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CAPT. F. KINGDON-WARD has presented more than 1,100 specimens collected on his recent expedition to Tibet to the Department of Botany of the British Museum (Natural History). Mr. R. F. Jones has made a collection of plants during the Percy Sladen Expedition to Lake Hula. The lake and its adjacent swamp, an area of about seventeen square miles, was concentrated upon, as the flora will disappear with drainage, and the flora of the hills of Palestine is fairly well known. The collection is of more than four hundred numbers and includes all groups. The investigation was mainly ecological, but the collection contains several new records of flowering plants. Lieut.-Colonel F. M. Bailey, British Envoy Extraordinary and Minister Plenipotentiary at Katmandu, Nepal, has presented 488 flowering plants and 42 vascular cryptogams. These make a useful addition to the valuable Nepalese collections already in the Department.
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Botanical Acquisitions at the Natural History Museum. Nature 137, 651 (1936). https://doi.org/10.1038/137651c0
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