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Specimens of plants, fruits and woods have been received for determination from Peking, Shanghai, Canton, Hainan and other parts of China. Specimens of Aeginetia indica prepared with great care for the purpose of exhibiting their parasitism were submitted for examination by His Excellency Sir HENRY BLAKE on several occasions during the summer. In four cases the haustoria were attached to grass roots, in the fifth to the root of a shrub.
Thie chief constributors of local specimens for preservation in the Herbarium were His Excellency and Lady BLAKE and Colonel BIRDWOOD.
In appendix A will be found a list prepared by Mr. TUTCHER of the year's additions to the Hongkong Flora.
LIBRARY.
All the books in the Library were poisoned and varnished during the year. Press number were placed on the books and corresponding ones on the shelves to facilitate their proper replacing by the Chinese Assistants.
The following works were presented :~-
Index Florae Sinensis, Hemsley, (part), presented by the Director, Royal
Botanic Gardens, Kew.
Hooker's Icones Plantarum, 1868-1885, ditto.
Kew Handbook of Coniferae, 2nd Elition, ditto.
Icones Florae Japonicue, (part), presented by the Imperial University of
Tokyo.
New Chinese Plants, Dunn, presented by the Author.
Hooker's Icones Plantarum, (current parts), presented by Bentham Trustees. Natal Plants, Medley Wood, (current parts), presented by the Author.
The Genus Eucalyptus, Maiden, presented by the Autbor.
List of Plants collected in Aizu, Hayata, presented by the Author.
Die Bot. Institute der Hamburg, Voigt, presented by the Author.
Synopsis of the Genus Lonicera, Rehder, presented by Prof. C. S. SARGENT. Deutsch-englisches Forstwörterbuch, Philipp, presented by the Her M. HASS. Technical Reports from the Imperial Institute, presented by His Excellency
Sir HENRY BLAKE.
The Cultivation of Bamboos in Japan, Satow, presented by the Author, Important Philippine Woods, Ahern, presented by the Author.
Le Collezioni di G. E. Rumpf, Martelli, presented by the Author. Calalogues and Reports, presented by Pharmaceutical Society of Great Britain.
Periodicals were received from the following establishments :-
Agricultural Departments of Cape Colony, Hawaii, Hanoi, London, Manila, Straits Settlements. United States, University of California, Victoria, West Indies, and Western Australia.
Office of the Reporter upon Economic Products to the Government of India. Agri-horticultural Society of Madras.
Botanic Gardens at Agra, Brussels, Calcutta, Ceylon, Jamaica, Kew, Lagos, Mysore, Natal, Saharanpur, St. Lucia, Straits Settlements, and Trinidad. Government Cinchona Plantation in Bengal.
Forestry Reports were received from India relating to Baluchistan, Bengal, the Central Provinces, Coorg, Dehra Dun (Forest School), Hyderabad, Madras, Punjab and from Manila.
To the donors of such works as have not been separately acknowledged our best thanks are now due.
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