316 NOTICES OF BOOKS AND MEMOIRS. 



Argentine llepublic, collected by Lorentz ; of the Arctic Eegions, 

 by various collectors ; the Ferns of Africa and Java, by various 

 collectors; and the Cellular plants collected in the " Challenger" 

 Expedition, by Moscley. Besides these, extensive series of plants, 

 fi*om various regions and by different collectors, belonging to the 

 Orders Ler/uminosfr, Passifiorc(C, Proteacem, and Filices, have been 

 incorporated with the General Herbarium. 



The separation of the study set of the great Herbarium of 

 Australian Plants, collected by Kobert Brown, and bequeathed to 

 the Trustees by J. J. Bennett, has been completed, and this 

 extensive series of plants, accompanied with the original manu- 

 script notes, has been incorporated in the General Herbarium. 



The transcription of the original labels and the separation of 

 the collection of Tropical African plants made by Dr. Wehvitsch 

 have been completed, with the exception of those relating to the 

 collection of fruits and seeds, which is making rapid progress. 



The large Herbarium of Shuttleworth, acquired in 1877, has 

 been systematically arranged, and some of the more important 

 desiderata have been incorporated in the General Herbarium. 

 The large series of plants from the Southern States of North 

 America, collected by Eugel, has been separated from this 

 Herbarium, and the Polypetalous Orders have been placed in the 

 General Herbarium. 



The sheets of the Herbarium of John Bay, presented to the 

 ^Museum by the Apothecaries Company, have been carefully 

 re-mounted on cartridge paper, and placed for preservation and 

 easy reference in solan der cases. 



The whole of the different collections of British Phanerogamous 

 Plants, except those contained in the volumes of the Sloanean 

 Herbarium, have been incorporated in the British Herbarium, 

 and this Herbarium has been completely revised and re-arranged 

 during the year. Progress is being made in laying down the 

 extensive collections of Mosses of the late W. Wilson. The British 

 Elvellacei have been greatly added to and completely re-arranged. 



The recently-formed Collection of Drawings and Illustrations 

 of Plants has received the large addition of 8025 engravings and 42 

 original drawings, and progress has been made in the systematic 

 arrangement of the whole collection for convenient reference. 



The princixjal additions to the Herbarium during the year have 

 been plants from Greece, by Pichler; from Palestine, by Post; from 

 Eastern Lapland, by Fcllman; from Sitka, by Comrie; from Eastern 

 Tropical Africa, by Hildebrandt; from Western Tropical Africa, by 

 Kalbreyer, presented by the Messrs. Veitch ; from Australia, 

 presented by Baron von Mueller; from the Samoan Islands, by 

 Whitmee; from Piarotonga, by Wyatt Gill; from Brazil, by 

 Warming, presented by W. P. Hiern, Esq. and illustrating his 

 memoirs on Warming's i^lants ; from Paraguay, by Balansa ; from 

 Uruguay and the Argentine Eepublic, by Lorentz ; and from 

 Trinidad, by Fendler. 



Collections of Fungi from Saccardo, Eehm, Thuemen, Kunze, 

 Babenhorst, and Eavenal, have been added to the Herbarium ; 



