197 
scheme sanctioned by ihe Charity Commission the trustees of the 
o 
trustees of the London parochial charities, and one each by the 
Treasury, the Lord President of ihe Council, the Technical 
Education Board of the County Council, the Royal Society, the 
Phaensecutiosl Society, the University of London, and the Society 
the promotion of the study of botany, with special vetu ce to 
the requirements of general education, scientific instruction and 
research in botany Se ern vegetable physiology) and instruc- 
tion in technical arm cology a as far as the culture of medicinal 
ed for th 
and experimental teaching with the aid of botanical as ns, 
while a physiological laboratory with appliances um demonstration 
and Serco may also be provided. In ge ort of the een 
the trustees are to contribute out of the income of the City 
Parochial Foundation an annual sum not poly £800, together 
with such an amount of capital for the equipment of the garden 
and buildings as may be agreed upon with the Charity Commis- 
sioners. In return the students of institutions receiving aid from 
the London parochial charities are eligible for admission without 
. So long, too, as not less than £150 is „paid annually to the 
trustees out of moneys el provided by Parliament, the 
same privilege is se to the Royal College of Science, and 
its students, professors and chee are to be entitled to use for 
purposes of teaching or research the garden, botanical collections, 
d lecture rooms for not less than three hours on each day 
between April 1 and et 31, and on two days of the week 
during p rest of the year. In other cases the Pul for admission 
and the fees (if any) to pé charged are within the discretion of the 
en of management, subject to the approval of the Charity 
Commissioners." 
Uganda — —The following note deserves recording, if 
only to commemorate the late Capt. B. L. Sclater, Eu who 
Pees a : "d promise in opening up the access to Uganda 
from the coast, and added one more name to the band of 
distinguished men who have perished in the work of African 
pioneering. 
The promised specimens were never destined to reach Kew. 
But there is little doubt that the Juniper referred to is Juniperus 
rocera, Hochst. Roth says of it on the label of an Abyssinian 
specimen in the Kew Herbarium :—* Arbor (i atimia; sylvas 
ang unica e familia Coniferarum. Lignum usitatissi- 
mü The other Conifer is most probably a Podocarpus. i 
