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the occasion of the Paris Exhibition. Professor Batalin, of the 
and that the core being light and loose it was suitable for the prepara- 
tion of groats. As no record was kept as to the locality from which the 
original sample was obtained, I had some difficulty in getting hold of it, 
but at pe received a sample from a place on the Punjab Himalaya 
above gra. As the seed is quite fresh I think vien vh you d 
wish ngs sow some at Kew, and retain a portion of it for the 
Yours, &e. 
J. Е. DurHIE. 
CCXVII.— MISCELLANEOUS NOTES. 
The Secretary ad rng for the Colonies has appointed, upon t 
nomination of r. C. A. Barber, B.A., late scholar of Christ's 
ollege, Ciakas, аа University Demonstrator in Botany, 
Superintendent of the Botanical and Agricultural Department in the 
Leeward Islands. 
d Affores 
be Superintendent of the Taj Gardens. "^ аа N.W. Provinces, India, 
The Secretary of State for the Colonies has appointed, on the nomina- 
tion of Kew, Mr. W. J. Tutcher, Sub-foreman in the Royal Gardens, to 
ese Mr. Westland as Assistant to the dom of the Botanical 
d Afforestation Department, Hong Kon 
. N. L. Britton, of Columbia College, New York, has presented 
totbe Herbarium of the Royal Gardens a further batch of about 450 
species of western South American plants which he is publishing from 
time to time in the “Bulletin” of the Torrey Club. 
The Herbarium formed by a Moravian missionary named Bernhard 
Schmid, in the Nilgiris, about the middle of the first half of the present 
century, has been acquired by exchange from Dr. Stahl of Jena. It is 
Zenker, 1835-1837. . 
Mr. G. H. Garrett, a travelling Commissioner, has presented a small 
but interesting collection of economic plants from Sierra Leone, with 
notes on their uses and habitats. 
Captain J. Donnell Smith of Baltimore has E рУ a set of the 
улан collected by himself last year in Guatemala. in previous : m 
