,] aminirum, Wendl.), 
Prrfmue. Specimens of the ivory-like nuts of this palm, a native 
of the i'aeitic Islands, have been submitted by a correspondent for 
ion. They were purchased under the name of u Fos- 
siliz, i A |, .;. -"' for the nan Uacture of ornamental articles. These 
nuts are exported from the Solomon Islands as Vegetable Ivory, 
and are known under this name and also under that of " Apple 
X tits " in the commerce of this country. See Kew Bulletin, 1897, 
p. 417, and Case 51, Museum No. II. 
Berg Bass (Osyris abyssinica, Hochst.), Santalaceae. Dried 
specimens of the leaves of this plant, described as a shrub and 
employed in tannin- in various parts of South Africa, have 
recently been received at the Museum for determination. Hitherto 
this plant does not appear to have been considered of economic 
value but ati allied plant, viz.. Cape Sumach (. C-dpoon rumpre^ii.m. 
Berg.), the lease, of which bear a close resemblance of those of 
this O.x ///■/*, are known to be employed locally for tanning. An 
article on Cape Sumach, giving , ^\}" \^ 
a 8, p. 18. See also Case 102, Museum No. I. 
J. M. H. 
Additions to the Herbarium during I905.-Donations of specimen 
were made by about one hundred persons and insl 
amounted to over lll.ouo .lcats. The , i)t ci:c ens purchased 
amounted to nearly 7,000 sheets. The principal collections are 
enumerated below. 
Various Parts of the World. p^^/^.-Orchidac. *e 
and Asclepiadaceae from New C:. :ai ' L - 
Guinea, by Mr. R. Schlechter ; Mosses and Erysiphaceae, b 5 
Mr. E. S. Salmon ; Oidia, by Mr. P. Magnus. 
Purchased:— Knencker, " Gramineae Exsiccatae." lief, xvii.- 
xviii. : "Carices Exsiccatae."' lief, xii.-xiia. 
Arctic AND ANTARCTIC REGIONS. Printed •—Antarctic 
mosses by Mr. J Cardot : Melville Island, by Mi* Louisa 
