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qe DLIL—MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. ^ ^ 
R. GWYNNE VAUGHAN, who had for the previous two years been 
erg: in the Jodreli Laboratory of the Royal Gardens, has been 
ted an Assistant to the Regius Professor of Botany in the 
iS ivenita of Glasgow 
Mn. W. H. Lane, Lecturer in Botany, Queen Margaret College, has 
been engaged during last year at the Jodrell Laboratory of the Royal 
Gardens in an investigation into the relation existing between variability 
in the fern plant a nd apogamy in the protha llus. This led to the 
interesting discovery of the occasional occurrence of sporangia on the 
atter. The results were communicated to the Royal Society, and 
published in the Proceedings for November last (Vol. 60, pp. 250-260). 
West India Commission.—In consequence of the depend, condition 
of the West India Colonies a Royal Commission has’ recently “been 
appointed, as published in the following announcement :— 
The, Queen has been pleased to appoint General Sir Henry Wylie 
Norman, G.C.B, G.C.M.G., CLB: ( Vates 1 Sir Edward Grey, 
art., M.P., and Sir David Barbour, KO. S.L, e Commissioners to 
inquire into the conditions and brothas of the West India sugar-growing 
Colonies, and Mr. Sidney Olivier, B.A., to be their Secretary ; Daniel 
orris, Esq., D.Sc., C.M.G., yy sistant: Director of the Royal Gardens, 
Kew, will accompany the Commission as: Expert Adviser in botanical 
and sgrion ora, Questio ns. ái 
y he reference to the Commission were as ea £— 
. * To inquire yx the condition and prospects of the lies. of 
Jamaica, British pogi Fry and Tobago, Bar Vue Grenada, 
St. Vince nt, St. Luc cia, ty Leeward dimer and of the sugar 
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abaridonment of sugar cultivation e re are other industries which 
could be prosecuted with success, and whieh would find adequate 
used by the extinction of the sugar industry could be met by 
economies in the administration without imperial aid. ^" 
tanical Magazine for January.—The plants figured mc 
tolochia clypeata, Cynoglossum nervosum, Berkheya Adlami, Crot 
Eluteria, and Big mre ia buccinatori oria. , The figure of the last-mentioned 
imen th Ha 
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