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5. Camellias and varioiiH other Plants, exhibited by William 

 Paul, F.L.S. 



G. Drawings of INfarine Animals and Dredging-apparatus, by 

 Henry C Sorby, F.li.S. 



7. Models of Insectivorous Plants, by Gr. S. Boulger, P.L.S. 



8. A set ies of the British Stalk-eyed Crustacea and Cases of 

 Lepidoptera, by J. T. Carrington, F.L.S. 



9. Jiisectivorous and Orchidaceous Plants, by Messrs, Veitch 

 and AVilliams. 



I cannot omit to mention tlie great Meeting of the Interna- 

 tional Medical Congress held liere just a year ago, and which was 

 so successful. Three of the Sections, — namely, those of Anatomy, 

 of Diseases of the Skin, and of Diseases of the Teeth — held their 

 sittiiigs in our rooms. The Council had much pleasure in placing 

 them at the disposal of the Members of the Congress ; and I am 

 sure that in doing so they were acting in accordance with the 

 general wishes of the Society. 



To the general success of the Jubilee Meeting of the British 

 Association at York, the Biological Section, or, I might say, 

 Sections, contributed their full share. The papers presented 

 were numerous and interesting. 



An important event of the last year has been the removal of the 

 Botanical Collections of the British Museum from the old build- 

 ings in Bloomsbury to the new Natural-History Museum at 

 South Kensington. On this subject Mr. Carruthers has been 

 good enough to supply me with the f olloAving information, w^hich . 

 I shall give almost in his own words. 



The increased space which the erection of the new building has 

 enabled the Trustees to devote to the Botanical Collections, and 

 which was urgently needed, has secured the required accommo- 

 dation for the Herbarium, and the opportunity of exhibiting in 

 the public gallery such a representation of the Vegetable Kingdom 

 as may give a visitor some notion of the groups of which it is com- 

 posed, of their chief characteristics, and their geological and geo- 

 graphical distribution. 



The Herbarium has been arranged in a continuous series. The 

 Flowering Plants, occupying the great gallery, are arranged as 

 regards the genera in the order of Bentham and Hooker's ' Genera 

 Plantarum,' while the species follow the order of DeCandolle's 

 ' Prodromus,' or of more recent monographs of particular orders. 

 The Vascular Cryptogams occupy cabinets in the pavilion ; and 

 the Cellular Plants are placed in two rooms on a higher floor of 

 the pavilion, where great facilities exist for the minute examina- 

 tions of these plants. 



The earlier collections formed by Sir Hans Sloane are contained 



in more than 300 folio volumes, and comprise his own plants from 



Jamaica and plants from the first botanical explorers, such as 



Kamel, Ka?mpfer, Cunningham, Bartram, Catesby, and Claytou. 



In 1827 Eobert Brown transferred to the Trustees of the 



