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tor, include Malayan Fern Allies, by C. R. W. K. van Alder- 
werelt van Rosenburgh, and Catalogus Herbarii Plantarum in 
orto Bogoriensi cultarum, by I. Beldingh. 
Two further parts of Nova Guinea: Résultats de V Expédition 
scientifique néerlandaise a la Nouvelle Guinée en 1912 e¢ 1913, 
containing Laubmoose, by M. Fleischer, and Ericaceae, Orchida- 
ceae, etc., by J. J. Smith, have been received from the Maat- 
schappij ter Bevordering van het Natuurkundig Onderzoek der 
Nederlandsche Kolonién. 
he Journal and Proceedings of the Asiatic Society of Bengal, 
which, up to the time of his death in December, 8 
sented by Sir J. D. Hooker, is now being received from Major 
A. T. Gage, of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta. 
The two handsome volumes containing Mr. T, F. Cheeseman’s 
Illustrations of the New Zealand Flora have been contributed 
y the Minister of Internal Affairs, New Zealand, through the 
kind offices of the author. The title-pages are dated 1914, but 
there appears to have been some delay in distributing the work, 
for the Kew copy did not arrive till December, 1915. 
erbarium, 
Leiden. It includes 20 plates of photographs of fruits, seeds and 
other plant-remains, the identifications of which are of the 
volume of the Acta Horti Bergiani has been received from the 
Director of the Garden, Dr. R. E. Fries, and the fourth volume 
of Dr. Hayata’s Icones Plantarum Formosanarum, from the 
Director of the Bureau of Productive Industries, Formosa. _ 
Professor Silvanus P. Thompson has given to Kew the copy of 
Sir J. E. Smith’s Compendium of the English Flora, which was 
formerly owned and used by his grandfather, Mr. John Tatham, 
who noted in it the localities of the plants found by him in the 
Settle District. Mr. Tatham’s British Herbarium is now at 
Kew, having been presented by Professor Thompson in 1913. 
The establishment is indebted to the following, among many 
others, for accessions to the library:—-Mr. I. H. Burkill, for 
Notes on experiments on the different kinds of Timber in ordinary 
use in the Straits Settlements, by H. Newton, a scarce tract ; 
Mr. A. D. Cotton, for several publications on Algae; Mr. 
Dallimore, for a copy of The Practical Fruit Gardener, by S. 
Switzer, ed. 2; Mr. J. Ramsbottom, for. the Systematic arrange- 
ment of Australian Fungi, by D. McAlpine; Mr. R. V. fae al 
for a complete set (6 volumes) of the Proceedings of the | ie Lae 
mouth Natural Science Society; the Secretary of Agriculture, 
