1897.] Library, 149 



Miguel, must be altered. I have already pointed out tlmt, in Her- 

 barium specimens, there is at no stage of the fruit any pulp visible, and 

 Mr. Ridley now shows that Hasskarl's explanation of this absence of 

 pulp from ripe pods is not only insufficient but inexact. The pulp does 

 not disappear, it never was there. 



We are thus left to face the question : — What is Mimosa Koeringa, 

 the tree that R-oxbargh describes as having the seed enveloped in an 

 edible fleshy aril ? Those best acquainted with Roxburgh's work are 

 precisely those who are least likely to doubt that sucli a tree was known 

 to Roxburgh, for if the description of the tree itself be brief, the 

 statement regarding the seed is sufficiently precise. If that description 

 be accurate, then certainly the tree which Roxburgh knew as Koeringa 

 cannot well be the Jiring, which moreover Roxburgh appears to have 

 known since, though he did not describe it, he named it Mimosa 

 Bjiringa. We must therefore appeal once more for help to Mr. Ridley 

 and our other botanical colleagues in Malaya. 



The following additions have been made to the Library since the 

 meeting held in August last. 



Ti^NSACTiONS, Proceedings and Joui^als, 



presented by the respective Societies and Editors. 



Batavia. Bataviaasch Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen, — 

 Notulen, Deel XXXV, Aflevering 1 und 2. 



Berlin. Konigl. Preussische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Ber- 

 lin,— Sitzungsberichte, XXVI-XXXIX, 1697. 



Boston. American Philological Association, — Transactions, Vol. 

 XXVII. 



. -. Boston Society of Natural History, — Proceedings, Vol 



XXVII, pp. 201-330. 



Brisbane. Queensland Agricultural Journal, — Vol. I, Parts 2 and 3. 



Calcutta. Geological Survey of India, — Memoirs, Palasontologia In- 

 dica, Series XV, Vols. I, Parts 4 ; II, 1. 



. . Records, Vol. XXX, Part 3. 



. Indian Engineering, — Vol. XXII, Nos. 6-18 ; and Index to 



Vol. XXI. 



— . The Indian Lancet,— Vol. X, Nos. 4-7. 



