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tions, from Miss A. L. Smith ; 40 lichens of North England, from 

 Kev. W. Johnson ; 813 Bavarian lichens, from Britzelmayr ; 20 

 rare European lichens, from Zahlbruckner ; 1214 coloured draw- 

 ings of lichens, prepared by the late Dr. K. Deakin and illustrating 

 his lichen herbarium, which was presented to the Department in 

 1889, from Hutchinson; 76 marine algae of South Australia, from 

 Mrs. Harold ; 100 North American algae from Collins, Holden, 

 and Setchell ; 40 microscope preparations of diatoms and 105 of 

 fresh -water algae and Peridiniece from material collected by Dr. 

 W. A. Cunnington in the East African Lakes, from West ; 1007 

 microscope preparations of British mosses, from Sherrin ; 50 

 mosses of Malay Archipelago, from Fleischer ; 20 North American 

 Hepaticcz, from Haynes ; 424 mosses and hepatics of India, 74 of 

 Japanese islands, 143 of British New Guinea, 50 of Tasmania, 

 132 of Guatemala, from Levier ; 59 mosses of France, from Husnot ; 

 100 mosses of South Europe, from Fleischer and Warnstorf ; 125 

 cryptogams of Germany, Austria, and Switzerland, from Migula ; 

 116 coloured drawings of Scottish cryptogams by Greville, from 

 Parritt. 



Among the acquisitions by purchase special mention should be 

 made of the collection of marine algae made by the late E. A. L. 

 Batters, consisting of more than 10,000 British and 3000 foreign 

 specimens, and more than 3000 microscope preparations. The 

 slides add much to the facilities for studying the algae, and the 

 whole collection affords a good representation of the work done in 

 recent years towards ascertaining the distribution of the species 

 around the coasts of the British Islands. 



Acquisitions, 1909. 



The following additions have been made to the collections by 

 presentation : — The herbarium of the late Eev. R. P. Murray, from 

 Mrs. R. P. Murray ; 12 specimens of seeds from Sikkim, from 

 Capt. Gage ; 22 phanerogams from New Guinea, from Capt. F. R. 

 Barton ; 138 phanerogams from the Curator of the Sarawak 

 Museum ; 54 phanerogams from the neighbourhood of Shanghai, 

 from F. W. Styan ; 78 phanerogams and 15 cryptogams from 

 Fiji, from Miss L. Gibbs ; 24 phanerogams from West Australia, 

 from O. H. Sargent ; 9 specimens of Australian woods from 

 Millar's Karri and Jarrah Co. ; 32 phanerogams and 4 ferns from 

 South Nigeria, from A. E. Kitson ; 114 phanerogams and 1 crypto- 

 gam from Nigeria, from C. C. Yates ; 27 phanerogams from 

 Uganda, from E. Brown; 118 specimens from Rhodesia, from 

 E. C. Chubb ; 43 phanerogams from Rhodesia, from Dr. R. F. 

 Rand ; 8 specimens of fruits from West Indies, from A. E. Aspi- 

 nall; 390 specimens from Chili, from R. M. Middleton; 40 

 phanerogams from Patagonia, from Dr. P. Dusen ; 9 specimens 

 of cultivated plants from Walter Ledger ; 73 ferns of New Zealand 

 and 100 ferns of tropical Asia, from Llewellyn Lewis ; 7 growth- 

 forms of Asplenium Braclleyi, from Tennessee, from R. M. Middle- 

 ton ; 227 algae of Barbados, from the executors of the late Miss 



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