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of ends. At Wahu they used to put up a tower of bamboo seaffold- 
ing about 50 ft. high, with a platform on top. Sometimes one man, 
but usually two, stood on this platform, their hands protected by 
ormous hide cloves and their bodies by hide aprons, plaiting the 
ie out of bamboo strips. The strips are prepared by men below 
and bundles of them are handed up as required. As the rope is 
plaited it passes down through a hole in the middle of the platform. 
When these bamboo ropes are worn out they are dried, cut into 
lengths of about 3 feet, and used as torches or for fuel. Most of 
these ropes are cored; sometimes the core is made of bamboo 
strips laid side by side; sometimes twisted, and were, in the best, of 
round sennit like the outside. 
oi Ay 2h, 
Presentations to Museums. Le following miscellaneous specimens 
Price’s Patent Candle Gan bids —Series of products from the 
Cocoa Nut and African Oil Palm 
Mr. J. Burtt Davy, F.L.S., De partment of Agriculture, Trans- 
Mr Fe re of rubber from yprmeee stellifera, prepared by 
r 
W. Yates, Santa Barbara, ania —Photographic 
por a of the late Dr. Lorenzo Gordin 
Mr. 8. T. Dunn, F.L.S.—Sheaths of a ea known as * Maw 
Chuk,’ used for paper-making and as a covering for cushions, &c. 
Also sheaths of a Bamboo known as ‘ Lak Chuk, used for basket- 
work and as wrapping for small parcels 
Linnean Society of London.—A ‘collection of miscellaneous 
vegeiable products, ine samples of —_ fruits, &c., from 
the collection of the «SW Bily 
r. W. H. Johnson, FE. L.S., Dhecuies of f Agriculture, Companhia 
de Moctenbinns, Beira, Portuguese e East Africa.—Section of stem 
of the ‘ Makruss’ or ‘ Zimbiti’ tree (Androstachys Johnsonii), See 
Kew Bull. No. 5, 1909, p. 201. 
Acme Flooring and Paving Co., Ltd., Victoria — —Flooring 
blocks of various woods, including ‘Jarrah, Oak, 
Messrs. John Jackson = Co., West Croydon. — Plants ‘of Black 
and White varieties of Min 
Mr. H. N, Ridley, F.R. s: ’ Dicector, Botanic Gardens, Singapore. 
—Fruits of Raphia Hooker ce Fe 
Dr. FE. Hei. Graillemard, —— Cambridge.— Box 
of Birch bark from Central Kamschatka. patch of 
monument erected to the memory of Rumphius in Amboina 
a. DM, fh 
pena nicnanserei 
Revision of Alexander Prior’s Jamaica Collection. —In the a 
Bulletin for 1903, p. 32, Dr. Alexander Prior’s bequest of ~ 
herbarium and botanical librar ry to Kew was recorded. — 
reference was made to his large collection of Jamaica plants 1 made 
in 1849 and 1850. As these plants were not always authentically : 
