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Brittou and others have been presented. A farther instalment 

 of K. Fiebrig's Paraguay plants from Alto-Parana has been 

 purchased through Mr. P. Weber. 



Presentations to the Library during 1913.— The Bentham 



Trustees have presented a copy of the scarce little work on agri- 

 culture by Pierre de Quiqueran, translated from Latin by F. Niny 

 de Claret, and published at Tournon in 1616. Its title is : La 

 noiivelle Agricultuvey ou instruction gene rale iwur ensementcf 

 toutes sortes d^Arbres fruictiers, avec V usage et proprietz 

 cViceux. . • . avec divers traictez des couleurs et naturcl des 

 Animaux. The original Latin edition was published in Paris in 

 1551, after Quiqueran's death. 



The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland^ by H. J. Elwes and 

 A. Henry, has been completed during the year with the issue of the 

 seventh volume and an index to the whole work. The first volume 

 appeared in 1906, and, excepting the prefatory matter and the 

 postscript, the volumes have been paged continuously, terminat- 

 ing at page 2022. Most of the plates, of which there are 412, are 

 reproductions by the Autotype Company of London of very fine 

 photographs of trees remarkable in the majority of instances for 

 their magnificence* Two complete coi^ies of this costly work, 

 which will for all time be a treasury of knowledge dealing with 

 the trees indigenous or cultivated in the British Isles, have been 

 presented by the Bentham Trustees. They have also presented 

 the volumes published during the year of about thirty periodicals, 

 which are forwarded to Kew in exchange for Hoohev^s Icones 



Plantarum, 



The Coviptes Rendus of the Academy of Sciences, Paris, the 



previous issues of which had been received from Sir J. D. Hooker, 



has been continued as a presentation to the library by Lady 



Hooker; and most of the weekly issues of Science for lOlH have 



been contributed by Miss Alice Eastwood of the California 



Academy of Sciences. 



The heirs of the late Dr. Th. Durand have presented a copy of 



the Conspectus Florae Ajricae^ by Dr. Durand and Prof. Hans 

 Schinz. So far as published, this work consists of vol. i. pt. 2, 



and vol. V. 



The publications received from the Botanical Museum of the 

 University of Zurich, through Prof. Hans Schinz, include a^opy 

 of Dr. Thellung's voluminous dissertation La flore adventice de 

 Moiitpellier, Beitrdge znr Kenntnis der Schtveizerfloraj xiii. and 

 xiv., Beitrdge znr Kenntnis der Afrikanischen Flora^ xxv., and 

 the paper by Dr. Schellenberg, Prof. Schinz and Dr. Thellung on 

 the flora of Colombia and the West Indies, extracted from 

 Fuhrmann & Mayor*s Voyage d^ exploration scientifique en 



Colomhie' 



Prof. R. Chodat has presented a number of papers prepared by 

 various workers in the Institute of Botany of the University of 

 Geneva, and a copy of his Mono graphics d'AJgues en cnlture 

 pure, which forms part of the Materiaux pour la fiore crypto- 



gamiqne snisse. 



