REPORTS OF DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM 331 



from E. Morton Middleton ; 2097 phanerogams and 180 crypto- 

 gams from Jamaica, presented by the Hon. the Colonial Secretary, 

 Jamaica; 14 specimens of orchids from Jamaica, from Miss 

 Gosset ; 30 North American specimens of Cratagus, from W. W. 

 Eggleston ; 15 specimens of fruits from the West Indies, from 

 the Secretary of the West Indian Committee ; 2 specimens of 

 cultivated Jamaica orchids, from Dr. Longstaff ; 3 specimens of 

 cultivated orchids, from Sir Trevor Lawrence ; 2 specimens of 

 cultivated orchids, from Messrs. Charlesworth & Co. ; 2 specimens 

 of cultivated orchids, from Messrs. Stuart Low & Co. ; 12 cultivated 

 plants from Chelsea Gardens, from the Curator ; 114 dissections 

 of cultivated Iris flowers, from W. E. Dykes ; seeds of Manihot 

 dichotoma, from Messrs. Honey and Thompson ; 12 specimens of 

 cultivated plants from Walter Ledger ; 2 cryptogams from near 

 Budapest, from Hon. N. C. Eothschild ; 245 mosses of 'Bolivia, 

 from Sir Martin Conway ; 56 Canadian algae, from Prof. John 

 Macoun; 14 marine algae of Madagascar, from G. Dixon; 81 

 fucaceous algae from the French coasts, from Prof. C. Sauvageau ; 

 the lichens of the British Antarctic Expedition (1901-4), from the 

 Managing Committee; 320 microscope preparations of Laboul- 

 beniacece, illustrating his memoir, from Prof. Eoland Thaxter; 

 395 original drawings of diatoms by the late Prof. E. K. Greville, 

 illustrating his types, from J. Paul Eylands; 5 species of mycetozoa 

 from North America, from Miss G. Lister ; Lithothamnia dredged 

 off Madeira, from E. Kirkpatrick. 



The additions to the British Herbarium by presentation have 

 been : — 8 specimens, from Prof. A. H. Trow ; 111 specimens, from 

 Eev. E. S. Marshall ; 163 specimens, from Eev. H. J. Eiddelsdell; 

 131 phanerogams and 7 cryptogams, from G. C. Druce ; 24 speci- 

 mens of dwarf plants from the Downs at Freshwater and East- 

 bourne, from John W. Love; 3 specimens of Bosa, from Eev. 

 Augustin Ley ; 12 lichens of Westmorland and Cumberland, from 

 J. A. Martindale ; 3 cryptogams, from E. M. Holmes ; 3 fungi, 

 from C. E. Hartley Smith ; 51 microfungi of Ayrshire, from D. A. 

 Boyd ; a new British moss, from Canon H. W. Lett ; 2 new or 

 rare British Hepaticce, from W. E. Sherrin ; 3 new British 

 Hepaticce, from W. E. Nicholson. 



The following additions have been made by exchange of 

 duplicates : — 268 specimens from Malaya, from the Curator, Eoyal 

 Botanic Gardens, Sibpur, Calcutta; 455 phanerogams and 4 

 cryptogams from Jamaica, from the Director of the Botanic 

 Garden, New York ; 246 phanerogams and 3 cryptogams, from 

 the Director, Imperial Botanic Garden, St. Petersburg; 800 

 phanerogams and 180 cryptogams from Malaya, from the Director 

 of the Botanic Gardens, Singapore ; 84 phanerogams and 18 

 cryptogams from South Africa, from the Director of the Botanic 

 Museum, Zurich ; 236 specimens, from the Director of the Her- 

 barium of the Museum d'Histoire Naturelle, Paris ; 100 crypto- 

 gams, from the Curator of the Botanical Department, Hofmuseum, 

 Vienna. 



The principal purchases during the year were : — Herb. Normale 



