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30. In exchange and in donations there were distributed 111 boxes, bags, and packets of seeds weighing 781bs., and 1,933 plants. The principal recipients were:----
Agri: Horticultural Society, Madras. Arthur, H., Formosa.
Bain, Mrs. M.
Barton, J.
Botanic Gardens, Bombay.
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British Guiana.
Natal.
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Saharanpur.
Saigon.
Singapore.
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Italian Convent.
Kirkwood, M., Yokohama, Japan. Legge, Mrs.
Martin, G. P., England.
Olifent, Captain
Piercy, G.
Police Station, Hunghòm.
Queensland Acclimatisation Society, Brisbane.
Romano, A. G.
Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta.
Botanical Department, Jamaica. Bunting, J., Yokohama, Japan. Burnie, Captain
Cook, Mrs.
Dammann & Co., Messrs., Italy. Forest Department, Malacca.
Penang.
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French Convent.
Gardner, Captain
Thomson, St. Helens, Liverpool.
Henderson, F.
Hodgins, A. E.
Humphreys, J. D.
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Kew, London.
Mauritius.
Royal Engineers Department.
Seth, Mrs.
Smith, K.C.M.G., H.E. Sir C. C., Singapore. Storer, R. E., Colonel
Thomson, Captain, S.S. Nanzing.
Thurston, K.C.M.G., H.E. Sir J. B., Fiji. Travers, A. K.
Veitch & Sons, Messrs. J., London. Wilkinson, R. E., Major
Yeatherd, Mrs.
SALE OF PLANTS AND TREES.
31. The sales have been continued to about the same extent as last year. The sum of $343.38 was received for 3,143 plants and trees which were supplied to about 100 separate orders.
HERBARIUM.
32. The work of the year has consisted chiefly in preparing, mounting, and incorporating. The incorporation of specimens has not advanced, for want of time, so rapidly as could have been desired, but 705 specimens were placed in their final positions in the cabinets.
33. To Mr. W. T. THISELTON DYER, Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, Monsieur DE POLI, Paris, and the Rev. ERNST FABER, Shanghai, thanks are due for contributions of valuable and interesting specimens.
34. Several collections of dried plants have been sent to the Royal Gardens, Kew, in exchange, and that institution has also again rendered most valuable service in the identification of a considerable number of specimens submitted to it for comparison and determination.
35. I may here mention that the elaboration at Kew of the Index Flora Sinensis has been steadily pushed forward; the work has been completed to the Nat. Ord. Loganiaceæ.
36. The parts as published are put on record here and are available for reference to any one who desires to make use of them.
LIBRARY.
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37. I have to thank various Botanical and Forestry establishments for Reports and Contributions received. The following are the chief contributions :- Amaryllideæ, Baker. Purchased. Botanical Magazine, 1889. Do.
Bulletin (Kew) of Mis. Information, presented
by Director, Royal Gardens, Kew, 1889, Bulletin Nos. 10 and 11 Royal Botanic Gardens,
Trinidad.
Classified Catalogue of the Library of the Royal
Botanic Gardens, Ceylon.
Fern Allies, Baker. Purchased.
Flora of British India Part XV., presented by the
Royal Gardens, Kew.
Gardeners' Chronicle, 1889. Purchased. Hooker's Icones Plantarum, Vol. IX., presented
by the Bentham Trustees.
Index to the Streets, Houses and Leased Lots of the City of Victoria, Hongkong. Purchased.
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Journal of Botany, 1889. Purchased.
Plantæ Davidiana ex sinarum Imperio. Pur-
chased.
Proceedings of the Committee of Agri: Horticul-
tural Society of Madras.
Proceedings of the Central Agricultural Board
of Trinidad in its Inauguration.
Report, Acclimatisation Society of Queensland
for 1888.
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Botanic Gardens, Adelaide, 1888.
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Natal, 1888.
Saharanpur and Mus-
soorie, 1888. Singapore, 1888.