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THE AVICULTURAL JOURNAL. 



Edited by J. Lewis Bonhote, M.A. To promote and encourage the 

 study of Birds, British and Foreign, both wild and in captivity. 



Annual subscription 155., post free. Single copies is. <\d., post free. Members of 

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HINTS ON COLLECTING & PRESERVING PLANTS. 



By Stanley Guiton. Chapters on Collecting and Equipment, Drying, 

 Preserving and Arranging, Mounting, &>c. Fully Illustrated. Croxvn 8vo, 

 64 pp., 1s., postage 2d. 



" Useful to schools, or classes, field naturalists' clubs, or to any one interested in the 

 collection of specimens of our native flora, or who wished to prepare and bring or send 

 home specimens from abroad." — The Field. 



ALIEN FLORA OF BRITAIN. 



By Stephen Troyte Dunn, B.A., F.L.S., Superintendent Botanical 

 and Afforestation Department, Hongkong. Author of 'Flora of South- 

 West Surrey,' dc. Demy 8vo, Cloth extra, 208 pp. + xvi. Price 5s. 

 The term Alien is used to designate any species which, though now spontaneous, 

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 recorded as escapes from, or survivals of, cultivation. 



THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY. British and Foreign. 



Monthly. Edited by James Britten, F.L.S. Illustrated. 1s. 8d. 



Contains original articles by leading Botanists, Notices of Books, and botanical 

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ncwman's Botanical Drying Paper. 



For drying Floivers, Ferns, Sea-weeds, and other specimens for the Herbarium. 



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