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From the Corean Section the collection of miscellaneous vegetable 
products was secured, including fibres, food grains, tobacco, ginseng, 
and a series of timbers. 
The Formosan Section contained a particularly interesting and 
varied series of products. Among those especially desired and 
obtained for the Museums the following may be noted :—Stem of 
the Bird-lime tree (Trochodendron aralioides); stem and rubber of 
Ecdysanthera utilis; Rice paper products consisting of stems, pith, 
sheets of pith prepared for the use of artists and for the manufacture 
of artificial flowers, and plaits formed of the pith for use in millinery ; 
samples of tea, sugar cane, various fibres and fabrics; some fine 
examples of hats in imitation of the Panama hat, made from the 
prepared leaves of the Areca Nut Palm (Areca Catechu), and from 
a species of Pandanus, and some hats of the “ Taiko” rush, a darker 
coloured material, so far undetermined. 
The Manchurian collection of Agricultural Products containing 
much material of value for the Museum collections was secured, 
together with several oil vessels used in the Soy bean industry, 
samples of bean cake and a coloured photograph to illustrate the 
shipping of bean cake from Dairen. These latter were presented 
in which Soy is packed for export. 
The Japanese Educational Section presented several cases of 
insects injurious to plant life, together with some examples of 
abnormal growths and thirty small sections of timber exhibited by 
the Morioka Higher School of Agriculture and Forestry ; some 
interesting photographs and a book of impressions of type leaves of 
Morus alba from the Osaka Agricultural School were also presented. 
Two cases of plant diseases from the University of Tohoku, 
Sapporo, were at the request of Prof. Miyabe likewise transferred 
to Kew. 
Research in Jodrell Laboratory in 1910 :— 
Bancroft, C. K.—Researches on the Life-history of Parasitic 
Fungi. (Ann. Bot., Vol. XXIV., pp. 359-372, t. 24.) 
Bancroft, 0. K—A Disease of the Cacao Plant. (Kew Bull. 
1910, pp. 93-95.) 
Bancroft, C. K.—The Brown Rot of Tomato. (Journ. Board 
Agric., Vol. XVI., p. 1012.) 
Boodle, L: A—Gralls on an Indian Grass. (Kew Bull., 1910, 
pp- 69-73, with one plate.) 
Georgevitch, P.— Bacillus thermophilus vranjensis. (Archiv fiir 
Hygiene, Bd. LX XIL., pp. 201-210.) 
Georgevitch, P.—Preliminary note on Apospory and Apogamy 
in Trichomanes Kaulfussii, Hk. et Grev. (Ann. Bot., 
Kaulfussii, Hk. et Grey. (Jahrb. fiir wiss. Bot., Bd. 
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