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here seem as complete and convenient as could be devised, and 
I thoroughly enjoyed consulting the herbarium and library during 
my visit, my principal work with them being the comparison and 
determination of a large number of specimens of Bahamian and 
other West Indian specimens obtained during our explorations 
of the past four years; my studies brought out a considerable 
number of species new to science among these specimens, and 
many other illustrating rare or little known plants. ilar 
series of comparisons of mosses from our collections was made 
by Mrs. Britton, and valuable information secured bearing on the 
North American moss-flora 
An important addition to the Kew greenhouses is the new 
succulent house, a large structure devoted entirely to cacti, Cras- 
sulaceae, agaves, and other plants requiring much light an 
little moisture for their best cultivation, and containing a great 
many fine specimens, eng a grown in other houses not so 
well adapted to their needs. y additional species have been 
rought into the various Kew ieee since my - last visit and 
I observed some of these with great pleasure and interest. Sir 
William Thiselton Dyer, the director, kindly gave me valuable 
advice, and continued his arte nee ang me a number of 
books and specimens for our collec 
r. George Massee, the ae . the Kew staff, indicated 
to me his desire to sell all his original drawings, notes and speci- 
mens, illustrating an unpublished monograph of the large fungus 
class Discomycetes, which his present duties prevent his com- 
pleting ; I bought these studies, comprising over 1000 objects ; 
they will be of value and importance in future research on these 
plants in America 
I took much interest in examining portions of the collections 
of coal-plants formed by Dr. D. H. Scott, honorary director of 
the Jodrell Laboratory at Kew, which have shed such a flood of 
information upon the true nature of many of the carboniferous 
species long supposed to be ferns, but now proven, largely by 
Dr. Scott’s researches, to be seed-bearing sept allied to the 
living ioe or sago- ae I have to thank him for his kind- 
ess in show me ical specimens and for his gift to our 
library of his meee papers concerning them. 
