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Sir Frank Crisp has presented the Flora von Thiiringen und den 
eee ERA ie by J. C. Zenker, D.F. oe von Schlechtendal 
and ethal, the drawings by E. Schenk. The work is in 
twelve Baal” ee! volumes and filaden "1439 well-executed 
plates. Fleurs des champs et des bois des hates et ge murs, by H. 
Correvon, has also been presented by Sir Frank 
A handsome quarto volume entitled: A mae on the Pines of 
Bu ees has been received from the authors, Messrs. R. T. Baker 
and H. G. Smith. The “ Pines” of this work belong to the eleven 
different genera of the Coniferae inhabiting Australia, the largest 
of which is the genus Callitris, with 18 species. Pinus itself is not 
represented in Australia. The present work forms a companion 
volume to that issued in 1902 on the Eucalypts, which were dealt 
with by the same authors, who kindly gave a copy to the Kew library. 
Dr, Auguste Chevalier has just published under the title Sudania, 
the first volume of an enumeration of the plants collected by him 
in Tropical Africa, during the years 1898 to 1910. The determina- 
tions are in numerical order from no. 1 to no. 12 ,000, and have 
been supplied by various botanists. Only 35 copies of the work, 
which has been reproduced by fhcotacky Th have been issued. A 
copy has reached Kew from Dr. Chevalier, also the sixth fascicle of 
his work, Les Végétaux utiles de 1 Afrique tropicale. 
Die Vegetation des Untersees (Bodensee), by EK. Baumann, and 
Beitrige zur vergleichenden Anatomie und zur "5 stematth der Con- 
naraceen, by G. Rsnenen ae: are dissertations presented to the 
library by Dr. Hans Schin 
Lieut.-Col. J. J. Wood, I.M.S., has presented the manuscript, 
with additional notes, of his treatise on the Plants of Chutia Nagpur, 
which forms vol. ii. no. 1, of the Records of the Botanical Survey 
of India; also an interleaved and copiously annotated copy of the 
published work 
The Index to the second edition of Iinuma Yokusai’s Somoku- 
Dusets has been added to the library by Mr. T. Makino, through 
the kind offices of Dr. B. Hayata. - 
From the University Press, Berkeley, California, has been 
received a copy of Dr. W. L. Jepson’s Silva of California, a hand- 
some quarto volume including 85 plates and 3 maps. It forms 
vol. ii. of the Memoirs of the University of California. A copy of 
Dr. Jepson’s Flora of Western tage California, second edition, 
nee: been received from the autho 
much enlarged edition of the Farm Weeds of Canada, by 
G. WD Clark and J. Fletcher, elaborately bound, has been presented 
by the Canadian Government Exhibition Commissioner at the 
Festival of Empire held at the Crystal Palace during the summer. 
This work, which contains 76 coloured plates of considerable merit, 
must be of great value to those for whom it is designed. 
Mr. J. H. Maiden has sent parts 12 and 13 of bie. Critical Revision 
of the genus Eucalyptus, and parts 2 and 3 of his Illustrations of 
various Australian societies’ journals. The issues for the year of 
this author’s Forest Flora of New South Wales, which now extends 
to part 5 of vol. v., have been received, as were the issues of previous 
