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Careful and intelligent travellers like Mr. HENRY are able to render great and valuable services to botany while on journeys undertaken for other purposes. I should always be glad to receive collec- tions from travellers and also to give such advice and assistance as might be needed in indicating the best methods of collecting and preserving the specimens.
56. To the Rev. E. FABER I am also indebted for a fine collection made in the neighbourhood of Ningpo and Shanghai. These plants are of much interest, but they have not, for want of time, been yet fully examined.
57. Mr. WM. M. COOPER, Her Majesty's Consul at Ningpo, is also entitled to best acknowledg- ments for botanical specimens and information of much interest which has been communicated froin time to time, as well as for consignments of seeds of useful plants.
58. Mr. WESTLAND has been successful in the discovery and collection of several new plants on the mainland and islands close to Hongkong, on a few occasions when he was able to get away from his duties in the Gardens.
59. The year has seen the commencement of the publication by the Linnean Society of the "Index Flora Sinensis" or an Ennumeration of all the known Plants of China. This establishment has been of inuch service in contributing to Kew Gardens material and information for use in the pro- duction of this very important work.
60. By the death at Amoy in June, of the late lamented Dr. HENRY FLETCHER HANCE, China lost not only its most learned and courteous botanist, but also the rich collection of dried plants, and an extensive botanical library. I at one time hoped that part of the herbarium might have been secured for Hongkong, but instead of this being so, the whole Herbarium has been purchased by the Trustees of the British Museum.
61. There is immense work to be yet done in China, not only in the discovery of a vast number of plants which it is certain are yet unknown to science, but also in the introduction and collection of information on plants used in medicine and domestic economy. In the advancement of such work, this Department, with increased facilities, could render still more important services.
62. LIBRARY.-My visit to England afforded a good opportunity to procure a number of books which were required to augment the library of the Department. With the aid which the Government was good enough to place at my disposal this opportunity was not lost.
63. Following is a list of the titles of works, including the periodicals which are taken, that were added during the year:
A new Species of Cycas, Dyer.
Balanophore, Griffith.
Botanical Magazine for 1885.
Botany of the Voyage of the Herald, Seemann.
Commelynace et Cyrtandraces, C. B. Clarke.
Cryptogamic Plants, Berkeley.
Descriptive aud Analytical Botany, Le Maout and Decaisne.
Dr. Cantors' Plants, Griffith.
Early European Researches into the Flora of China,
Enumeratio Plantarum, China; Bunge. Ferns of British India, Beddome.
Florula Adenensis, Anderson.
Flora British India, Parts XII. and XIII.
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Capensis, Harvey and Sonder.
Cochinchinensis, Loureira.
" Japonica, Siebold.
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Javi Blume.
of India, Roxburgh.
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of New Zealand, Hooker.
Vitiensis, Seemann.
Flowers, Fruits and Leaves, Lubbock.
Forest Flora of British Burma, Kurz.
Forests and Moisture, Brown.
Gardeners' Chronicle for 1886.
Gardens of the Sun, Burbidge.
Geographical Distribution of Ferns, Baker.
Geography of Plants, Daubeney.
Hydrology of South Africa, Brown.
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Icones Plantarum Sponte, China.
Icones Selectie Plantarum, Japan; Kaempfer. Illustrations of Natural Orders of Plants, Oliver. Journal of Botany, Vols. IX and XXIII.
Latin Dictionary, Smith.
Ling Nam, Henry.
Les Palmiers, de Kerchove. Manual of Botany, Balfour.
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of Timber Trees, Gamble.
Memoire sur la Famile Melastomacées.
Modern Forest Economy, Brown.
Nomenclature of Japanese Plants, Matsumura.
On Nepenthes, Hooker.
On the Movements of Climbing Plants, Darwin,
Pen Ts'ao Kang Mu.
Peruvian Bark, Markham.
Plante Davidiane, Franchet.
Preparation and Use of Rheea Fibre, J. Forbes Waston.
Reboisement in France, Brown.
Remarks on Gnetum, Griffith.
Reports on Insects Injurious to Plants, Whitehead.
Residence Among Chinese, Fortune.
Sea Weeds, Grey.
Select Extra, Tropical Plants, Mueller.
Social Life of Chinese, Doolittle.
Tea Districts. of China, Fortune.
Ternstroemiaceous Plants, Champion.
Text Book of Botany, Sachs. Wanderings in China, Fortune.
64. The parts which have been published during the year of the "Flora of British India,” the "Index Flora Sinensis" (several copies), and some parts of "Icones Plantarum" have been gener- ously presented by Mr. DYER, of Kew Gardens, for which donations I have to sincerely thank him.
65. I have also to acknowledge with thanks, the various Reports of the Indian Forest Depart- ment, which have been generously contributed as they were published.
66. In addition to these I am also indebted for various Annual Reports and Papers of the numerous Indian and Colonial Botanic Gardens with which we are in correspondence.
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