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Mr. J. M. Whistler, Upper Blackwood, Western Australia.— 
Photographs of Grass-gum trees (Xanthorrhoea spp.). 
Messrs. A. & G. Paterson, Ltd., Banchory.—Planks of 
Douglas Fir, Larch, and Abies nobilis. 
Mr. F. Du Cane Godman, London, 8.W.—Section of wood of 
the old tree of Dracaena Draco of Teneriffe. : 
Rev. Canon Ellacombe, Bitton Vicarage, Bristol.—A collection 
of photographs of trees, &c. 
Earl of Yarborough, Brocklesby Park, Lincolnshire.— Fifteen 
sections of burrs from home-grown trees. 
Lt.-Col. J. J. Wood, Richmond, Surrey—Painting of Flam- 
boyant (Poinciana regia). 
Mrs. Ward, Cambridge.—Portrait of the late Prof. Harry 
Marshall Ward, F.R.S. 
Mr. H. J. Elwes, F.R.S., Colesborne, Gloucestershire.— 
Sections of Tree Fern stems, wood of Diospyros Melan- 
oxylon, and basket made of leaves of Alpinia nutans by 
the Aborigines, Formosa. . 
Miss Wright, Kayhough, Kew Gardens.— W ood and herbarium 
specimen of Atlanthus glandulosa. 
Messrs. W. T. Elmore & Son, Ltd., London, E.C.—Examples 
of Willow basket-work. 
Lt.-Col. Ratton, Blackheath—A collection of drawings of 
fruit and fruit trees of the Malay States made by the late 
Surgeon ~- Major Ratton of the Madras Arm’ 
drawings include Durian (Durio Zibethinus), Betel Nut 
(Areca Catechu), Jack Fruit (Artecarpus integrifolia), 
Bread Fruit (Artocarpus incisa). 
doM. H 
Forest Economic Products of India.*—This book, the outcome of 
a recommendation by the Committee of the Franco-British Exhibi- 
tion of 1908, gives information regarding the various forest products 
of India, It is not a complete guide to all such products, but only 
to the more valuable and important. 
A few reproductions of photographs of the commoner species and 
a map showing the general distribution of forests are added. 
* Commercial Guide to the Forest E . Fadia by 
RB. 8. Pearson, F.L.S = conomie Products o a, 
ide 
. Economist at the Forest Research Institute, Dehra Dun. 
