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Notizblatt des Königlichen botanischen Gartens und Museums zu 
Berlin.— Berlin has paid Kew the compliment of establishing an organ 
on the same lines and for the same purposes as the Kew in; that. 
is to say, for recording noteworthy events in the establishments which 
would otherwise attract little attention; for publishing the novelties in 
small collections that are constantly arriving, and for developing a more 
intimate connexion between the home and colonial botanical and horti- 
cultural institutions. The first number contains a list of A most 
ped plants recently introduced into the Berlin garden; experi- 
ents in raising and cultivating plants, and con Kies to the 
colonise; notes on plants cultivated in the colonies; diagnoses of new 
of this kind can only result in benefit to similar establishments in other 
countries and the aivaidtenent of botanical science and enterprise in 
the wor 
Botanical Magazine.— The number for February contains figures of 
several plants of unusual interest. Musa Hillit, a native of Queens- 
Quite recently, but too late for the Magazine, fruit - been produce 
It is bright red, globose in shape, about an inch an alf in diameter, 
re-discovered by Dr. Fritz Mueller. It was raised from Bs m 
the Copenhagen Boíanie Garden. Richardia Pentlandii, a native of 
Basutoland, is remarkable for the large size of its Sotal. leaves * 
its spathes. r was drawn from E, ve 
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Mr. Scott-Elliot's Ruwenzori Expedition.— Nature for anite 5, 
1891, gave an account, rescued from an figi periodical, of the 
botanical results, slender enough it is true, but not without interest, x 
iom Emin Relief Expedition, as described by Major Jephson. This w 
sed on a small collection brought by Lieutenant Stairs from “a ‘high 
altitude on the slopes of Ruwenzori or the Mountains of the Moon. 
In 1893 Mr. Scott-Elliot, an accomplished botanist and distinguished 
traveller, submitted to the Government Grant Committee of the 
Cen rica. Board for Botany, Mr. Sc 
Elliot a he investigation of Ruwenzori, and through = kind 
aid of Sir John Kirk, such official facilities as were possible were 
obtained on his behalf, 
