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Indian. From such houses no visitor was ever allowed to take 
his departure eerte carrying with him a supply of the latest- 
made aji; no raveller went to the capital or my. of the — 
Santa Rosa, or the et Fathers who once a year went long 
journeys to baptise the children, marry their parents, and 
otherwise maintain the influence and authority of the Church 
in the remote gn of the earth. “But even this good custom is 
fast dying out 
DCXV.—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
Mr. OLIVER TIETJENS HEMSLEY, a member of the gardening staff 
of the oo al Gardens, has been appointed, on the recommendation 
of Kew, by the Secretary of State for India in Council, a pro- 
bationer a for employment in the Royal Fouale Gardens, 
aleut 
Mr. ALEXANDER WHYTE has been appointed by the Secretary 
of State for Foreign Affairs, Curator of the Botanic Garden, 
Uganda, about to be established “for the better (E and 
development of the agricultural resources of the Protectorate." 
Mr. Whyte had previously started a similar aiei in British 
Central Africa, in which he was from 1891-7 Head of the Scientific 
Department. An interesting report of his work is given in the 
Kew Bulletin for 1895 (pp. 186-191). He made an important 
collection in North Nyasaland, a country which had never been 
previously explored botanically. A portion of the novelties was 
described in the Kew Bulletin for last year (pp. 243-300) and a 
further one is published in the present number. 
Mr. JOHN WEIR. t. Tho death of this old collector for the Royal 
Hortieultural Society occurred on the 98th of April last, and 
was recorded in the phi eners’ Chronicle of May 14th. John 
Weir collected in Brazil and New Granada between 1861 and 1864, 
when he had an attack of sre followed by paralysis, from which 
he never completely recovered. In addition to living plants and 
seeds he made an extensive collection = dried plants, which were 
only partially distributed at the tim Many of the novelties 
among the flowering plants were aieritiad by the late John Miers, 
F.R.S., in the Jo rnal of the Horticultural Society ; and the mosses 
by Mitten in the Journal of the Linnean Society. At the wish of 
the deceased the considerable residue of his collection was offered 
to Kew only a few days before his death. 
Botanical Magazine for June—Crinwm Woodrow? is a fine new 
species from Central India, named after Mr. G. Marshall Woodrow, 
Professor of Botany in the College of Science, Poona, by whom 
