505 
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at once added and filled, and these i y 
he- -— curator added his private herbarium of European: plan nts, n 
‘bering some 5000 sheets. Until the removal of the collection to ‘the 
new Agricultural Offices iu Grave Street, Vesper eig Peu arrange- 
ments were very inadequate and ingonreniit Ther not much to 
o " vernm 
charge and his scientifie en drain could doubtless point out some 
shortcomings. It is not very accessible, indeed atthe top of the building, 
and there is always a dread of the recurrence of the catastrophe which 
overtook Zeyher’s collection in Hamburg. Some day, perhaps, it may 
be remoyed to a new and truly public museum, into which students will 
be skates and tempted to enter by the very aspect of the building 
itself. 
Camphor.—The pesca) demand for this substance, which is obtained 
ur distillation from the wood of Cinnamomum Camphora, a tree of Japan 
China, has led to fonts being addressed to Kew as to its extended 
atis in the Colonies. It grow if freely in et E Europe and is 
suitable for planting in any warm ti € elim 
The following note is extraeted from the Brio North Borneo 
Herald, E eee er 16 :— 
* Nea O years ago pe osa camphor was quoted at $20 per picul, 
but E uds causes, chiefly owing to the invention of smokeless 
gunpowder, in the vai tases of which it is largely used, the price has 
now risen to $79. In thisconnection it is a curious fact to note that 
camphor which discharges a dn vouge of carbon during corps. on 
should produce a smokeless eo 
he cause assigned for th Sof price proves to be erro neou will 
be seen from, the UE Tots or which Kew is fidebled i Si 
Frederick Abel. 
Sır FREDERICK ABEL TO ROYAL GARDENs, Krew. 
Imperial Institute, Imperial Institute Road, 
ndon, S.W., 
DEAR gos arae DYER * November 16, 1895. 
soon demonstrated to be attended with serious practical disadvantage 
and its application for this purpose can therefore not be said to have been 
other than experimental, and of no great importance, even at that time, 
ip 
applied to the M of imitation ivory, tortoise-shell, horn, and a 
great variety of purpose 
Yours sincerely, 
We ds — Esq., (Signed) F. A. ABEL. 
C.M.G., € 
Royal Gar dens, Kew. 
