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r, C. VAN DER VoET, a member of the gardening staff of 
thd Royal Botanic Gardens, has, we are informed, received an 
appointment in the Botanic Gardens, University of Michigan, Ann 
Arbor, U.S.A. 
Presentations to Museums.—The following miscellaneous specimens 
have been received since those recorded in Bulletin No. 1 of the 
present year. 
Right Honourable the Earl of Darnley,Cobham Hall, Kent.— 
Sections of timber of Liriodendron tulipifera, Ulmus campestris, 
Frazinus excelsior, Carpinus Betulus, Castanea sativa, Quercus 
pedunculata, Cedrus Deodara and Pinus Pinaster. 
Right Honourable the Earl of Wharncliffe, Wortley Hall, 
Sheftield—Four sections from trunks of young sycamore trees and 
four sections from young oak trees. Four sections of wood of 
Corsican pine and a section of common birch with Polyporus betuli 
growing on same. 
Mr. W. H. Johnson, F.L.S., Director of Agriculture, Companhia 
de Mogambique, Beira.—Several small sections of wood and samples 
of Cacao nibs from the Island of S. Thomé, also bag made with 
the seeds of Leucaena glauca by natives of Mozambique. 
Director, Raffles Museum and Library, Singapore.—Plaster cast 
of fruit of Entada spiralis. 
Mr. W. Klemme, Bureau of Forestry, Manila.—Section of 
“ Mancono” wood (Xanthostemon Verdugonianus). This tree is 
found in abundance in north-eastern Mindanao, Philippine Islands, 
and the timber has. been pronounced by the United States Naval 
Department as a satisfactory substitute for the wood of Lignum 
— (Guaiacum officinale). See Kew Bulletin No. 3, 1909, 
p- 156. 
Ir Douglas Dering, H.M. Vice-Consul, Manaos, Brazil.— 
Fruits of Leopoldinia Piassaba, the palm furnishing Para Piassaba 
of commerce. 
Mr. R. Tower, H.M. Minister, Mexico.—Specimens of wood of 
Lignum Nephriticum (Eysenhardtia amorphoides). See Kew 
Bulletin, No. 7, 1909, p. 293. 
. John Christie, of Messrs. Ide and Christie, Mark Lane, 
London, E.C.—Photo-micrographs of Venetian Whisk (Sorghum 
vulgare), Mexican Whisk (Epicampes macroura), Kittool fibre 
( Caryota urens), fibre from stem of Xanthorrhoea australis, and of 
transverse sections of the rhizome of Cymodocea antarctica, 
marine submerged plant used in Western Australia for brush- 
making. See Table Case, Room VII., Museum No. II. : 
Messrs. Sutton and Sons, Reading.—A collection of models of 
vegetables. 
Dr. Emile Christ, Reunion.—-Samples of Faham tea (Angraecum 
fragrans) and of Vanilla ( Vanilla planifolia) one 
Messrs. Bibby and Sons, Liverpool.—Samples of Soy beans 
(Glycine hispida), imported into this country from Harbin and 
Sakura. Also a collection of 27 specimens of weed seeds. 
Mr. James Kelly, Claremont.—Fruits of Pterocarya caucasica 
from a tree growing at Claremont, Esher. - 
