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Anna Vickers; 48 tubes of plankton collected in the African Lakes, 

 by Dr. W. A. Cunnington, from the Tanganyika Committee ; 

 33 marine algae of the Danish West Indies, from Dr. F. Borgesen; 

 26 Australian lichens, from Edwin Cheel ; 23 mycetozoa from the 

 Philippine Islands, from E. D. Merrill. 



The additions to the British Herbarium by presentation have 

 been : — The British Herbarium of the late John Benbow, of 

 Uxbridge, from A. J. Benbow; 35 specimens from C. E. Salmon ; 

 17 specimens from Rev. E. F. Linton ; 205 specimens from Rev. 

 E. S. Marshall ; 15 specimens from W. H. Beeby ; 5 specimens 

 from Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell ; 74 specimens of rubi from Rev. 

 W. Moyle Rogers ; 30 specimens of potamogetons from A. Bennett ; 

 3 specimens from W. P. Hiern ; 2 specimens of diseases of culti- 

 vated trees, by W. Gamble ; 2 rare British marine algae, by A. D. 

 Cotton ; 2 fungal diseases of insects, by E. R. Bankes; microscope 

 preparations from a Scottish glacial peat deposit, by H. N. 

 Dixon. 



The following additions have been made by exchange of 

 duplicates : — 265 phanerogams and 28 ferns from Malaya, from 

 the Director of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore ; 139 phanerogams 

 and 6 cryptogams from South Africa, collected by R. Schlechter, 

 from the Director of the Botanic Museum, Zurich ; 78 phanero- 

 gams from South Africa, from Dr. H. Bolus, Cape Town ; 18 

 specimens West Australian orchids, from Oswald Sargent, West 

 Australia ; 250 ferns from the West Indies and Mexico, from the 

 U.S. National Herbarium, Washington ; 74 phanerogams, chiefly 

 from the West Indies and Venezuela, from the Director of the 

 Botanic Museum, Copenhagen ; 341 phanerogams and 119 crypto- 

 gams from the Director of the Museu Goeldi, Para, Brazil ; and 

 200 cryptogams from the Hofmuseum, Vienna. 



The principal purchases during the year were : — 990 phanero- 

 gams and 16 cryptogams from Hungary, Bosnia, &c, from C. K. 

 Schneider ; 194 phanerogams and 6 vascular cryptogams, " Flora 

 Stiriaca exsiccata," fasc. 11-14, from Hayek; 50 specimens 

 "Salicetum exsiccatum," fasc. hi., from Toepffer; 50 specimens 

 " Batotheca Europaea," fasc. vi., from Sudre; 603 phanerogams 

 and 102 cryptogams from Japan and Korea, from Rev. U. Faurie ; 

 319 phanerogams and 117 cryptogams from China, from Father 

 Hugh ; 50 phanerogams and 5 vascular cryptogams from Java, 

 from Buysman ; 264 phanerogams and 9 vascular cryptogams 

 from N.W. Rhodesia, from Theo. Kassner ; 128 specimens from 

 German East Africa, from W. Biisse ; 84 phanerogams from 

 German East Africa, from Scheffler ; 362 specimens from Came- 

 roons, from Zenker ; 2807 phanerogams and 37 cryptogams from 

 Angola, from John Gossweiler ; 470 phanerogams and 6 vascular 

 cryptogams from Montana, from J. W. Blankinship ; 55 phanero- 

 gams and 2 Equisetacea from Washington, from W. N. Suksdorf ; 

 49 phanerogams and 75 cryptogams from Costa Rica, from Tonduz ; 

 159 phanerogams and 3 cryptogams from South Bolivia, from 

 Fiebrig ; 284 phanerogams and 25 cryptogams from Brazil, from 

 P. Dusen ; 337 phanerogams and 39 cryptogams from New 



