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Lugard's, from the Kwebe Hills, Ngamiland. Dr. L. Pierre has 
contributed a number of specimens of critical species from Western 
Tropical Africa. A collection, consisting chiefly of ferns, from 
Zanzibar Island, has been received from J. T. Last, Esq., and 
Natal. Professor W. G. Farlow has presented 42 Cryptogams, 
chiefly American, new to the Kew Herbarium. J. Macoun, Esq. 
continues to send collections from Canada and the islands of the 
Behring Sea. Specimens from Iowa, Nebraska, South Dakota, 
and Wyoming, have been sent by Professor Pammel, from the 
Bahamas, by Mri Northrop, from Jamaica, by W. Fa weett, Esq., 
from Mexico, by Mr. Michele, and from British Guiana, y 
G. S. Jenman, Esq. C. B. Clarke, Esq. = p Dr. Ule's 
Cyperacex, from Brazil, and Mr. C. Lindman's Cyperaces», from 
Brazil and Paraguay ; Dr. Briquet a set of Héneik and Czermak’s 
Central Brazilian plants; Dr. Fischer von Waldheim, petaloid 
Monocotyledons and Cyperaces, collected chiefly by Riedel, in 
Brazil, and Mr. P. M of Stockholm, a collection from 
Temperate South Am Exceedingly interesting specimens of 
South American high-level plants have been communicated r4 
Edward Whymper, Esq. Sir W. Martin Conway, and E. 
FitzGerald, Esq. 
pp i to the lakes Rakas-tal and Manasarowar in Western Tibet, 
undertaken in September, 1848, by a survivor (Lieut. -General 
Sir R. Strachey), more than fift years after the event, is an 
journey in questi Gi by Mr. J. E. Winterbottom, and, among other 
results, was an excellent collection of dried plants from a —— 
previously unknown. It is referred to in Hooker a omson 
lora Indica, Introductory Essay, p. 66,as the most valuable tor 
its size that had ever been dist ributed Hate India, and as com- 
this catalogue is incorporated in a pa Journ. Linn. + ext. 
(1894), ons 125) by M e B. He Peter: n two small Collections 
of Tibetan Plants. " The mu. catalogue, it may be added, 
Was published in E. I. Atkinson's Economic Products © the 
North- West Provinces, pp. 402-670 (1876). d 
After completing the arrangements of their joint collections, 
J. E. es mel went to Egypt. "This was in Jan wary, MESE 
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