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‘Magelhan Straits, this time homeward bound. A brief account of 
the voyage of “La Magicienne” by Savatier was published in 
Archives de Médecine Navale, vol. xxxiii (1880), pp. 5-35. : 
After a short service in Senegambia, Savatier retired as “ médecin 
en chef de la marine,” and died at Saint-Georges d’Oleron on 
August 27, 1891. 
XVII—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
The designation of the post of Principal Assistant in the Royal 
Botanic Gardens has been changed by authority of the Treasury 
to Assistant Keeper. Mr. G. Massrr, F.L.S., hitherto a 
Principal Assistant in the Herbarium, and Mr. C. H. WricHt, 
whose appointment as successor to Dr. Stapf was notified in Kew 
Bulletin, 1909, p. 24, will rank as Assistant Keepers. 
The President of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries has 
been pleased to appoint Mr. N. BE. Brown, A.L.S., hitherto an 
Assistant in the Herbarium, and Mr. L. A. Boop, F.LS., 
hitherto Assistant in the Jodrell Laboratory, Assistant Keepers. 
_—__.. 
Mr. W. DALLIMORE, who entered Kew as a young gardener in 
1891, and has since 1896 been Foreman in the Arboretum, has been 
«ain by the President of the Board of Agriculture and 
isheries an Assistant in the Museums. 
Dr, F. E. Frirscx, who has filled with much acceptance the 
post of Lecturer in Physics and Chemistry at Kew since 
March 8, 1903, has found it necessary, owing to the pressure of 
other engagements, to resign this duty. Dr. P. Haas, Lecturer 
on Chemistry at St. Thomas’s Hospital, has been appointed to 
succeed Dr. Fritsch. 
We earn that Mr. J. B. Carruruers, F.L.S., formerly 
Assistant Director of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon, and subse- 
quently Director of Agriculture in the Federated Malay States, 
has been appointed Assistant Director of the Department of 
Agriculture, Trinidad. 
We also learn that Mr. F. A, Stockpas, B.A., F.L.S., since 
Lecturer in Agriculture to the Imperial 
Botanical Magazine for March.— Cycas Micholitzii, Dyer, was in- 
troduced in 1904 from Annam by Messrs. F. Sander & Sons, 
through their collector Mr. W. Micholitz. The species, of which 
there are examples in the living collection at Kew, is remarkable 
