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H.M. Stationery Office, 1917
 

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Página 345 - Plants and of Hardy Trees and Shrubs which, for the most part, have ripened at Kew during the year 1895.
Página 264 - Published under the direction of the general council of medical education and registration of the United Kingdom, pursuant to the medical act (1858).
Página 181 - M. Pierre adds some remarks which appear to me worthy of placing on record : — ' The bark of Strychnos nux-vomica is regarded in Cambodia- and Siam as a poison no less certain than that extracted from the seeds. The natives have remarked the fact, which is also believed to hold good in the case of cinchonas, that the bark has the most powerful properties when it has been covered with moss or otherwise protected from the action of light.
Página 26 - Notes upon a few of the Plants collected, chiefly near Nagasaki, Japan, and in the Islands of the Korean Archipelago, in the years 1862—63, by Mr. Richard Oldham, late Botanical Collector attached to the Royal Gardens, Kew. By Professor Oliver, Keeper of the Herbarium and Library, Kew.
Página 273 - OF all the fibre-yielding plants known to botanical science there is not one so well calculated to meet the pressing requirements of the Paper -trade as "BAMBOO," both as regards facility and economy of production, as well as the quality of the
Página 205 - It is with great regret that we have to record the death of seven of our members, namely, Henry Brown, of Daisy Hill, Bradford; James Brown, Rossington; J.
Página 25 - A HANDBOOK TO THE MUSEUMS OF ECONOMIC BOTANY OF THE ROYAL GARDENS, KEW.
Página 198 - ... Superintendent of the Trinidad Botanic Garden, has drawn my attention to some accounts given in Les Missions Catholiques for 1875, describing the surprising efficacy of a drug, the produce of a plant found in CochinChina, in the treatment of leprosy and rabies. The plant is known by the name of Hoâng-nan, and the description, which is of the vaguest kind, represents it as a climber, and its bark as the efficacious portion. "ML Pierre, the Director of the Botanic Garden at Saigon, has obtained...
Página 27 - Descriptions of three new genera of Plants in the Malayan Herbarium of the late Dr. AC Maingay: [Pteleocarpa, Ctenolophon, Maingaya~\.
Página 27 - The Botany of the Speke and Grant Expedition. An Enumeration of the Plants collected during the Journey of the late Captain JH Speke and Captain (now Lieut.-Col.) JA Grant, from Zanzibar to Egypt.

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