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Franco-British Exhibition, the International Rubber Exhibition, 
and the Hungarian Exhibition. From these sources the bulk of the 
presentations have been received. From several exhibitors at the 
Dorchester Show many specimens of home-grown timber, photo- 
graphs, and other material interesting in forestry have been received, 
These are in course of preparation as museum specimens. Many 
other donations of more or less interest have been recorded in the 
g the year. 
All available duplicates, fully labelled, have been distributed to 
48 recipients, including the Imperial College of Science an 
Imperial Institute, the Curator of the Museum of the Pharma- 
ceutical Society, the Director of the Colonial Museum, Haarlem, 
the Secretary of the London Chamber of Commerce, the Editor of 
the India Rubber Journal and others. In nearly 270 of these 
enquiries the products have been determined, and in most instances 
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Departments in the Colonies commercial opinions and advice upon 
products submitted have been obtained from experts. 
Much work remains to be done in dealing with the large quantity 
of products received from the exhibitions, Other work in hand 
consists of the preparation of a new edition of the Guide to the 
Timber Museum and a list of the Useful Plants of Nigeria. 
Additions to the Herbarium during 1908—About 11,500 sheets 
were presented or received in exchange, while over 11,700 sheets 
were purchased. The principal collections are enumerated below. 
xcept where otherwise stated or implied, the collections purchased 
are named, and those presented are unnamed or only partially 
named, 
m, by | » C.I.E.; named Aconitum, by the 
Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta; named Bamboos, by Mr. J. H. 
de Lehaie; various named plants, by the Botanical Museum, 
Copenhagen ; « Bryotheca exotica,” cent. i., by Dr. E. Levier, 
ag Mechased :—Kneucker, “ Gramineae Exsiceatae,” lief. xxiii.— 
Evurore. Presented :-—« Kryptogamae Exsic gO 
—xvi., by the Imperial Natural History Koacan, Viewna, Britich 
seeds, by Mr, Clement Reid ; critical British lants, by M ee SS OF 
Salmon; named Briti i by Mr, A. D. Cotton ; 
Ba Greek plants, by Mr, M, Petitmengin, 
Pangan = Fee Balkan Peninsula ; Fiori, Béguinot and 
“Hon ra i: oe ey Exsiccata, cent. v.—vi. ; Dahlstedt, 
BF eam a ears cent. xxi.—xxii. ; Sydow, 
