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The following collections have been either entirely or in part 

 incorporated in the General Herbarium, The plants of Aden, the 

 Somali Country, and Zanzibar, collected by Dr. Hildebrandt ; of 

 Madagascar, by Hilsenberg and Bojer, and Thompson ; of Mauritius, by 

 Anblet and Roxburgh ; of Asia Minor, by Kotschy ; of India, by 

 Hooker and Thomson ; of the Himalayas, by Strachey and Winter- 

 bottom ; of Hong Kong, by the Kev. James Laraont ; of Japan, by 

 Hughes ; of jS'orth America, by Sir John Richardson ; and of South 

 America by Ruiz and Pavon. 



The principal acquisitions of the past year have been the additions 

 made to the cryptogamic collections. Some of these deserve special 

 notice. A large series of Lichens has been obtained from the Herba- 

 rium of Dr. Nylander, of Paris ; and the extensive Lichen Herbarium 

 of Isaac Carroll has been purchased, consisting of more than 4000 

 specimens, and 260 original drawings ; this is especially rich in Irish 

 specimens, containing many that are rare, and some that are unique, 

 besides a large exotic collection of specimens from Schserer, Hepp, 

 and Ny lander. 



But the most important acquisition is the Moss Herbarium of the 

 late William Wilson, of Warrington* the remaining portion of which 

 was purchased from his executors during the year. Mr. Wilson had 

 devoted his life to the study of Mosses, was the author of the standard 

 work on '' British Mosses," and of numerous memoirs on exotic 

 species. His extensive Herbarium contains the type specimens of 

 those various works, and it abounds in original drawings prepared 

 with singular accuracy, and with manuscript notes of great critical 

 value. It consists of a collection of British Mosses and JimgermanniecB, 

 as well as a collection of foreign specimens of these two orders. The 

 British Herbarium is accompanied with an extensive correspondence 

 with Muscologists, and includes numerous authentic specimens from 

 Dawson Turner, Th. Taylor, Sir William Hooker, and other authors 

 of species. Mr. AYilson's Herbarium of foreign Mosses contains type 

 specimens from the Herbaria of Montagne, Bruch, Schimper, Angstrom, 

 Mougeot, Zetterstedt, Hooker, Arnott, the Paris Museum, &c. Be- 

 sides this Herbarium there are many separate collections, of which 

 the following may be specified : — The sets of Mosses employed by 

 Wilson in preparing the descriptions of Drummond's Mosses of the 

 Southern IJnited States ; of Captain Sir J. C. Ross's Antarctic Expe- 

 dition ; and of Seemann's Voyage of the " Herald." Collections from 

 Europe by Schimper, Bartsch, Bruch, Gottsche, Mougeot, iS'estler, 

 Angstrom, Zetterstedt, Spruce, Carroll, &c. ; from Asia, by AVallich, 

 Wight, Strachey, Winterbottom, Blake, Gough, Gardner, Hooker, 

 Thomson, Walker, Junghuhn, &c. ; from Africa, by Zeyher (Cape of 

 Good Hope), Bove (Algiers), Vogel (the Niger Expedition). Salwey 

 (Madeira), Webb and Lemann (Canary Isles) ; from New Zealand, by 

 Colenso, Bolton, Sinclair, Bid will, Joliffe, Knight, Buchanan, &c. ; 

 from Tasmania, by Gunn, Lyall, Oldfield, &c. ; from the Pacific Isles, 

 by Beechey and Bid will ; from North America, by Parker, Johnstone, 

 Nuttall, Lea, Sullivant, Greene, Scouler, Tainturier, &c. ; from 

 Jamaica, by McEadyen, Purdie, Wilson, and McNab ; from New 

 Granada, by Purdie ; Peru, by Matthews and Cuming ; Brazil, by 

 Gillies, ;^[und, and Douglas ; Cape Horn, by Davies ; and Terra del 



