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A seventh volume of Mr. W. Foster's work, The English 

 Factories in India, dealing with the period 1642-45; Colloquies 

 on the Simples and Drugs of India ^ by Garcia da Orta, translated 

 by Sir ClerDents Markham from Count Ficalho's edition pub- 

 lished in Lisbon in 1895 ; and Notes on the Agricultural Condi- 

 tions and Problems of the United Provinces, by W. H< Moreland, 

 have been received from the Secretary of State for India. Garcia 

 da Orta's work was originally published in Portuguese at Goa in 

 1563, and this edition is now extremely rare. It is the third 

 book issued from the Press in India. 



The third volume of Die palaeobotanische Literatur, edited 

 by W. J. Jongmans, and Mededeelingen van ^s Rijks Herbarium, 

 Leiden, Nos. 8-14, have been received from the Director of the 

 Herbarium named. 



Seven copies of Supplement IV. to the Index Kewensis, which 

 was published on November 13, have been presented by the Dele- 

 gates of the Clarendon Press, Oxford. This Supplement includes 

 the names published during the years 1906 to 1910, together with 

 others of earlier dates which were omitted from the original 

 Index and the previous Supplements. 



An addition of much usefulness is the fourth volume of the 

 Catalogue of the Books . . . • in the British Museum [Natural 

 History), which now extends as far as Snyder. This, with two 

 copies of the Catalogue of the Plants collected by Mr, and Mrs. 

 P. A. Talbot in the Oban District, South Nigeria, prepared by 

 A, B. Rendle, E. G. Baker, S. Moore and others, has been contri- 

 buted to the library by the Trustees of the British Museum.. 



From Sir Frank Crisp, Bart., has been received a copy of Les 

 Plantes des montagnes et des rochers : leur acclimatation et leur 

 culture dans les jardins, by H. Correvon ; from Mr. J . C. 

 Williams, G. Forrest's Field Notes; from Col. D. Mills, H. van 

 Heurck's Prodrome de la Flore des Algues Tnarines des Isles 

 Anglo-Normandes^ etc.; from Mr. Clement Reid, Illustrations of 

 Fossil Plants, prepared under the supervision of J. Lindley and 

 W. Hutton, and published by the North of England Institute of 

 Mining and Mechanical Engineers in 1877^ and a copy of his 

 little book on Submerged Forests. 



Messrs. Scott, Greenwood and Co. have sent Insecticides, fungi- 

 cides and weedkillers, by E- Bourcart, and the third edition of 

 A manual of Agricultural Chemistry, by H. Ingle; Messrs. Long- 

 mans, Green & Co. and the authors have sent copies of Planting 

 in Uganda, by E. Brown and H. H. Hunter; Messrs. Houghton 

 Mifflin Company, volume ii, part 4 of Trees and Shrubs, edited 

 by Prof. C. S. Sargent, who has presented the third part of 

 Plantae Wilsonianae, of which he is also the editor; and the pub- 

 lishers, Messrs. F. Tempsky and G. Freytag, Unsere Freiland- 

 Nadelholzer, by Ernst Graf Silva Tarouca and others. 



Sir William T. Thiselton-Dyer, K.C.M.G., has presented his 

 notebook on Carnivorous Plants, including his studies of the 



glands of N 

 address to 



epenthes, which was prepared for Sir 

 the British Association at Belfast i 



J. D. Hooker's 

 in 1874, and a 



volume of 28 pamphlets on Carnivorous Plants by various 

 authors. 



