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Mr. Harotp GREEN, a member of the gardening staff of the 
Royal Botanic Gardens, has been appointed by the Secretary of 
State for the Colonies, on the recommendation of Kew, Assistant 
Pilg of the Botanical and Forestry Department, Hong 
ong. 
Mr. Harry Dopp, whose appointment as Curator of the 
Botanic Station at Onitsha, Southern Nigeria, was recorded in 
Kew Bulletin, 1906, p. 224, has been appointed by the Secretary of 
State for India in Council, on the recommendation of Kew, a 
probationer gardener for service in India. 
Presentations by Mrs. Cooke——Mrs. Cooke has very kindly pre- 
sented to Kew the bronzed terra-cotta model of the bust of the late 
Dr. Theodore Cooke which was made by the sculptor preparatory 
to the execution of the marble bust presented to the College of 
Science, Poona. The model was taken from life about fifteen years 
ago. rs. Cooke has also presented a selection of books from 
Dr. Cooke’s library, among which may be mentioned, T. Moore’s 
“ British Ferns and their Allies,” 1866, and “ Vernacular names of 
Plants in the Presidency Proper, Bombay,” 1901, by W 
Symonds, which were not represented in the Kew Library. Two 
books of Indian and Queensland Ferns, also received from Mrs. 
Cooke to be dealt with at the discretion of the Director, have 
been presented to the Botanical Department of the Hast London 
College, Mile End Road. 
Hooker’s Icones Plantarum.—Three parts of this work have 
appeared since the last notice in the Bulletin. Part 4 of Volume 
xxix., including plates 2876-2900, was issued in June 1909. 
Plates 2876, 2877, represent Manihot dichotoma, Ule, the Jequié 
Manicoba of Brazil, which is said to be one of the best rubber- 
yielding species of the genus. The remainder of the part is 
devoted to the genus Sapium, and includes numerous new or little- 
known species, among which are S. Hippomane, G. F. W. Meyer, 
and S. utile, Preuss, both of which yield rubber. 
Part 1 of Volume xxx. was issued in January 1910. It is 
wholly devoted to the illustration of Asiatic species of Impatiens, 
described by Sir J. D. Hooker. Hight of the species figured are 
f ndo-China, six from the Western Himalaya, five from the 
Nilgiri Hills, three from China, and one each from Afghanistan 
and Nepal. Fourteen of the 25 species are described for the first 
time 
Part 2 of Volume xxx. appeared in January 1911. Eighteen of 
the plates illustrate new or recently described genera. : 
Gooringia, t. 2944, Caryophyllaceae, tribe Alsineae, differs from 
Arenaria by its tetramerous flowers and from Buffonia by the 4- 
valved capsule. G. Littledalei, F. N. Williams, has the habit of a 
Sagina. It is a native of Tibet and Sikkim. 
