Gaodyera repens is one of the most widely distributed of orchids, 
occurring all round the northern hemisphere. The specimen from 
Norfolk has been deposited in the Kew Herbarium on indefinite 
W. B. H. 
Presentations to the Library during 1905-The Bentham Trustees 
have presented the following : - / s, De pro- 
priekti bus rerum, 1." The Great Herbal of 
L526, is the earliest book in the English language at Kew; Dios- 
mrides. Coder Anieiae Jul,, mar fl irfaris i/lastratus, 1905, a 
reproduction in facsimile of the famous Dioscoridian Codex pre- 
served in th< a t Vienna (see Kew J: 
p. i i » i : Hi 11, Decade di alberi cu ri> Wte I, , di, 
■ re, 1786 ; Parkinson, Paradisi in sole, the first edition, 
1629; Thome, Flora von Deutsehland, etc., 1886-89, 4 vols.; 
oUH, 1595, a herbal printed in Polish and 
published at Cracow; Vallet, U chrestien 
Henry IV. roy de France et de Navare, 1608 ; Herbert, Some 
!<'''"■? !"'•'■?« "< f » <! Ivors pruts nt Africa and Asia the (heat, 
ed. 3, 1677 ; Heuglitu II Ml . . . 
>>t dn-, Jahren 1852-64, 1869; Lea:, T, , f,aU„ % 1892, 2 vols.; 
Srf l fa : ,intir l ;t.Sal:urnlaen.s i, Re/sen in Tad,, a a,,' 
ico's ' f n de ? Jahrm 1^4-58, 1869-80, i vols. ■. Siren*. Asd-n, 
l»J.i ; also the continuation of about 20 periodicals. Sir W. T. 
Ihiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., presented a large number of selected 
tracts from his own library, and the following -.—Berge, PHanzcn- 
Flora, Aqarimcmc, 1902; The 
"''* "f '-■ J - Romanes, 1896- and W. G. Smith, 
work on tJ 
..Mataatsaad hyhr 
L905. Ashe, Sot 
< of the 
' T £ » , ' - e new 8 P ecies °f th( ' 9 emfs Crataegus, 
etc 1900, and A . . < A ,n.,i, ,„ Flo, ,, , i. xxii ; part8 1 and 2, 
iyuo, were received from the Director-in-Chief of the New York 
?holTT? a , rden Vt *"•*. 1905, from Sir 
PaZw ;'^7- V - X •°- : ;i l " n - -"'>«■»■ ■"■'i-1- on Vegetable 
> ley, published in the G«4w 
• B. Carruthers ; De Wildeman, Mission E. 
... pendant sa 
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C n -. i !]tat Independant du 
vd,\TJ %P lr ^ r of the Botanic r '«'-«i«-». r f- ,1;i: 
from the Regents of 
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ft*? -* Jfe ** tile Timber* 
-ftESftffifTJ V g ,iculture 
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