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Presentation to the Library.—Miss Catherine Sharpe, of the Grove, 
Hampstead, has presented a copy of the thirteenth edition of Linns»us's 
Systema Nature. This is not the genuine corrected thirteenth edition, 
edited by Gmelin, but one printed at Vienna in 1770, and a mere co 
of the twelfth. It is on the same footing as the so-called third edition 
of Linnzus’s Species Plantarum, also printed at Vienna. 
Cultivation As far asthe British Isles are concerned the 
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million acres (1,955,213). Of this England alone accounts for 1,798,869. 
is is only about a quarter of the acreage in the Punjab alone, as 
given in the following report :— 
DEPARTMENT OF LAND RECORDS AND ÅGRICULTURE, PUNJAB. 
ated Lahore, 27th February 1894. 
Second Report on the Wheat Crop of the Punjab for 1893-94. 
The area now estimated to be under wheat in the Province is almost 
exactly the same as that shown in the first forecast. The total i is e 
7,584,200 acres against 7,570,300 acres, a slight increase of O 
cent. It is an excess of 4-4 per cent. over the figures given in the 
second forecast of last year, and of 6'5 per c over the figures of the 
final forecast. In Hissar the area is said to be 32 per cent. below that 
of last year, as the rainfall there was pedes favourable in 1892, and 
failed somewhat early in autumn of 1893. This is the only district 
which reports a material falling off from the figures of 
Throughout the Province it may be said that the ea tay of the peck 
are an ier rain has fallen Wo als and 
vers are has been done by excessive moisture to 
the crops ol low-lying mu. and before the last rainfall rust (hung?) 
as showing itself in places. The late favourable rains followed by 
sunshine have, however, cleared it away. Sunshine is d is wanted 
now. Prices are ruling unusually low throughout the Province. 
ROBERTSON 
Director of Land Records and Agriculture, Punjab. 
Even, however, if the whole óf India be taken, the actual yield scarcely 
reaches the same proportion. In 1892 it was 60,775,245 bushels for 
i i nd 206,6 r India. I i 
ntry 
high as 31:30 in 1891), while in India it was only 8:44 bushels in 1892, 
and 9:66 in 1891 ; or cope only about a third of the yield per acre 
in the United Kingdom 
Canaigre.-- The new tanning material known as Canaigre, obtained 
from the root of Rumex hymenosepalum, has been fully described in 
the Kew Bulletin [1890, pp. 63-69], The plant is found widely 
distributed i in sandy soils on ee sides of We Rio — and northward 
over a large portion of Wes exas and New Mexico. According 
to Professor Collin ood api in ‘ho Pharmaceutical TS 
(XXIII. [3] p. 886), “the yield of Canaigre root in poor soil is about 
© seven tons per acre, whilst when properly cultivated as ak as 
