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purchases of books for the library. Through their liberality a good 
copy of Redoute’s fine work, the Choix des plus belles Heurs, has been 
acquired. It appears to be very scarce, especially in a complete 
state. In 1892 a copy was offered by a London bookseller for 
£20, and ten years later another was sold by auction by Messrs. 
Sotheby, Wilkinson and Hodge for £31. Pritzel and some other 
bibliographers state that the work, which was published in Paris 
between 1827 and 1833, contains 144 plates, while another gives the 
number as 143. The Kew copy contains 145. 
From the same source has been received an excellent copy of the 
first edition (Paris, 1553) of Les observations de plusieurs singularitez 
et choses memorables trouvées en Greece, Asie, &c., by Pierre Belon, 
a small quarto of 210 folios, with numerous illustrations in the text. 
There were several other French editions between 1554 and 1588, 
and in 1589 a Latin translation by Clusius was published in 
Antwerp. It may be remarked that the portrait of Belon and the 
illustration of Mount Sinai, which are present in the 1555 edition, 
are both absent from the first edition, though according to Pritzel’s 
collation this edition should contain the portrait. 
The Bentham Trustees have also presented a set of the Bulletins 
du cercle professoral pour le progrés de ( Arboriculture en Belgique or, 
as they were afterwards called, Bulletins d’ Arboriculture, de Culture 
potagére et de Floriculture. is publication was edited by 
. Burvenich, Ed. Pynaert, and others, and was first issued in 1865. 
‘The Kew set comprises 39 volumes, extending to 1905. The work 
is chiefly of interest to the horticulturist, and especially to the 
pomologist. Among other presentations by the Bentham Trustees 
are two copies of the fourth volume of Elwes and Henry’s T'rees of 
Great Britain and Ireland, and the sixth (and last) series of 
Boudier’s Icones Mycologicae. 
Sir Frank Crisp, J.P., F.L.S., has presented the Cyclopedia of 
American Agriculture, edited by L. H. Bailey, in four large octavo 
volumes ; La jflore alpine, Genéve [1908 ?], by H. Correvon and 
P. Robert, and Planting and Ornamental Gardening, London, 1785, 
a work attributed to William Marshall. 
Dr. N. L. Britton, Director-in-Chief of the New York Botanical 
During the year two more parts of the North American Flora, 
the colossal work which is being published by the New York 
Botanical Garden, were presented by Dr. Britton from whom nine 
parts had previously been received. According to the present 
design the Flora will comprise thirty-two large octavo volumes. 
