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ing the 200tli Anniversary of the Foundation of the Imperial 

 Botanic Garden of Peter the Great, at St. Petersburg, as the 

 representative of the Eojal Botanic Gardens, Kew'(see K,B, 



1913, p. 243). 



Mr, R. A. Rolfe. Assistant in the Herbarium. — To visit the 

 Quinquennial Exhibition at Ghent and the Brussels Herbarium. 



Mr. J. Hutchinson, Assistant for Africa. — For the purpose of 

 examining types of African plants in the Herbaria at Paris, 

 Brussels, Berlin, &c. 



Mr. A. D. Cotton, Assistant in the Herbarium. — To study the 

 cryptogamic vegetation of Blakeney Point, Norfolk. 



The Keeper of the Museums. — For the purpose of attending 

 the meeting of the Museums' Association at Hull. 



Mr. J. H. Holland, Assistant in the Museums. — In a visit to 

 Truro in connection with forestry exhibits at the Bath and West 

 and Southern Counties Show. 



Mr. W. Dallimore, Assistant in the Museums. — For taking part 

 in the excursion of the Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society to 

 Switzerland to study Swiss forestry methods. Also for a 

 visit to Cornwall to inspect various timbers offered for the 

 Forestry Museum by Mr. Heginald Rogers, Falmouth, and to 

 study the bulb industry of the Scilly Islands (see K.B. 1913, 



p. 171). 



Museums. — Many interesting products have been added to the 

 collections during the past year, the more important of which 

 have already been recorded in the Bulletin. 



All available duplicates have been distributed to various 

 institutions, including the following : — Hartley Laboratories, 

 Liverpool University; Royal Agricultural College, Cirencester; 

 Botanic Garden, Oxford; Municipal Museums, Hull, etc. 



An exhibit was prepared for the Forestry Section of the Bath 

 and West and Southern Counties Show held at Truro. 



As in past j^ears the Museum Staff has been fully occupied in 

 determining various products submitted by Scientific Institu- 

 tions, Commercial Firms, etc., and in furnishing general inform- 

 ation on their properties, uses, references to literature, etc. 



The assistance of an additional Museum Preparer has greatly 

 facilitated the preparation of material for Museum lY., and much 

 progress has been made in developing this Museum. Two addi- 

 tional wall cases have been added during the year, and it is much 

 to be desired that the remaining cases needed to complete the 



Museum may 

 The wort of generally impro 

 gone on steadily. In Museum 



permanent 



has been completed. The relabelling of the contents of this 

 Museum has been continued. 



Individual members of the staff attended the Bath and West 

 and Southern Counties Show held at Truro, the meeting of the 

 Museums Association at Hull, and the annual excursion of the 

 Royal Scottish Arboricultural Society to Switzerland, 



