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24. The Director of the Royal Gardens, Kew, presented a collection of about 200 dried specimens of plants, chiefly Chinese.

25. Dr. AUGUSTINE HENRY also sent collections amounting to 767 specimens which he had collected in South Formosa during his residence there.

26. Specimens were also received from Dr. GEORGE KING, F.R.S., &c., Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta ; and from the Rev. Father BODINIER, of Hongkong plants, many of which were found last year by Father BODINIER for the first time in Hongkong.

Father BODINIER has in his botanical researches made constant use of the herbarium and library throughout the year, and he has expressed his high appreciation of their usefulness to him in his studies.

27. The following is the list of books, journals, reports, &c., received :- Agricultural Journal of the Leeward Island, 1894.

From Dept. of Agriculture

of the Cape Colony, 1894. Bulletin (Brisbane) of the Department of Agri-

culture, 1893.

Bulletin (Jamaica) of Botanical Dept. 1893-1894. Bulletin (Kew) of Miscellaneous Information

1894.

Bulletin (Grenada) of Miscellaneous Information

1894.

Bulletin (Trinidad) of Miscellaneous Information

1894.

Bulletin Koloniaal Museum to Haarlem Maart

1894.

Bulletin Cornell University Agricultural Experi-

ment Station, Ithaca, N. Y.

Bulletin Calumet Plantation, 1890-1892. By

Hubert Edson, Chemist.

Bulletin University of California, Agricultural

Station, 1894.

Botanical Magazine for 1894. Purchased. Catalogue of the Flowering Plants and Ferns

found growing wild in the Island of Penang. By C. Curtis, Esq., F.L.S.

Circular Notes Nos. 6 and 7. From Botanical

Department, Trinidad.

Flore Florestière de la Cochinchine. Dis septieme

Fascicule 1891. From Royal Gardens, Kew. Flora of British India, Part XX 1894. From

Royal Gardens, Kew. Gardeners' Chronicle for 1894. Handbook of Imperial Institute. From Govern-

ment Printing Office, Calcutta.

Purchased.

Hooker's Icones Plantarum Vol. II. Part IV and Vol. III Part IV. From the Bentham Trus- tees, through Kew.

Index Flora Sinensis, Part XI. From Royal

Gardens, Kew.

Index Kewensis Plantarum Phanerogamarum

nomina et synonyma omnium. Specierum a Linnæo usque adannum. Fasc. I, II, and III. Purchased.

Indian Forest Reports.

Forest Administration in central Provinces of

India, 1891-93.

Forest Administration in Madras, 1892-93.

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in Baluchistan, 1892-93.

of the Forest Survey Branch in India, 1892-93. Forest Administration in Ajmere Merwara,

1892-93.

Forest Administration in Hyderabad Assigned

Districts, 1892-93.

Forest Administration in Provinces of Assam,

1892-93.

Forest Administration in Burma, 1892-93.

in N. W. P. and Oudh,

1893.

Forest Administration in the Bombay Presidency,

1892-93.

Forest Administration in the Lower Provinces of

Punjab, 1892-93.

Forest Administration in Coorg, 1892-93.

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in Andamans, 1892-93. Journal of Botany for 1894. Purchased. Review of Forest Administration in British India,

1892-93.

Official Guide to the Museums of Economic Botanic, 1893. From Royal Gardens, Kew. Plantas novas cultivadas no Jardim Botanico do

Rio de Janeiro, 1893-94.

Report on the Royal Botanic Gardens, Ceylon,

1893.

Report on the Gardens & Forests Department,

Straits Settlements, 1893.

Report on the Botanic Gardens, Natal, 1893. Report on Diseases affecting the Sugar-Cane in

Barbados. By C. A. Barber, F.L.S. Report of the Department of Agriculture, Brisba-

be, 1892-93.

Report of the Royal Gardens, Trinidad, 1893. Report of the Royal Botanic Gardens, Calcutta,

1893-94.

Report on the Agricultural work in the Botanic

Gardens, British Guiana, 1893. Report for the Quarter ended 30th June, 1894, on

the Botanic Station Colony of Lagos, Africa. Report on Mussouri Botanic Gardens, 1894. Report of work of the Agricultural Experiment Sta-

tion of the University of California, 1891-92. Report on the Progress and Condition of the Government Saharanpur and Mussourie Gar- dens, 1893.

Report on the Government Botanic Gardens and

Parks, Bangalore, 1892-93.

Rice Growing and its Preparation for Markets,

Brisbane, 1894.

Record Vol. V. No. 1 of U. S. Dept. of Agricul-

ture, Office of Experiment Station, 1893. Supplement to the Leeward Islands Gazette, 1893. Science Papers, Pharmacological and Botanical. By Daniel Hanbury, F.R.S. From T. Han- bury, F.L.S., Mortala.

PLAN OF GARDENS.

28. I am pleased to say that the Honourable the Director of Public Works bas kindly undertaken to provide a plan of the Gardens. When it is complete I purpose producing a Guide to the Gardens which should be of use to visitors.