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the Dale Memorial Tablet is placed, was for many generations 

 partitioned off and used as a school, so that it was in that very spot 

 that Ray received his education before going to Cambridge. 



REPORTS OF DEPT. OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1908-12. 



By A. B. Rendle, D.Sc, F.R.S. 



(Concluded from p. 335.) 



Acquisitions, 1912. 

 (1) By Donation. 



Additions to the British Herbarium have been received from 

 the following donors : — H. N. Dixon, 34 microscope slides of pre- 

 historic mosses; G. C. Druce, 59 specimens; W. Fawcett, 5 

 specimens ; C. P. Hurst, 3 specimens ; Rev. E. S. Marshall, 91 

 specimens ; W. E. Nicholson, 2 specimens ; Prof. D. Oliver, 50 

 specimens ; Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell, 105 specimens ; C. E. Salmon, 

 20 specimens; H. S. Thompson, 3 specimens; Major A. H. Wolley- 

 Dod, 258 specimens of roses and 49 specimens of Mentha. 



The following donations have been made to the General 

 Herbarium : — 



Europe. — Miss D. Bates, 10 specimens from Majorca ; Dr. 

 Beille, 4 specimens of Fumaria from Herb. Clavaud ; Dr. M. C. 

 Cooke, 27 microscope slides of freshwater algae ; M. A. Fenton, 

 3 specimens from Spitzbergen ; Miss D. M. Higgins, 227 speci- 

 mens from South of Spain ; A. B. Jackson, 9 specimens from 

 La Mortola. 



Asia. — A. Adiassewick, 63 specimens from Turkestan ; Prof. 

 A. Arnoldi, 7 algae from Aru Islands ; C. J. Brooks, 5 ferns from 

 Sarawak ; J. R. Drummond, 193 specimens from India ; Rev. 

 Prebendary H. E. Fox, 718 phanerogams and 11 ferns from 

 Palestine, collected by B. T. Lowne ; H. French Ridley, 130 speci- 

 mens from Ko-ko-Nor, N.W. China. 



Africa. — Miss Araiitage, 2 specimens from Egypt ; G. L. 

 Bates, 23 specimens from South Cameroons ; Rev. Prebendary 

 H. E. Fox, 147 phanerogams and 45 ferns from the Canary 

 Islands, also 42 ferns from Madeira, collected by H. B. Tristram ; 

 W. J. Harding King, 36 specimens from Libyan Desert ; A. E. 

 Kitson, 102 phanerogams, 2 cryptogams, and 4 fruits from South 

 Nigeria ; Liberian Rubber Corporation, 169 phanerogams and 3 

 cryptogams from Liberia, collected by R. H. Bunting ; Miss O. 

 MacLeod, 138 Cyperacece and Graminece from North Nigeria, 

 North Cameroons and Lake Chad district ; J. O'Brien, 3 orchids 

 from Uganda, collected by J. Hughes ; Hon. W. Rothschild, F.R.S. , 

 specimen and drawing of Cynomorinm coccineum, and 3 photo- 

 graphs of Terebinth taken near Laghouat, Algeria ; Mr. and Mrs. 

 P. A. Talbot, 1551 phanerogams, 50 cryptogams, and 98 fruits 

 from North Nigeria, North Cameroons, Lake Chad district and 

 Oban, South Nigeria. 



