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T» S rl e r S £ f ^o^grap^s of the Karroo region, S. Africa, from 

 Prof. M. C. Potter, Armstrong College, Newcastle. 



Odontadenia speciosa. Small sample of rubber prepared from 

 this plant, present value about 2s. per lb. Received from Mr. 

 J. H. Hart, F.L.S., Superintendent, Royal Botanic Gardens, 

 Trinidad. Case 78, Museum No. I. 



Specimens from Gold Coast, Rubber from Funtumia elastica, 

 coagulated with an infusion of the leaves of Bauhinia reticulata. 

 Case 78, Museum No. I. 



Fruits of Landolphia senegalemis. Case 75, Museum No I 

 * ruits of Elaeis guineensis, var. The pericarp of the fruit yields a 

 white oil. Case 61, Museum No. IT. Received from Mr. A. E 

 Lvans, Botanical and Agricnltural Department, Gold Coast. 



Mangrove {Rhizophora Mangle). Young plants and an aerial 

 branched root 52 feet in length. Received from Mr. W. Croslev 

 Prestea, Gold Coast. Case 51, Museum No. I. and Museum 



No. 111. 



Produce from Mincing Lane. Hevea brasiliensis, oil from the 



seeds, from Ceylon. Chillies from Java. False Buchu (Barosma 



pulchella ?) from Cape Colony. Scopolia japonica, roots from 

 Japan. 



JODRELL LABORATORY. -A portrait of Dr. D. H. Scott, F.R.S , 

 whose retirement from the post of Honorary Keeper of the 

 Laboratory was recorded in the Kew Bulletin for 1906, p. 383 

 having been subscribed for by botanists who have from time to 

 time actually worked in the Laboratory, was on the afternoon of 

 Saturday, 29th February, presented to Kew by the subscribers. 

 It is placed in the Keeper's private room. The portrait is the 

 work of Mr. J. Kerr-Lawson. 



Library.— The Benthain Trustees have presented to the 

 Library an excellent copy of the Buck der Natur of Conrad von 

 Alemann, of Magdeburg, usually known as Conrad von Megenberg 

 It is a small folio of 240 leaves, including two blank, and 12 full- 

 page woodcuts. Title-page, pagination, signatures and catch- 

 words are all wanting, as is usually the case in books of the 

 period to which it belongs. The full-page consists of 35 lines in 

 one column, printed in Gothic type. The volume is dated 1482, 

 and was published at the press of Anthonius Sorg, in Augsburg. 

 Many of the leaves are quite uncut, and the binding of the 

 original boards covered with stamped leather is remarkably well 

 preserved. The Buck der Natur was first printed in 147.~>, and 

 altogether six editions appeared in the fifteenth century, the last 

 in 1499. According to Meyer (Geschichte der Boiunik, iv. 

 198-206, 278-280) other editions with a slightly modified title 

 were issued in 1536 and 1540, and Pritzel (Tlies. Lit. Bat., ed. 2, 

 n. 6052) records an edition, edited by F. Pfeiffer,au<l published at 

 Stuttgart, in 1861. From evidence which the book itself affords 

 we gather that Alemann flourished about the middle of the 

 fourteenth century. He himself was not the author of the work, 

 for he acknowledges that he translated it from Latin into German. 

 Meyer supports the opinion of Choulant that it is a very free 

 translation of De naturis rerum, an unpublished manuscript of 



