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and an interesting series of preparations of Mycoidea imrasitica, by 

 Dr. Cunningham, in illustration of his Memoir in the ' Trans. Linn. 

 Soc.,' has been presented by the Council of that Society. 



Specimens of Alg^e from Eabenhorst, AVittrock and Nordstedt, 

 and of Hepatic£e from Eabenhorst, have been incorporated in the 

 Herbarium. 



The number of visits during the year 1878, paid to the Her- 

 barium for scientific enquiry or research, was 1085. 



The following foreign Botanists may be specified as having 

 used the Herbarium in prosecuting their various studies : — Dr. 

 Baillon, of Paris, for his works on Systematic Botany ; M. Casimh* 

 DeCandolle, of Geneva, for his Monograph on Meliacea ; Prof. 

 Reichenbach, of Hamburg, for his works on Orcliidem ; Mr. T. P. 

 James, of Cambridge, United States, for his works on Mosses ; 

 M. Barbey, of Geneva, for his Monograph on Epilohium ; Dr. 

 Wittmack, of Berlin, for his Monograph on Marc(jraviace<B ; and 

 Baron von Ettingshausen, for his work on the Tertiary Plants of 

 Britain. Among British Botanists the following may be specified : — 

 Prof. Bentley, in connection with Bentley and Trimen's ' Medicinal 

 Plants'; Mr. C. B. Clarke, for his work on the Flora of India ; 

 Mr. J. G. Baker, for his various systematic memohs ; Dr. I. B. 

 Balfour, for his Monograph of the Pandanacea ; the Eev. J. M. 

 Crombie, Mr. Larbalestier, and Mr. Joshua, in connection with 

 their investigations into British Lichens ; Mr. Holmes, Curator of 

 the Museum of the Pharmaceutical Society, for his investigations 

 in connection with officinal plants ; Mr. Christy, in the prosecution 

 of his inquiries into the plants of commerce ; Dr. Braithwaite, for 

 his works on British Mosses ; Mr. Broome and Mr. Howse, for 

 the investigation of British Fungi ; the Messrs. Groves, for their 

 work on Characea : Mr. J. S. Gardner, for his investigations into 

 the plants of the Tertiary Clays of Bournemouth ; and Messrs. 

 Packe, De Crespigny, Grindon, Churchill, Stratton, Bennett, Mansel- 

 Plej^dell, Glasspoole, Boulger, Gray, Jackson, and Newbould, for 

 the critical study of European and British Plants. 



The Natice Flants of Victoria, succinctly defined by Baron Feed. 

 VON Mueller," C.M.G., &c. Parti. Melbourne, 1879. 

 The indefatigable Government Botanist of Victoria has rapidly 

 followed up his small volume of ' Botanic Teachings "•' by a 

 l^opular systematic Flora, the first part of v\diich, now before us, 

 contains the polypetalous Orders, among which are intercalated 

 in their supposed places the apetalous or monochlamydeous ones. 

 Each species is shortly described in very plain language, synonyms 

 are omitted, and very few references are given ; it would have been 

 useful to have had in all cases a citation of the ' Flora Australiensis.' 

 The derivations of the names and the localities and distribution are 

 stated, and a special feature in the book is the illustration of every 

 Order by an excellent series of wood-cut illustrations intercalated 

 in the text. All introduced weeds, however common, are designedly 

 omitted. The Colonial schools are fortunate in already possessing an 



* 'Journ. Bot.,'l878, p. 2t). 



