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stems of Tree-ferns from Jamaica : 3 stems of Cyathea from South 

 Africa : Stems of Ahophila armata, Pr., and Cyathea arhorea, Sm., from 

 Jamaica, and portions of the stems of two Palms, presented by the Pre- 

 sident and Council of the Geological Society : 2 trunks of Cycaa media, 

 P. Br., from Australia : Specimens of injuries done to rarioua woods, 

 presented by Professor T. Kupert Jones : Specimens of injured Myrtle, 

 presented by M. Moggridge, Esq. : 170 preparations illustrating the 

 structure and fructification of British Pungi, prepared by M. C. 

 Cooke. 



III.— 7b ilw Fossil Series. 



Species of Dadoxylon found near Leicester, presented by James 

 Plant, Esq. : 25 species of Plants from the Carboniferous rocks of N. 

 America: 17 specimens of Dadoxylon and other Fossil Plants from 

 the Carboniferous rocks of Lancashire : 3 specimens of Coniferous 

 wood from the Tertiary rocks of Greenland, presented by Ed. 

 "Whymper, Esq. : Specimen of a Eossil Fern stem from Queensland, 

 presented by R. Daintree, Esq. : 3 Fruits from the London Clay, pre- 

 sented by Jas. Wright, Esq., F.G.S. : A collection of Fossil Plants 

 from New Zealand, Scotland, &c., presented by Dr. Lauder Lindsay. 



The number of visits paid during the year to the Herbarium for 

 scientific inquiry or research was 1266. The following foreign 

 botanists may be specified as having used the Herbarium in prose- 

 cuting their various studies: — Professor Strasburger, of Jena; Pro- 

 fessor Eeichenbach, of Hamburg ; Professor Caruel, of Pisa ; Br. 

 Schweinfurth, of Cairo ; and Br. Farlow, of America. Of British 

 botanists the following may be specified : — Mr. J. Miers, Br. M. T. 

 Masters, Professor Lawson, Mr. W. P. Hiern, Mr. B. Hanbury, Br. 

 Braithwaite, the Rev. J. M. Crombie, Mr. E. M. Holmes, Mr. M. C. 

 Cooke, Mr. A. AV. Bennett, Mr. Leo Grindon, ]\Jr. B. B. Jackson, 

 Rev. W. W. Kewbould, Mr. R. A. Pryor. 



CLIMATE ANB VEGETATION OF KERGUELEN'S ISLANB. 



The most salient features of the landscape are the basaltic hills, with 

 irregular terraces of rock on their sides and broken cliffs at their 

 summits. In lieu of grass, their slopes are clothed with banks and 

 boulderrlike clumps of Azorella Selago, excepting where rich damp 

 loam affords a soil suitable for the Accena and the Pringlea. Here 

 and there a fern {Lomaria) and grass {Festuca) grow in the interspaces 

 of the other plants. 



The climate of Royal Sound is far warmer and drier than we were 

 led to expect it would be. In November the weather was very 

 pleasant ; since then it has deteriorated, though the snow has not 



again covered the ground as it did when we first arrived 



. . . Corresponding with the unlooked-for superiority of climate a 

 difference is noticeable in the vegetation of this part of the island. 

 Some plants which occur at both extremities of the country display in 



