LIV -MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Captain AT. Gage, M.A., B.Sc, I.M.S., who has been 
or the Calcutta Herbarium since 1898, has been appointed 
Dr. D. H. SCOTT, whose appointment as Honorary Keeper of 
i]i«'-l<"Uvll Lulmi .ry was in nouncedin th<$Kew Bulletin I'. i ls«.>-_>, 
p. 345, has relinquished the post which he has filled with Buch 
distinction during the past fourteen years, to the deep ivsjivi of all 
his colleagues, whose good wishes he carries with him on his 
retirement from Kew. The work done by Dr. Scott, and hv those 
who have availed themselves of the hospitality of the Jodrell 
Laboratory during his Keepership, has been recorded from time 
r< > ; i file in the Bulletin. Dr. Scott's eminent services while at KYw, 
and his distift-ni-lo-d <->u\v\\nuhn^ n> palu-'ontolo-dcal Lot my. 
have been recognised by the University of Aberdeen, which 
conferred on him the honorary degree of LL.D. in September, 
1901}, and by the Royal Society, which awarded him a Royal 
November, 1906. 
Mr. W. H. JOHNSON, F.L.S.. has iv.>ds.'n..'d the }r>M of Director 
of Agriculture, Gold Coast, which he has held since 19iM. Prior 
to this date he was Curator of the Botanic Station, Abnri, having 
been appointed in 1898, after a few months' service as Acting 
Curator (K.B., 1898, pp. 54 and 334). Mr. Johnson has done 
excellent work in the Gold Coast Colony. To his efforts the 
establishment of the Cacao industry is largely due; he has also 
done much to further the establishment of rubber cultivation there. 
He has now joined the service of the Companhia de Mosambique, 
and has proceeded to Beira, Portuguese East Africa. 
Mr. Stanley Arden whose appointment as Superintendent of 
Experimental Plantations in the Federated Malay States was 
recorded in the Kew Bulletin for 1900, p. 15, has resigned that 
post, and has entered private employ as a rubber planter. It is 
now officially notified that Mr. J. W. CAMPBELL, Superintendent 
of Government Plantations, Larut (Kew Bulletin, 1901, 13), has 
been appointed to succeed Mr. Arden, and that Mr. T. W. Main, 
whose appointment was noted in Km- Bull' tin, P.'Oti, p. 88, has 
been selected to succeed Mr. Campbell. 
