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took the cone home and left it on a table, about the middle of February. 
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The Flora of Formosa.—Dr. A. Henry has added to his rich collec- 
tions of dried plants from Eastern Asia by the gift of a further collection 
from Formosa, embracing about 1,750 numbers. Dr. Henry has not 
succeeded in reaching the mountains of the interior, which doubtless, 
the Herbarium, there is evidently a considerable per-centage of 
novelties. 
Handbook of the Flora of _Ceylon.—After an interval of a twelve- 
the more remarkable plants. The author has wisely altered the mode 
of publication originally decided upon; having separately paged this 
part, instead of continuing the pagination from part one. It is, or was, 
expected that two more volumes of about the same size would complete 
the work ; but if the proportions of the Orders are about the same as in 
British India, a fifth will be necessary. 
Visit of tem bcd of Gold Coast to = West Indies.—On the 
suggestion of Sir V andford Griffith, .G., it was arranged 
that Mr. William MB Curator of the Botanic Station at Aburi on 
the Gold Coast, should visit the West Indies during the winter of 1893- 
94. The object in view was “to enlarge his knowledge of the 
* cultivation of valuable tropical economic plan ts, to observe the system 
* and arrangements pursued at the segue Stations i in that part of the 
** world, and to procure and bring back s eful seeds and plants as 
€ might be of advantage to introduce to the Gold Coast." Mr. Crowther 
left Éngland on the 11th October 1893, and returned on the 11th January 
1894. He was furnished with credentials from the Colonial Office to 
position to profit by what came under his observation. At Jamaica he 
saw for the first time large and well-established botanic gardens in the 
