72 
years, from the Honourable the Secretary for Agriculture, New 
South Wales. A duplicate set of parts 1 to 36 of this work have 
been presented by Mr. Finlay Sanderson. 
The third part of vol. ii. of Trees and Shrubs, edited by C. S. 
Sargent, has been received from the publishers of the work, 
Messrs. Houghton Mifflin Company. A note on this valuable 
publication appeared on p. -382 of the Kew Bulletin for 1911. 
Plantae Ay emer an enumeration of the woody plants collected 
in Western China for the Arnold Arboretum during the years 1907, 
1908, and 1910, by E. H. Wilson, is also edited by Prof. Sargent, 
who has prsiented the first part issued last J uly. 
A sant of Plant-names, by H. L. Gerth van Wijk, a fe 
volume of 1444 pages, has reached va library from the Dutch 
Society of Baio: Haarlem. In this volume the arrangement is 
according to the Latin names, under which are given as far as 
known the oe Ager ic biden and Dutch names. A second 
volume, in whic on names in the languages mentioned 
will be alphabetically wranged ad followed in each” case by the 
Latin mea is in preparation. 
Mr. Antony Gepp have presented a copy of their 
beautifully illustrated work, The Codiaceae of the Siboga gg settee 
Etudes sur la Flore des Districts des Bangala et de ? Uban 
(Congo belge), by E. De Wildeman, has been received from Niavair. 
Misch & Thron of Brussels ; Genes and Development of Sand 
Formations on Marine Coasts, by Pehr Olsson-Seffer, from the 
Board of Directors of Augustana College and Theological Seminary, 
Rock Island, Illinois; Die palaeobotanische Literatur, edited by 
. Jongmans, vol. ii, from the Direction, ’s Rijks He rbarium, 
Leiden ; Papers and Repor ts on Cotton Cultivation Cintarnttiondl 
Association of Tropical Agriculture and Colonial Development), 
by W. R. Dunstan, from the author; Icones Orchidearum Austro- 
Africanarum, by H. Bolus, vol. ii., from Miss L. Kensit; The 
y Se Rubber Industry and Funtumia elastica, aS C, Christy ; 
Orchids for everyone, by H. Curtis, from — As We Hill; 
the second part of Dr. Gliick’s Biologise he u d-morphologische 
Untersuchungen iiber Wasser-und Sutin retatian from Dr. O. V. 
Darbishire 
Mr. W. Botting Hemsley has presented Chloris rage toed 
Argentina, by C. M. Hicken, a - copy of T 
merican Species of Panicum, by A. S. a and eee 
Chase, and El Jardin Botdnico de Buenos Aires, by: C. Thays. 
A second copy of the last named work has also been received from 
the author. 
The Physiography of the River Nile and its Basin, by H. G. Lyons, 
has been presented by the Director General of the Survey Depari- 
ment, Egypt. 
Treatises on Algae by M.H. Foslie, Madame Paul Lashes, 
and C. J. F. auntie and other papers have been received 
from their authors, amongst whom may be mentioned Dr. V. F. 
Brotherus, Dr. C, C. Hosseus, Mrs. Sepa terae E Messrs. 
G. Massee, F. Theissen, H.S. Thompson, and Dr. Karl Rechinger, - 
the publications appearing under their names in the supplement to- 
