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Presentations to Museums. — Tlie following miscellaneous 

 specimens have been received in addition to those previously 

 recorded in the Bulletin : — 



The Resident Commissioner, Tulagi, British Solomon 

 Islands. — Gnm copal from Agatliis Tnacroi^hylla from the 

 Island of Vanikoro. 

 Mr. R. Fox, Falmouth. — Section of trunk of Sophora 



tetrapfera. 

 Lady Smyth, Ashton Court, Bristol. — Photographs of forest 



scenery on the Ashton Court Estate, 

 Mr. Campbell P. Ogilvie, Finsbury Circus, London. — 



Railway sleeper, wood for fencing and tanning extract of 



Quebracho Colorado [Quehrachia Loventzii) from the 



Argent irje. 

 United States Department of Agriculture, Washington, 



D.C. — Fruits of Diospyros Lotus j Zizyphus sativa, etc. 

 Director of Agriculture, Peradeniya, Ceylon. — Stems of 



Iledycliiuvi coronarnim. 

 Superintendent, Royal Gunpowder and Small Arms Factory, 



Enfield Lock. — Sections of wood of Salia: fragiJis^ Alnus 



glntinosay and Rhamnus Frangula^ together with samples 



of charcoal prepared from same. 

 Messrs. Ide & Christie, Mark Lane, London.- — Paper made 



from bamboo. Tonkin. 

 Dr. F. D. Drewitt, Kensington. — Lobster pot from Cornwall 



made partially of the wood of Tamarisk. 

 Mr. H. St. George Gray, Taunton Castle, Somerset. — 



Sample of Alder wood from Roman site^ Barrington, 



Somerset. 



Messrs. Dalton and Young, Fenchurch Street, London. — 

 Sample of Yalonia (Quercus Aegilops) from Smyrna. 



Mr. E. D. Merrill, Bureau of Science, Manila. — Fruit of 

 Strychnos Ignatii from Samar. 



Mr. E. A. Lee, Liphook, Hants. — Transverse section of wood 

 of Cednis Libani, 



Mr. T. Carter, Manhead, near Exeter. — "Well-marked section 

 of w^ood of Quercus Ilej^. 



Mr. C. Wakely, East Anglia Institute of Agriculture. 



Section of wood of Koelreuteria paniculata. 

 Mr. F. Evans, Southern Nigeria. — Fruits of Cocas nucifera 



collected in Panama. 



Professor Dr. van Iterson, junr,. Delft. — Fruits of Pseudo- 

 phoenix xinifeTa from Haiti. 



J. M. H. 



Research in Jodrell Laboratory in 1913 : 



[Boodle, L. A.] — The Root and Haustorium of Buttonia 



Qiatnlensis. (Kew Bull., 1913, pp. 240-242, with two iio^s. in. 



text.) 



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[Massee, G.] — Additions to the Wild Tauna and Flora of tlie 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew: XIV. {Kew Bull., 1913, pp- 

 195-199, witli one plate.) 



