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Museum, London; Sir W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, Dr. Otto nae 
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mond LeBey of the Institut Botanique, Caen; M. Paul Hariot 
of the Muséum d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris; Madame A. Wel 
van Bosse, Eerbeek, Holland; Dr. J. Martin, Cae 
Museum, Oldenburg im Gr., Geamany ; Dr. A. Voigt and Major 
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gesen, Botanisk Museum, Copenhagen ; Professors Sv. Murbeck 
and Otto Nordstedt, Lund; Professor V. B. Wittrock and Dr. 
. O. Malme, Riksmuseum, Stockholm; Professor F. R. 
Kelman, and Dr. Nils Svedelius, Upsala; and Professor N. 
Wille, Kristiania. 
Respectfully submitted, 
MarsuHatt A. Hows, 
Assistant Curator. 
NOTES, NEWS AND COMMENT. 
e of the most important and valuable contributions of scien- 
tific material yet made to the Garden has recently been received 
from Sir William Dyer, director of the Royal Gardens at Kew, 
England, consisting of many thousand herbarium and museum 
specimens of lichens, duplicates from the famous lichen herbarium 
formed by the Rev. W. A. Leighton, of Luciefelde, Shrewsbury, 
and presented by him to the Royal Gardens in 1882. Mr. 
eighton was an accepted authority on lichens in England, but 
owing to the crowded condition of the herbarium at Kew for the 
last twenty years it has hitherto been impossible to arrange his 
collection properly for consultation. The additional fire-proof 
uilding recently erected at Kew for the purposes of the her- 
barium has now made it possible to on this collection, together 
with other lichen collections there, and it was found that many 
of Leighton’s specimens duplicated those which Kew had pre- 
