A handsome volume and a very important contribution is the 
Pteridografia del Sur de México, by the late Sefior J. N. Rovirosa. 
This has been received from Dr. J. Sanchez and Dr. M. M. Villada, 
University of Zurich, as well as Die fossilen Pflanzenreste des 
glazialen Delta bei Kaltbrunn, &c. (1910), by H. Brockmann- 
erosch, and a dissertation by E. Hess Ueber die Wuchsformen der 
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Sir J. D. Hooker, O.M., G.C.S.I., has presented Landon’s work, 
Lhasa (1905), and the continuation of numerous periodical 
publications. : 
A 
well-bound set of the Revue des Eaux et Foréts, comprising 
volumes 10 to 44 (1874-1905), has been presented by Mr. J. S. 
Gamble, C. I. E., and Mr. W. A. Talbot, has made a presentation 
of a copy of his fine Forest Flora of the Bombay Presidency and 
Sind, vol. 1 (1909). 
A collection of 113 sectional maps of the Sudan have been 
received through the kind offices of Mr. A. F. Broun, Director of 
Woods and Forests to the Sudan Government. 
_ The establishment is especially indebted to Mr. J. R. Drummond, 
for a transcript of the lists of determinations, localities and 
other information, contained in Mr. J. F. Duthie’s Field Books 
relating to the collections of plants in the herbarium formed by Mr. 
Duthie for the Botanical Department of Northern India of which, 
up till 1903, he was Director. is herbarium, formerly at 
Saharanpur, is now at the Imperial Forest Research Institute, 
Dehra Dun. The transcript, which fills eight quarto volumes, each 
of about three hundred pages, has been made under Mr. Drummond's 
personal supervision and entirely at his expense. 
The late Dr. John Lowe at the time of his death had accumu- 
lated a great amount of material in the form of manuscript notes, 
cuttings from books and papers and other matter with the intention 
of issuing a second edition of his monograph, The Yew Trees of 
Great Britain and Ireland. In this ine he was assisted by Mrs. 
Lowe, who continued it after his death, with the co-operation of 
Mr. Augustine Henry and others. Unfortunately Mrs. Lowe did 
