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14. Interchange of Plants and Seeds. The following were the chief donors of plants, seeds, animals, or herbarium specimens:-

Acclimatising Association, South Ca-

lifornia.

Alves, J. L. de

Blake, Lady

Bondonnet, Lt.-Col., Kwangchauwan.

Botanic Gardens, Bangalore.

Calcutta.

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Jamaica.

Melbourne.

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Nagpur. Ootacamund.

Botanic Gardens, Singapore.

Dealy, T. K.

Forteath, H. H., Rangoon.

Hallifax, E. R.

Hayata, H., Tokyo.

Hodgins, Capt. Ă. E.

Ortif, Rev. J.

Perkins, Chas.

Sanders, E. D.

Seth, Mrs. A.

Sprenger, Cav. C., Vomero, Napoli. Wilkinson, E. D.

15. The chief recipients of plants and seeds were:----

Agricultural and Botanical Departinent,

Sierra Leone.

Barton, J.

Blake, Lady

Botanic Station, Lagos.

Department of Agriculture, Zanzibar.

Gardens and Forests, Mauritius.

Government Civil Hospital.

Johnstone, Miss

Joshua, Bro., Penang.

Hodgins, Capt. A. E.

James, B. ᏞᎥ Pak.

May, Mrs. F. H.

Robinson, Mrs. E. G.

Roebelen, C.

Sanders, E. D.

Seth, Mrs. A.

Tang Yui-san.

Pearce, Rev. T.

Veitch, Messrs. J., & Sons, Chelsea. Victoria Gaol.

16. Rainfall. The total rainfall for the year, as registered in the Botanic Gardens, was 110.03 inches. The first ten years' record is now complete, and last year's fall is 23.52 inches above the average for that period (1893-1902). The fall for the first four months of the year was 5.57 inches below the average

for the cor- responding months of the last ten years. In May, June, July and August 97.65 inches were registered, being 39.68 inches above the average for the same months during the last decade. The last four months of the year showed a fall below the average, for the ten years' period, of 10.55 inches. The greatest fall was in August, 31.95 inches, and the smallest in February, 0.02 inches. Statistics are given in Appendices A and B.

17. Herbarium and Library.—Very little progress has been made with Her- barium work for some years, and there is a mass of material awaiting incorporation, Many books also require binding. Annual Reports, Bulletins, &c., have been received from the under-mentioned Establishments, to the chiefs of whom the thanks of the Department are due :—

British Guiana, Calcutta, Ceylon, Gold Coast, Grenada, Jamaica, Kolonial Museum, Haarlem; Natal, New South Wales, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Sarharanpur, Straits Settlements, Trinidad; the Agricultural Departments of Cape of Good Hope, England, Queensland, United States of America, University of California, West Indies, and Zanzibar; Forest Administration in Assam, Ajmer-merwara, Baluschistan, Bengal, Bombay, Burma, Central Provinces, Coorg, Dehra, Dun, Hyderabad, Madras, North-west Provinces and Oudh, Punjab, and Western Australia.

Purchased:-

The Bambuse of British India.

Gardeners' Chronicle, 1902.

Journal of Botany, 1902.

Botanical Magazine, 1902.

Presented:

Hooker's Icones Plantarum, by the Bentham Trustees through Royal

Gardens, Kew.

Kew Bulletin, Supplements, by the Royal Gardens, Kew.

Index Flora Sinensis, part XIII, Royal Gardens, Kew.