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Merritt, M. L. & Whitford — A Preliminary \\ orking 



Plan for the Forests of the Philippines. 

 Gardner, R.— Mechanical Tests of Thirty Philippine Woods. 

 Fairchild, D.— Our Plant Immigrants. 

 Lippincott, J. B.-The Yuma Reclamation. 

 Henricksen, H. C.-Vegetable Growing in Porto Rico. 

 Piper, C— Contribution X from the National Herbarium. 

 Kramer, H.- Origin and Nature of Color in Plants. 

 Breda, de Haan.- Report on Arachis hypogaea. 

 Cramer, P.— Report on Cassava. 

 Christ, H.— Filices Insularum Philippinarum. 



Filices Cavalerianae. 

 Lendenfeldt— Relation of Wing Surface to Weight. 

 Newei l, T. H.— The Work of the Reclamation Service. 

 Macgregor, K., & Worcester, D. C.-List of the Birds of 



the Philippine Islands. 

 Hullett, R. W.-Presented 5 Volumes of the Transact.ons 



of the Linnean Society. 

 Wright, H.— Hevea Braziliensis, Editions i & 2. 

 Willis, J. C— Rubber in the East. 



of Journals, Reports and other publications 

 nc and other Establishments of the World. 

 Purchased :-Le Caoutchouc en Indo-Chineby C. & A. Spire. 

 The Gardeners' Chronicle, Botanical Magazine Journa lot 

 Linnean Society, Indian Planting and Gardening, India Rubber 

 and Gutta Percha Trades Journal, and Pflanzenreich. 



Publications. 

 i2.-The printing of the Volumes on Monocotyledons for the 

 Materials for "A Flora of the Malay Peninsula* was commenced, 



first volume contains the Hydrocharideae and Orchide* the secon 

 the rest of the orders. Papers on the Begonias and on the bc ' ta , 

 and the Grasses and Sedges of Borneo and a complete account 01 

 the expedition to Christmas Islands and the Flora thereof were 

 published in the - Journal of the Straits Branch of The Royal A^tK 

 Society" by the Director and also an article on the Scitammeae 01 

 the Phones! pub'shed in a Manila Journal All the gP-££ 

 species described are conserved in the Botanic Gardens, rier ua 

 . The "Agricultural Bulletin "was published as regularly ascould 

 be done by the printers, and there was no falling off m the dema . 

 for it. Mr I B Carrlthfrs became assistant Editor m tne 

 beginning of^he year Most of the articles dealt with Rubbe 

 cultivation and manufacture, but fibres, oil-grasses and other 



