306 
pounds of stalks and 1,232 pounds of wet ribbons, equal to about 410 
of dry ribbons. But, as shown, both machines "M roo to 
finish the 500 pounds of stalks weighed out to each for the 
«The results of the New Orleans trials are irr as T as they 
have demonstrated the status of the machines entered, and established an 
imet á 
-report Pea cannot be made with the best foreign machines, 
though I shall genius i cover the whole ground in a special report, 
Bulletin No. 5, Fibre Investigations, to be issued at an early date.” 
The trials Vihe Jute stems were very similar in their results to those 
noted in the case of Ramie stems. There was no conclusive evidence 
either way. The best results with Jute stalks as far as they went, 
were given by the Kauffman machine. This cleaned 100 pound of 
stalks in 20 minutes, yielding 32 pounds of wet ribbons. The ribbons 
were deseribed * as well delignated with a very small per-centage of 
woody waste. The fibre occasionally was somewhat broken. 

CCLXXXVII.—EARL OF BUTES BOTANICAL TABLES. 
In the historical MM of fa pialle es, Iah p. a reference 
Sin had an 
is made to this rare work. we 
opportunity, through pi apes i i ik : 
amining the copy in the Royal Library at Windsor which formerly 
belonged to Queen Charlotte, to whom the w ; dedicated, We 
are cing indebted to the Queen’s Librarian at Windsor, Mr. R. 
R. Holmes, for his i me in personally bringing the volumes to Kew 
at some Santis to If. 
Seeing t that the eR of Bute resided at Kew, and that the * Botanical 
ables " were, probably in part prepa ared Mens some further particulars 
of the publieation may be given in this place 
On the n leaf of the first volume of the wi indsor copy is the follow- 
ine note in pencil, written by ie Rev . John Glover yf a Royal 
Librarian by William IV.):— f this work only 16 [sixteen] copies 
/.* were printed for pm ata cost, it is said, of more than 10,0001 
yd P HEN eopy belonged to Queen Charlotte, and was pu at the 
— ** gale of Her Majesty’s library for, I believe, 1007." 
-~ Dryander, however, a eem ciet d of Lord Bute, aid librarian to 
Sir Joseph Banks, states (Cat. Bibl. Banks, jii., p. 133) that only 12 
` copies were printed, and this Sitaat gusts seems to be substantiated by the 
iak t transcript of a note in Sir — Banks’s handwriting, 
wafered into the last volume (1X.) of his set, now in the British 

