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Mr, EDGAR WILLIAM FOSTER, a member of the gardening 
staff of the oral Botanic Gardens, has been appointed, on the 
recommendation of Kew, by the Secretary of State for the 
Colonies, Curator of the Botanic Station, Lagos. 
Visitors during 1900.—The number of persons who visited the 
Royal Gardens cueing the year 1900 was 1,111,024. That for 
1899 was 1 197,565. Theaverage, 1890-99, was 1 A19, 755. The total 
number on Sundays was 181, 772, and on pein days 623,252. The 
maximum number on any o ne day was 80,723, on June ‘4, and the 
smallest 47, on February 15. "The total number on Sundays varied 
ae from that a the previous — while the aggregate attendance 
week-days was considerably les: 
The detailed 1 monthly returns are ‘given below :— 
January 14,015 
February 16,679 
March 31,107 
pri 146,623 
May 114,404 
June 240,715 
Ju 172,588 
A 163,585 
September 125,557 
October 51,930 
ovember ... ze ay ee 
December ... oa ae ven IDO e 
_ Kew Bulletin—The extreme pressure of the demands of 
important Government work has made it necessary to suspend 
for a time the ay ei of the Kew Bulletin. It will now be 
resumed. The volume for 1899 will shortly be issued. That for 
1900 is in preparation 
Botanical Magazine for December.—Dendrobium spectabile is an 
extraordinarily fine species from New Guinea and the Solomon 
Islands. Its flowers, which are borne in a la ceme, are three 
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prominent bal f glands. flowers are SEE ylie 
with streaks of purple on the standard, and a re in erect 
terminal racemes specimen figured was sent to Kew by 
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A. K. Bulley, Esq., in — aS eee at Neston, Cheshire, it is 
hardy a ic 
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represented in the Succulent House at Kew by a female plant 
with a stem eighteen inches high, a tuft of bares six feet in 
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