27 



ul^T? l ™l*J n 1 : eCent 7 "™> J™"*"" Epical African 



collections 



ons were received, none of them, however, of anv srreit 



ST J M m Dfl,Sr n T da l iUt ^ yt »*" ^ -emionn! 

 * \v i! alz J, els collection from Northern Nigeria and tint 

 formed by Dr. p. C. Wellman in Benguella. 



A noteworthy addition to the European collections at Kew is 



he set of !>00 plants of Thrace and Macedonia, acq ire I by 



purchase from the collector, Dr. L. Adainovic. } 



debt r e,i e ?n a ^ 0nS R t0 l he L l brary durin ff ^Oe.-The Library is i»- 

 »,„S? r Bentham Trustees for the following additions — 



£^\2^W' a %K* of which two series » each consi8t ^ 



nave bin ^ be ^: tlful C ° l0Ure(1 P lates ' and a P art » f a »*^ 



Of lite ° T "!£ Th i e C ° mplete W ° rk WU1 COQ8i « t 0f 8ix **S 



?L„? M , ; d ^- thm V0hlme 0f text «"^ Florileaonn amplis- 

 colourtf »f ^^^^631, in which all the figures have been 

 't"'' ; + l n ' ltwould a PPear, inaccurately ; on plate 10 of the 

 second part there is a figure of a Monkshood, under the name of 



vea'XT^ iZ\tfk im ^ flowers 0f which are colonre ' 1 bri s ht 



h« nl w i 020 edltl0n ' which is also at Kew ' the flowers of 



W ,£ are Col ? ured blue - Bound with the Florilegium were 



entir!ulJif ry . S + im ! lar *° those of Sweert's work in execution, 



rSiw * T\° V Clue to their ori ^ in - The y form ' however 

 LiTtttt o °K% ] £ e * of the Theatrum Florae (Pritzel, Thes. 

 IfiooirJV n % 10 ' 8o; >)> bnt whether of Mathoniere's edition of 

 ftP^i * irons s edition of 1633 cannot be determined, as they 

 7V/™: *?n e T ^editions. The work was issued without text. 



o/Eu ?n -C^'*" Desif J n in Ital, J' anfl the continuation 

 Twi? a? Periodical publications were also presented by the 

 oentnam Irustees. 



xJIm**!? * Ha ? S Schinz h as continued to present the numerous 

 publications of the Botanical Museum of the Universitv of 



rf£« 7f 1D cludin 2 Thellung, Die Gnttiwg Lepidium, and seven 

 d ssertations. From Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., a 

 runner selection of pamphlets from his own library were 

 received, as well as Sir Kenelme Digbv's curious work 

 taming the discourses Of the Powder of Sympathy and »f the 

 Vegetation of Plants, 1669 ; and the Report of His Majesty's 

 j°™ mi ?*l oner s M the International Exhibition at Saint Louis, 



R 'V- if Dlrector of the Botanic Garden, Upsala, Professor F. 

 K. Kjellman, presented a copy of the Botaniska Studier, a series 

 ot memoirs written and dedicated to him by his students. From 

 tne same source were received -.—Bosander, Studier ofver Blad- 

 mossomas Organisation, and Witte, Till de Sevemka Alfvar- 



rcuiternas Ekologi. A number of papers, elaborated at the 

 Botanical Museum, Hamburg, have been contributed by the 

 Director of that establishment. Sir J. D. Hooker, G.C.S.I., has 

 presented the continuation of several periodicals and serials as in 

 former years. From Mr. George Nicholson the following have 

 been received : Loddiges, Orchidaceae in the collection of Conrad 

 Loddiges and Sons [1844] ; H. Mann, Catalogue of the Phae- 

 tiogamous Plants of the United States, ed. 2 ; H. llaurer, Das 

 Beerenobst, ed. 2 ; C. A. Strati, Esrni do Classification et det- 



con- 



encon 



