AUSTRALIA. Presented .— West Australia, by Mr. G. H. 
Thiselton-Dyer. 
Purchased .— C Andrews, West Australia; Max Koch, South 
Australia. 
Polynesia. Presented:— Hawaii and Fiji, by Mr. H. B. Guppy. 
Tropical Africa. Presented — Warnecke, Togoland, by 
Botanic Gardens, Berlin ; Nyasaland, by Mr. J. McClonnie; Whyte, 
British Bust Africa, l.v the British Musmm; .Id.. bv Mr. A. Whyte; 
British Bast Africa, by Mr. C. B. Elliot! : Portugese East Africa, 
by the Ven. Archdeacon W. P. Johnson ; Somaliland, by Major 
Appleton ; Sudan, by Mr. A. F. Broun j Grasses, bv the Natural 
History Museum, Paris ; do., by Dr. J. A. Henriques. 
Purchased .-—Zenker, Cameroons. 
ychelles, by Mr. H. P. 
North America. Presented .-—Arctic North America, by 
Mr. D. T. Hanbury; Canada, by Geological Snrvev of Canada: 
Crataegus, by the Arnold Arboretum; Seymour and Baric, 
Economic Fungi, Suppl. C, by Mr. G. P. Clinton. 
Purchased:— Holway, "Uredineae Exsiccatae et Icones," fasc. iv.; 
Weiz, Labrador: Rosendahl and Brand Vam-oii v.r Island. 
Cent ii. ; C. F. Baker, West Coast, North America ; Elmer, 
California ; Heller, California. 
Central America. Presented .—Various parts, by Capt. J. 
Donnell Smith ; Mexico, by Mr. C. G. Pringle ; Gaumer, Yucatan, 
fasc. i., by the Field Columbian Museum, Chicago. 
West Indies. Presented .—Jamaica, by the Department of 
Public Gardens and Plantations, Jamaica. * 
Purchased .— Curtiss, Bahamas. 
Purchased .— Hassler, Paraguay ; Robert, Matto Grosso. 
West Tropical South America. Presented .—Williams, 
Bolivian Mosses, by the New York Botanical Garden. 
Purchased ;-H. H. Smith, Santa Marta, Colombia. 
The most important accession was the Prior Herbarium, which 
has already been notieed (Kew Bull, 1903, p. 32 ^ erDariUm ' WD 
durin^th' 1111 ^ 16 T T° h piCal American collections were received 
2^±fM ^S^tan^d^yl^ 
bpecimens. Mr. bmith s original plan was to exnlniv ih- whoB 
Department of Magdalena, Colombia, hot he W L ^evented from 
doing so by a eml war which broke out in 18OT and made 
ST rn^tr 1 ' 7 l mP r m l- °»^ he was "est "ced* 
to a limited area, extending about 50 milp« oL+ «f +k„ +„,™ *f 
Santa Marta and 40 miles slith, never mo" Zn Lo? » 
