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be inspected any day in the Woods Department of the Museum 

 at Kew Gardens. It was presented recently by Lord Iveagh. 

 We hope to give in a future Gazette a photograph sketch, 

 which will show what is meant. We have in our Haslemere 

 collection a specimen nearly as good, and of this we have 

 given below a photograph. In this instance there is a 



A section of the same trunk, showing the incurving of the growth on both 

 sides enclosing the hollow. The lip on the left side is much thinner than 

 that on the right. 



history that the tree was struck by lightning many years 

 ago. The same condition in an early stage of its production 

 may be examined in the Combeswell oaks, to which reference 

 has been made above, and also in several of the Lynchmere 

 trees. It may be suspected, however, that oaks do not accom- 

 plish this curling in quite so easily as elms, for both Lord 

 Iveagh's specimen of the exaggerated condition and our own 

 are from elms. 



