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In addition to the numbers mentioned above, about 8000 
specimens have been received on loan from various institutions, 
chiefly for use in the preparation of the Flora of Tropical Africa 
and the Flora Capensis. 
Presentations to the Library during 1910.—One of the more im- 
portant of the contributions made to the Library during the year is 
a copy of the rare and valuable work on roses by Miss Mary 
Lawrance, for which the establishment is indebted to the Bentham 
Trustees. Its fnll title is: A collection of Roses from Nature ; 
published by Miss Lawrance, Teacher of Botanical Drawing. The 
title-page bears the date 1799, but the plates, of which there should 
be 90, in addition to a coloured frontispiece, are variously dated 
from 1796 to 1799. Perfect copies of the work appear to be very 
rare, and the Kew copy is deficient in the frontispiece and plate 1. 
The volume is a nearly square folio standing 19 inches high. The 
coloured drawings, though somewhat adversely criticised by 
Redouté, “ parce que, dans un grand nombre d’occasions, le peintre 
a sacrifié la vérité aux formes pittoresques,” have considerable 
merit as works of art. 
The Bentham Trustees have also presented a copy of Der 
orientalisch-indianische Kunst- und Lust-Gértner, by G. Meister, 
published in Dresden in 1692. It is a small quarto volume con- 
taining many curious observations on fruit and fruit-culture, amongst 
other things, made by the author during his travels to Japan 
through India, Siam, Java, &c. From the same source have 
been received the following: Wiéissenschaftliche Ergebnisse der 
deutschen Tiefsee-Expedition auf dem Dampfer Valdivia, 1898-1899, 
Bd. ii. Teil iti. Das Kapland, by R. Marloth, Jena, 1908 ; two 
copies of the fifth volume of The Trees of Great Britain and 
Ireland, by H. J. Elwes and A. Henry; Nova Acta Academiae 
C. L.-C. G. Naturae Curiosorum, vols. 85-89, in continuation ; 
16 volumes comprising travels in South America and the little 
known Flora de Colombia by Santiago Cortes, Bogoté, 1897 ; and 
the issues for the year of nearly thirty serial or periodical works, 
continuing sets which in most cases have been added to the library 
by the Bentham Trustees. 
The Trustees of the British Museum have presented the third 
volume (L—O) of the fine Catalogue of the Library of the British 
Museum (Natural History), and the first volume of the Flora of 
Jamaica, by W. Fawcett and A. B. Rendle, This volume includes 
the Orchidaceae. 
Through the kind offices of Mr. R. T. Tower, C.V.O., H.M. 
Minister, Mexico, numerous additions of Mexican publications have 
been received from the Acting Secretary of Fomento, Mexico, and 
the Librarian of the Instituto Médico N: acional de México. These 
include Materia medica mexicana (1904), and <Abrégé de matiere 
médicale du Mexique (1909), by F. Altamirano ; Manual terapeutico 
de plantas mexicanas (1909), by L. Flores; Curso de historia de 
drogas (1902), by J. M. Noriega; and Estudios de historia natural 
(1904), by J. Ramirez. 
