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150 specimens ; C. E. Salmon, 26 specimens ; J. C. Shenstone, 

 1000 photographs and negatives of British plants ; H. Stuart 

 Thompson, 3 photographs of habitat of Spartina Townsendi and 



14 specimens ; Prof. J. W. H. Trail, 2 specimens of varieties of 

 Rubus Idceus ; C. Waterfall, 3 specimens from Yorkshire. 



The following donations have been made to the General 

 Herbarium : — 



Europe. — Eastern and Associated Telegraph Companies, 2 deep- 

 water marine algaB from the Straits of Gibraltar ; W. Fawcett, 

 7 specimens from N. Spain ; F. Seymour Haden, a collection of plants 

 principally from Dauphine ; Mrs. Hort, a collection of Alpine and 

 European plants by the late Prof. Hort ; C. C. Lacaita, 13 specimens ; 

 Hon. N. C. Rothschild, specimens of anemone from S. France. 



Asia. — H. N. Dixon, 6 lichens from Kumaon ; S. T. Dunn, 



15 phanerogams and 3 cryptogams from China ; C. H. Hobart, 

 specimen of orchid from Upper Burmah ; Dr. H. Takeda, 70 

 specimens from Japan ; T. Kawada, 23 specimens of Formosan 

 woods ; Miss Lilian Lyle, 3 ferns and 4 Muscinea from Japan ; 

 the Kwantung Government through Mr. Yamawaki, specimens of 

 fruits and seeds, including 2 panel pictures. 



Australia. — Miss D. M. Higgins, 150 specimens from South 

 Australia collected by Miss Hussey ; R. M. Laing, 50 marine algae 

 collected in the Kermadec Islands by R. B. Oliver ; A. H. S. 

 Lucas, 5 marine algae from New South Wales and Tasmania. 



Africa. — A. F. Broun, 200 phanerogams and 2 cryptogams 

 from Sudan ; E. Brown, 3 specimens from Uganda ; Liberian 

 Rubber Corporation, 136 phanerogams and 13 cryptogams from 

 Liberia, collected by R. H. Bunting ; F. Eyles, 25 phanerogams 

 and 3 cryptogams from Rhodesia; R. Kemp, 2 fungi from Kili- 

 manjaro district ; Dr. Karl Kumm, 8 specimens from Central 

 Africa ; C. F. M. Swynnerton, 1758 phanerogams and 26 cryptogams 

 from Gazaland ; P. A. Talbot, 113 phanerogams, 70 cryptogams, 

 and 15 fruits from South Nigeria. 



America. — F. O'Driscoll, 121 specimens of woods from Northern 

 Argentina; Southern Pacific Railway Co., 3 framed photographs 

 of Seqtioia gigantea and Oregon pine ; W. R. Maxon, 4 specimens and 

 5 photographs of American ferns ; Capt. J. F. Parry, 356 specimens 

 of Arctic plants from Parry's Expedition : West India and Panama 

 Telegraph Co., 5 marine algae from near Puerto Rico and Grenada. 



Cultivated Plants. — W. E. Balston, 11 specimens of cultivated 

 orchids ; E. A. Bowles, 8 specimens of cultivated Galanthus ; 

 Chelsea Garden, 68 specimens for exhibition purposes ; J. T. 

 Clifton, 3 specimens of cultivated orchids ; Director, Royal Gardens, 

 Kew, 19 specimens of cultivated plants for exhibition purposes ; 

 James O'Brien, 11 specimens of cultivated orchids. 



(2) By Purchase. 



British Isles. — E. M. Holmes, 37 rare British marine algae ; 

 A. Chatwin, 20 marine algae of Jersey; Rev. W. Johnson, 40 North 

 of England lichens ; Miss A. Lorrain Smith, 22 microscope slides 

 and 54 dried specimens of new or rare microfungi. 



Journal of Botany. — Vol. 51. [Nov. 1913.] 2 c 



