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portraits mark the close of this period of companionship and 
collaboration. That of oie is was presented to Kew by Sir 
Himalayan Journals but that portraits of the joint authors of the 
Flora Indica hang side by side in the building in which their work 
was done 
Presentation = Chinese Drawings.—Under the will of the late 
Mrs. Mary Anne Robb (Miss Boulton of Tew Park, Oxon) a very 
interesting ae of twenty-three drawings in water colour of 
Chinese Conifers has been received at Kew for the Museums. 
These drawings were executed by a native Chinese artist who was 
engaged by the celebrated patel: Robert Fortune during his last 
journey at the request of Mrs. Robb as she wished to have sketches 
of the new trees, found by Fortune, drawn on the spot. The artist 
stipulated that he would only make pictures if allowed to put a 
human figure in each. 
Mrs. Robb, who was descended from Mathew Boulton, the 
engineer and partner of James Watt, was possessed of great 
intellectual gifts and wide interests. 
mong her more intimate friends were Francis Galton and the 
Hon. Charles Ellis. She took a keen interest in gardening and at 
her garden called Golden Field at Liphook she indulged in the 
cultivation of flowering shrubs which was one of oa hobbies, 
corresponded frequently with Kew on horticultural matters. 
_ The drawings are detailed in the list appended. One of them, 
no. 21 representing the Maidenhair tree, Gingko biloba (Salisburia 
adiantifolia) is already well known to botanists as it has been repro- 
uced to seg a plate for the paper on the Maidenhair tree written 
by Prof. C. Seward and published in the Annals of Botany, 
vol. xiv., 00d p- 110, Pl. viii. 
1. “Tsung le shu” (Hemp erie —— id 15-20 
2. “* Peen pih shoo,” Thuya sp 60 
3. “Sung shoo,” Pinus Cocmth ai -_ is 3, ane 
4. “ Lo sung shoo,” Podocarpus sp. si ee 80 
5. “Shuy pih shoo, Cephalotaxus Fortune: 30 
6. “ Kin tseen sung i ee Coin pine) Taten “p 70 
7. “ Water Pine,” ‘ 60 
8. “ Lan pan shu,” Juniperus ee ite .-. 20-30 
9. “ Nyun par shu,” cies us Sp. . “ae --. 60-70 
10. Cupressus funebris 70 
Ade — een sung shu ” (Golden Coin pine) Abies 
empye 
| ies aaa ohiae _ shu,” Juniperus er ne 20 
