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...vegetable life on Krakatau since the catastrophe has now been published in Leiden by W. M. Docters van Leeuwen and was reviewed last week in the British journal Nature. In 1886, one-celled water plants, ferns and mosses had already established themselves. In 1905 a visitor found a large cycad (palmlike tree). Now the islands are covered with vegetation including tall trees, luxuriant shrubbery and thick grasses, comprising 271 species. Dr. Docters van Leeuwen estimates that 41% of this new life was borne to the islands by wind, 28% by ocean currents, 25% by birds, the rest...