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Sout America. Presented :—British Guiana, by the Botanic 
Garden, Georgetown ; Brazil and Patagonia, by Dr. F én, 
Purchased :—Lehmann, Colombia, unnamed ; Fiebrig, Paraguay 
and Bolivia; Ule, Bahia; Museo Goeldi, Amazons ; Schroeder, 
. Brazilian Pteridophyta. : 
: n important seca was the Canary Islands herbarium of 
the late Rev. R. P. Murray. This is estimated to contain about 
1,000 sheets, exclusive of duplicates, and will usefully supplement 
the older collections from the same group. 
The Asiatic plants formed an unusually large proportion of those 
received during the year, and included over 2,000 sheets from tha 
Philippines, 900 from Borneo, and 800 from Yunnan. 
e botanical collections formed in the Seychelles during the 
“ Sealark” Expedition, 1908, were communicated by Mr. J. Stanley 
Gardiner, They are estimated to include about 1,100 specimens, 
and should add considerably to our knowledge of the flora, when 
they are worked out. 
Fewer African plants were received than has been usual of late 
years, but several of the collections were from less-known parts of 
the Continent, Among the more important was a set of over 4C0 
numbers collected by Dr. J. M. Dalziel in the Katagum District, 
Northern Nigeria, and one of 360 numbers collected on Zanzibar 
Island by Mr, J, T. Last. 
Research in Jodrell Laboratory in 1908 :— 
le On the Production of Dwarf Male Prothalli in 
Sporangia of Todea. (Ann. Bot., Vol. XXII, pp. 231- 
243, t. 16. 
Boodle, L. A—On the Occurrence of ditferent Types of Hair 
in the Wallflower. (Ann. Bot., Vol. XXIL., pp. 714-716, 
with one Fig. in text, 
[Boodle, L. A.]—Raffia fibre from Madagascar. (Kew Bull, 
1908, 
Massee, G.—« Die-back”® of Peach Shoots, (Kew Bull., 1908, 
) 
[Massee, @.]—Hollow Potatoes, (Kew Bull., 1908, pp. 139- 
140, with one Fig. in text; Journ. Board A gric., 
Vol. XV., pp. 287-288.) 
‘soo G.J—« Gorey Scab” of Potatoes (Spongospora scabies, 
? 
ass.) (Journ. Board Agric., Vol, XV., pp. 592-599, 
with one plate, 
[Massee, G.]—The South African Locust 
Bull., 1908, pp. 197-198, ) 
Massee, G. and Theobald, BV seb hig enemies of the Rose. 
(The National Rose Society, 1908, 84 pp., tt. 1-8, and 
Figs. 1-4), Fungus enemies by G. Massee, Insect 
enemies by F. V. Theobald 
Worsdell, W.0—A § 
Orders of the Ranales. (Ann, Bot. Vo 
682, tt. 32-33, with four Figs. in text.) 
Worsdell, W. C—Internal Phloem in Myristica, (Ann. Bot., 
Woe = _ RP. pein with two Figs, in text.) 
ell, W. C.—The nities of P a, : t. 
Vol. 46, pp. 114-116.) Sy epee ae, 
Fungus. (Kew 
