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Eogers, 120 phanerogams from Ehodesia and Congo District ; 

 T. O. Weigel, 25 fungi, Mycotlieca Boreali-Africana, fasc. iv., 

 prepared by E. Maire ; F. Wilms, 399 phanerogams and 69 crypto- 

 gams collected in Natal by H. Eudatis, and 93 phanerogams 

 collected in Uganda by G. Scheffler. 



America. — E. Bartholomew, 500 fungi Columbiani, cent, 

 xxxviii.-xlii., and 300 North American Uredineales, cent, vi.-viii. ; 

 E. W. Berger, exhibition specimens and photographs of parasitic 

 fungi on scale insects ; T. S. Brandegee, 302 phanerogams and 

 30 ferns collected in Mexico by C. A. Purpus ; W. E. Broadway, 

 273 phanerogams and 27 cryptogams from Tobago ; O. Buchtien, 

 147 phanerogams and 53 vascular cryptogams from Bolivia ; 

 Collins, Holden, & Setchell, 50 algae, Phycotheca Boreali-Ameri- 

 cana, fasc. xxxviii. (per Dulau & Co.) ; E. Hassler, 402 phanerogams 

 and 11 cryptogams from Paraguay ; C. C. Haynes, 20 American 

 hepaticse, decades xi., xii. ; E. M. Eeineck, 10 selected species of 

 mosses, mostly from Central America ; H. von Tiirckheim, 226 

 phanerogams and 15 vascular cryptogams from Guatemala (per 

 T. O. Weigel) ; I. Urban, 633 phanerogams and 142 cryptogams 

 collected in St. Domingo by M. Fuertes. 



General.- — Through Dulau d- Co. — H. Eehm, 118 Fungi, Asco- 

 mycetes exsiccati, fasc. lii., liii. ; H. Sydow, 150 Fungi exotici 

 exsiccati, fasc. ii.-iv. ; P. Sydow, 50 Uredinece, fasc. li., 25 Ustila- 

 ginecs, fasc. xii., and 25 Phycomycetes and Protomycetes. 



Through V. Schroeder. — 101 ferns, mostly tropical, determined 

 by E. Eosenstock. 



(3) By Exchange of Duplicates. 

 Oakes Ames, 102 orchids from the Philippine Islands ; Director, 

 Hungarian National Museum, Budapest, Flora Hungarica ex- 

 siccata, cent. i. ; Prof. K. Domin, 100 phanerogams from Monte- 

 negro ; Director, Eoyal Gardens, Kew, 11 plants from Keeling 

 Island ; Botanist, Bureau of Science, Manila, 1779 phanerogams 

 and 868 cryptogams, mainly from the Philippine Islands ; Director, 

 Botanical Garden, New York, 625 phanerogams and 31 crypto- 

 gams from Bermuda, Cuba, and Jamaica ; Department of Botany, 

 Eiksmuseet, Stockholm, 159 Brazilian Grasses ; Director, National 

 Herbarium, Sydney, 48 Australian plants ; Curator, Botanical 

 Department, Hofmuseum, Vienna, 100 Kryptogamae exsiccatse, 

 cent, xxi., mostly European ; Director, Botanic Garden and 

 Institute of the University, Vienna, 400 plants, Flora exsiccata 

 Austro-Hungarica, cent, xxxvi.-xl. ; Curator, U.S. National Her- 

 barium, Washington, 141 West Indian Grasses ; Director, Botanic 

 Gardens, Zurich, 3 plants from Cameroons. 



(4) Departmental Library . 

 A collection of 11,325 plates and original drawings formed by 

 Isaac Swainson in the eighteenth century was presented by H. S. 

 Cowper, Esq. ; a series of pencil sketches principally of pollen 

 grains, with MS. notes and observations by the late Francis 

 Buckell, was presented by his son Edward Buckell, Esq. 



