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in rlu- I'lvfaco to the iirst selection of the kind, which deals with 
Vegetable Fibres,' and was issued eight years ago. 
" The practical value of previous selections has been so great 
that the issue of the present volume, which deals with < f;„bl,et-.' 
requires no explanation. 
''The arrangement of the papers here reprinted from the pages 
■♦ \ h ?£f WB ' UUi t" MStll: " a,1, ' 1,[ " 1 ^ «»1- .-.-l.-.-ti..,. 
s ; the notes and papers regarding individual rubber- 
pven in the sequence adopted in the Genera 
i lu.imnnn of Bentham and Hooker, of the natural families to 
Y" ! / " van-.u. , P , cies belong. Those few papers, of a general 
riivty be allocated to particular 
' "\ ''"' ,,; ;l " Kwnu time cannot convenientlv be 
div ided into sections, precede the more special articles." 
Government Botanist, Western Australia.-We learn with regret 
i the abolition by the Government. 
of Government IWanisi 
i the Colony held by Mi 
Index to Kew Bulletin.-An index to the Bulletin from its 
inception in 1887 to the end of the pre*ei 
(Appendix V.) to the volume for 1906, with the obiect of 
those who file the Bulletin to l, ,„l , ' neral Index 
co^s~ V ° 1Ume ' ° r t0 bind » ■*«"* as ^ suit their 
