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The Pamphlet Collection of Sir Robert Stout: Volume 6

Museums

Museums.

The principal objects received during the past year have been:—Towards the end of the year the vast accumulated collections of vegetable products and matters relating to them were transferred from the department of the Secretary of State for India to the First Commissioner of Works, and deposited at Kew under conditions which were still under consideration at the end of the year. Arrangements are being taken for the disposal of the whole by intercalation with the existing collections at Kew, and by distribution of the duplicates.

Aitehison, Dr.; twenty specimens of vegetable products from Afghanistan.

Barclay, Gray, and Co.; samples of page break Sketch of Persea Nanmu, Ohv. page 39 oil-cakes from Elæis guinccnsis and Cocos nucifera.

Barrow Flax and Jute Company; specimens of Kalameit tapestry made of jute, also jute yarns.

Bradford, E.; fruits of Manchurian jute (Abutilon Avicenniæ), portions of plant of Manchurian indigo (Polygonum tinctorium), and leaves of Nan-muh tree.

Burgoyne, Burbidges, Messrs., & Co.; a collection of forty samples of drugs of vegetable origin, specimens of thymol prepared from Ptychotis Ajowan and menthol from Chinese oil of peppermint.

Canto, Don Jose da; sample of tea grown and manufactured at St. Michael's, Azores.

Carter, James, & Co.; eighteen specimens of forage grasses.

Chantre, C.; double Lisbon Copal, oil of Japan mint Mentha ar-vensis), and other specimens.

Christy, T.; various new com-mercial vegetable products.

Clark, J. & Co.; specimens of birchwood illustrating the manufacture of spools or reels.

Cooper, W. M.; (Ningpo) wood of Pai-cha (Euonymus sp.) used for carvings, frames, cabinets, &c., also carving in same wood representing opium smokers.

Cordua, Carl; seeds of four species of Lupinus.

Ducie, Earl; fruits of cherry plum (Prunus cerasifera, Ehr.).

Fry, J. S., and Sons; seeds of the various kinds of cocoa (Theobroma Cacao) known in commerce; also samples of prepared cocoa.

Fryer, John; samples of Poo-urh tea from Yunnan.

Gamble, J. S.; seventeen speci-mens of Indian woods.

Gardner, Joseph, and Sons; Cornel wood used for making bobbins for flax spinning, and specimens of the bobbins; also specimens of Caucasian box-wood, with "bushes" for "bushing" the ends of cotton and woollen bobbins.

Glasgow, City Industrial Museum; ancient hand quern, formerly used for grinding oats, from N. of Ireland.

Henriques, J.; basket made of Juucus sp. by peasants in neighbourhood of Coimbra; straw hat and straw veneered box made by pri-soners at Oporto; samples of various kinds of toothpicks made at Coimbra, and wood of Salix sp. used for making the same.

Home, John; trunk of Fiji Island sandal wood (Santalum Yasi, Seem.).

India Museum; its entire collec-tion of raw products of India.

Jenman, G. S.; caudices of Cyathea Nockii, pods of Pithecolobium Saman, fruits of Grias cauliflora, &c.

St. John, Spencer; fruits of Cherimoyer (Anona Cherimolia) from Lima.

Macfarlane, J. F., Edinburgh; seven samples of Opium alkaloids, specimens of Salicin and Bibirine sulphate.

Manning, Collyer, and Co.; five specimens of foreign-made hats of various vegetable fibres.

Ormcrod, Miss E.; various mor-phological specimens.

Parry, C. C.; vegetable products from Mexico.

Protector Fluid Co.; specimens of raw and boiled Gum euphorbium, and sample of anti-corrosive paint prepared from the gum, used for painting ships' bottoms.

Robinson, His Excellency Go-vernor; tobacco grown and cured in the Bahamas, and cigars made from the same.

Ross, Mrs.; specimens of flour of chestnuts (Castanea vulgaris), and cakes made from the same, Tuscany.

Routledge, T.; specimens of paper-stock prepared from barks of various Indian trees.

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Sargent, C. S.; specimens of coniferous woods.

Senier, Harold; "Loofah" flesh-brushes (Luffa ægyptiaca).

South Kensington Museum; twelve specimens illustrative of food and tobacco selected from Bethnal Green Museum.

Treutler, Dr.; specimens of wood and bark of Quercus Robur, var. pedunculata, showing arrested branchbuds.

Trevelyan, Sir W. C.; excrescence on trunk of ash tree. Result of the injury of the young stem by the larvae of Prays Curtisellus.