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which occurred at the village of Adonikia, Sierra Leone, on the 

 3rd of February last. Major Cramer spent about five weeks at Kew 

 luring June and July of last year, when he received instruction in 

 systematic and economic botany with special reference to; the 

 colony of Sierra Leone. He was a keen, and intelligent observer 

 and had acquired an extensive knowledge of the natural products 

 of the colony. The instruction he received here, added to his 

 already accumulated information, had fitted him to do useful 

 work in the interests of the colony which, owing to his untimely 

 death, has not been able to be realised. 



News has been received at Kew of the 

 .io«„u, a. o« lJW muer iaso, of Mr. W. U. Buttenshaw, M.A., B.Sc, 

 the recently appointed Economic Hotanist for the Bengal Agri- 

 cultural Department. Mr. Buttenshaw was appointed, in 1899, 

 Lecturer in Agriculture for Jamaica (K.B., 1899, p. 220) In 190'i 

 he was transferred to the Imperial Department of Agriculture for 

 die West Indies as Scientific Assistant. This post he relinquished 



ll hJ' d r I P i ° f ? IS } ; ear t0 take Up the lndian appointment. 

 He had only been a few days in Calcutta when he fell a victim to 



heat-stroke. Mr. Buttenshaw had done much good work in the 



2ft£:S2r3? 2£«Lft* * ^ A age of 30, has 



cut short a career of much promise. 



rf«2 *ofDl2L , hG E 5 h8h Elm (2*»«« campestrU, L.),-The 



been 2? 'rffft? \i \ VhCeTn the British Fl °™ *»* Ion ^ 

 Sttle mS ?™d it I** that ft Was never fo ™ d to produce 

 to he accomnlM^ i i ^ et ™ ti ™ in the British Isles appeared 



sup^T vtw S it^TnTlien T^T ^ ^V 



fore'tn to ,Lf ^ in ltself ' absolutely prove that a tree is 

 RosMcach ( X£? W , h6re j* grows - A fa ^iliar instance is the 

 many years S I" n *T^ L '>' which had been known for 

 I) armi seeds L7*! "I? CU tivated > befor * it was discovered 

 on the* Sk^i w haVe been f0lind on P^nts growing wild 



p^^^^CIJ^ they are «^** «s 



except by suckers Thai I St the p0wer to reproduce itself 

 produced [so . oS n ^„ii 5?\ ho ^ ever » as in the ca se of the Elm, are 

 essentia fo/the i 7 ^- the P roduct i<>n of seeds is no longer 

 Ulmmcamllti* ?. er P etuatl0n of the species. With regard to 

 seed /rSand "n^ V S ^ reCOrd of its havin & produced fertile 

 from Lady Ray wf H **> ? f ^^nication^received at Kew 



seedlings had ll^t tZM'^ '*?' * ,ar * e number of y0Ung 

 the question Tppeafed to f gr ° UndS at Teding PIace ' in EsS6X ' 



accordingly P^ZT^tX^Voi . mVeStigati ° n - A ™« was 



cofent^^hwere rTl?/ / eed ! ings ' man ^ sfci11 carrying the 



h ^ps, garden boroW, • be , fou ^ on such places as rubhish 



i , & araen borders, in workmen's gardens and even in the 



