or " Key Nuts ' 
Guinea; arc sh 
will be found ii 
Shea Butte 
in Upper Guine 
sernbling an inferior quality < 
2 inches long with a thin pei 
seed with very thick cotyled 
natives by drying the kerne 
bruised and finally boiled, wl 
is skimmed off for use. Thif 
as food, for anointing their b 
in combination with other o 
extent of "7 to -75 per cent, if 
Report for 1878, p. 3S. Kj 
contained in Case 73, Muset 
found in the collection. 
Collection of Drawings of Orchids by the late John D 
September, b.»02. Mrs. Woismnlmlmo. of High Cross, Tot 
Sister of Mr. John Day. well kno.n .luring his pun. I 
gentleman. Mrs. Wolstenholme had previously bequeath 
collection to Kew, but felt that she was delaying its use 
by keeping it in her possession. As delivered at Kew, 
sisted of 53 oblong books of about 90 pages each, 1 
complete index. The books have since been bound 
volumes, and they contain approximately 3,000 coloured 
ings, with about 500 in sepia, besides copious original noi 
a large number of cuttings from the "Gardeners' t'hre 
and other papers relating to orchids. We have not succee 
finding any published biography of the author, and only 
scattered facts concerning hie life and his collections. 
Mrs. Wolstenholme has communicated the toll,, wing parfh 
John Day was born on February 3rd, 1824, in London, 
his father, a city merchant, resided mitil IS 10, when the 
death in L853 live at the old home, am 
there he married in I.S53 ; but losing his wife in 1S57, 1 
the old home, and joined Mr. and Mrs. \\ 'olstenhojme at 
Thither, °in 18 lection of coll 
ferns, to which he had for some years devoted much att< 
Shortly afterwards he took up the cultivation of orchids 
built suitable houses, and soon filled them with valuable 
In course of time his collection became one of the riche 
most famous of the period. Then his health broke down, a 
visited the Mediterranean countries, which gave him a » 
