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pe ey Peristeria elata ae Vanda Singers sales and a fine 
healthy specimen of Cyrtopodium punctatum are particularly worthy 
of notice. Other genera represented in the collection by one or 
more species are Masdev allia, Miltonia, Lycaste, Thunia, Zygope- 
talum, Anguloa, Catasetum, Coelogyne, Cattleya, Laelia, Phalaenopsis 
and Trichopilia. 
C.°P. B. 
Bust oftSir J. D. Hooker—On 14 July, 1913, Lady Hooker 
addressed the oo _ to the Director :—‘ May I ask your 
“acceptance on beha e Royal Botanic Gardens, of a Bust of 
“my late husband Sir J ecb Dalton Hooker? The clay model was 
**taken from life b r. Pennacchini, in the autumn of 1911; 
“from this a aie has lately been completed and it may, I 
“hope, find an appropriate place in the Institution = een to the 
is oe of which he devoted the best years of his 
ady Hooker very kindly accepted an invitation es pay a visit 
to Kew with a view to the selection of the most — = 
for the bust. The spot decided upon is in Museum No. I, w 
there already is a bust, by Thomas Woolner, R.A., of Sir W. J. 
ooker, father of Sir J.D. Hooker and predecessor of Sir J catgle 
in the post of Director of Kew. 
In accordance with an undertaking entered into at the time of 
this visit the bust of Sir Joseph Hooker was conveyed to Kew by 
the artist himself and placed in the position decided upon, under his 
supervision, on 12 August, 1913. 
containing 252 pages as against 204 and 193 rospeuanealya in the 
second and third supplem ents. The plan of the work remains the 
same with a few exceptions. The most important difference is 
that the present op greet is now a register of names without any 
reductions, no opinion being expressed as to the validity of the 
genera and species ihehuded | in it. The genera are referred to the 
* Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum Supplementum esac: 
nomina et syno. pice omnium generum et specierum a ab initio anni MDCCCCV. 
usgue ad finem Mpccccx nonnulla etiam antea edita complectens, poke 
et consilio D, Pritt © ith Herbarii Horti Regii Botanici Kewensis Cura-_ 
tores. Oxonii,e prelo Clarendoniano. MDCCECXII. 
