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chiefly relating to British plants, and- consisting v m of üithéfent 
editions of works by authors already represented in the library. Among 
them Bingley, J. Donn, Knapp, Lees, and Withering. 
Kniphof’s Botanica in Originali, seu Herbarium Vivum, 17 68-1764.— 
The name Kniphof, as commemorated in the genus Kniphofia, is not 
unfamiliar, but comparatively few persons will know anything of the 
history of the man who was the author of the w ork of which the above 
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botanical book has lately been added to the Kew library. It is interest - 
ing historically, both on account of its being a record of plants cultivated 
at that date in Germany, and chiefly, in all probability, at Erfurt, as 
it was there the author resided, and also on account of its 
of the earliest, if not actually the first, work E considerable extent, in 
which the process of nature-printing was employed to illustrate plants. 
It would appear sat "s Diae uh a contemporary of foa was 
may be 
plants, as there is S plished Avie i him on the subject addréseii on 
Kniphof, dated 1733; but this is not in the Kew library. The title 
is: Sendschreiben an J. H. Kniphof, die Art die Kräuter nach dem 
Leben abzudrucken und also compendióse Herbaria picta zu machen, 
vorstellend. The full title of the work in question is: Botanica in 
Originali seu Herbarium Vivum in quo Plantarum tam Indigenarum 
quam Exoticarum ne quidam operosaque enchiresi atramento 
impressorio obductarum Nominibusque suis Methodum Illustrium 
nostri aevi Debinicntiti Listas et i Insignitarum n 
sima ectypa exhibentur. Opera et St —€— Godofredi Tram 
ie are two foolseap folio oli ið taining 1202 figures, one 
besides a number ii iw vibe h the title. pages of the 
12 reed in which it was issued, for the purposes of embellishment, 
making a total of 1250 species represented. Figure 545 is missing. 
The Kew copy is probably unique in being coloured, the colouring 
being most likely the work of a private person, for there is no mention 
of coloured copies by any of the bibliographers. - The stances ef is 
at Cologne, who seems to have acquired it in 1764, the date of the 
publication of the last part. Subsequently it mast ‘have passed into 
English hands, as some person has written, in a very neat hand, the 
ind names of many of the plants. 
rrangement is alphabetical, with the Linnean names of the 
first adition. of the Species Plantarum, and references to the pages of 
that work, as well BS the Systema, and Ludwig’s Definitiones Generum 
Plantarum. The * specific phrases” of the Species Plantarum are 
also reproduced. 
Indian Plants.— The Rev. R. Huter, of Sterzing, Austrian Tyrol, 
has wt st a collection of dried plants, made by Hieronymus Ras 
ssionary, near Bethia, North Behar, and on the Nepal frontier. It 
consist of Aout à 450 species, including a few new ones. 
