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Merritt, M. L. & Whitford — A Preliminary Working 
Plan for the Forests of the Philippines. „ 
Gardner, K. — 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. 
J^ramer, H. — Origin and Nature of Color in Plants. 
Breda, de Haan, — Report on Arachis hypogaea. 
Cramer, P. — Report on Cassava. 
Christ, H. — Filices Insular, um Philippinarum. 
„ Filices Cavalerianae. 
Lendenfeldt — Relation of Wing Surface to Weight. 
Newell, T. H. — The Work of the Reclamation Service. 
Macgregor, K., & Worcester. D. C. — List of the Birds of 
the Philippine Islands. 
Hullett, R. VV. — Presented 5 Volumes of the Transactions 
of the Linnean Society. v 
Wright, H. — Hevea Braziliensis, Editions i & 2. 
Willis, J. C. — Rubber in the East. 
Also the usual series of Journals, Reports and other publications 
of the various Botanic and other Establishments of the World. 
Purchased: — Le Caoutchouc en Indo-Chineby C. & A, Spire. 
The Gardeners’ Chronicle, Botanical Magazine, Journal of 
Linnean Society, Indian Planting and Gardening, India Rubber 
and Gutta Percha Trades Journal, and t Pftanzem;eich. 
Publications. 
12. — The printing of the Volumes on Monocotyledons for the 
Materials for “A Flora of the Malay Peninsula” was commenced, 
and is expected to appear in a month or two. They are divided 
into two volumes, which are being printed simultaneously. The 
first volume contains the Hydrocharideae and Grchideae, the second 
the rest of the orders. Papers on the Begonias and on the Scitamineae 
and the Grasses and Sedges of Borneo and a complete account of 
the expedition to Christmas Islands and the Flora thereof were 
published in the “Journal of the Straits Branch of The Royal Asiatic 
Society” by the Director, and also an article on the Scitamineae of 
the Philippines, published in a Manila Journal. All the types of the 
species described are conserved in the Botanic Gardens, Herbarium. 
The “Agricultural Bulletin ” was published as regularly as could 
be done by the printers, and there was no Falling off in the demand 
for it. Mr. J. B. Carruthers became assistant Editor in the 
beginning of the year. Most of the articles dealt with Rubber 
cultivation and manufacture, but fibres, oil-grasses and other 
