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DLXXXV. , EHSPTUHNA. ENR NOTES. 
Mr. JOHN HENRY Hor , who was appointed Assistant 
Curator of the Botanic Station at Pol Calabar, in the Niger Coast 
Protectorate (Kew Bulletin, 1896, p. 147), has returned to this 
country after having completed his first term of service. He will 
spend a part of his leave at Kew in studies connected with the 
work of his department, and return to West Africa early next year. 
MR. WILLIAM ScoTT, F.L.S., Director of Forests and Gardens 
in Mauritius, died somewhat dh in Seotland on the 3rd Oct. 
Scott, after a course of training at Kew, was appointed 
rag Director in 1881, and neee Me Mr. Horne as Director 
n 1893. He had lately arrived in this country on leave after 
an absence of 16 years in the tropics, and apparently in excellent 
health. Mr. Scott was a capable officer and thoroughly devoted 
to his duties. His death will be a great loss to the Colony in 
which he has so long served. He entered upon the charge of 
Mauritius Gardens under singularly Javea circumstances, as 
his first work was to restore the havoc wrought by the hurricane of 
1893, which had nearly destroyed one of the most attractive gardens 
in the East. By dint of great zeal and energy, he had T€ 
this work and left his department in excellent order. s he w 
a comparatively young man, it was hoped that he had a career of 
great usefulness before him. His meme death will be received 
with great regret by all who knew him 
Malpighi Celebration.—The celebrated Italian anatomist and 
botanist, Marcello Malpighi, was a ieu tkt ooke and 
Grew, not less illustrious in our own coun ry. was elected 
an honorary member of the Royal Society in 1668, and in 1672 
the Society published his great work ‘“ Anatome Plantarum." 
On September 8th of the present year a monu ment to his honour 
was unveiled at Crevalcore, near Bologna. The Royal Society 
nominated Dr. Scott, F. RS. ey _Keeper of the Jodrell 
: Laboratory, to represent it the occasion. He was, 
unfortunately prevented by A $ the last moment from 
travelling to Italy. 
Botanical Magazine for October.—Cirrhopetalum robustum is a 
New Guinea species, having yellow-green sepals, yellow and 
rose petals, and blood-red labellum. The Kew plant was received 
from Colonel Trevor Clarke, in 1893. Agave Bouchei, from 
Mexico, has been in cultivation at Kew for about twenty years, 
but it did not produce flowers till 1896 ; the flower spike w as two 
feet long. Primula sinensis was raised from seed, supposed to 
have been received from Ichang, and a plant was se sent to Kew by 
Mr. Edmund Hyde, of Ealing, in December, t Calathea 
wer T eken to be a native of Brazil, was sent to Kew from 
the Imperial Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg. The whole plant, 
except the golden-yellow flowers, is clothed with long brown 
hairs. Particular interest attaches to Pterisanthes polita, a 
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