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Oceania. — U. Faurie, 1130 phanerogams and 1168 cryptogams 

 from the Sandwich Islands ; J. E. Tilden, 58 phanerogams and 

 81 cryptogams from the South Pacific Islands. 



America. — E. Bartholomew, 200 fungi Columbiani and 200 

 Uredinea ; T. S. Brandegee, 459 phanerogams and 21 cryptogams 

 collected in Mexico by C. A. Purpus; Collins, Holden and Setchell, 

 125 North American algae ; C. C. Haynes, 20 American hepatics ; 

 E. B. Hough, 25 specimens of American woods ; G. K. Merrill, 

 75 lichens, mostly North American : W. F. Eosenberg, 90 ferns 

 from Peru, collected by C. O. Schunke ; I. Urban, 247 phanero- 

 gams and 35 cryptogams from St. Domingo, collected by H. 

 von Turckheirn. 



General. — M. A. Miedbrodt, 100 marine algae ; H. Eehm, 66 

 ascomycetes ; E. M. Eeineck, 340 phanerogams and 153 crypto- 

 gams ; V. Schroeder, 85 tropical ferns, determined by E. Eosen- 

 stock ; Sydow, 100 Uredinece and 25 Ustilaginece. 



(3) By Exchange of Duplicates. 



Director, Eoyal Botanic Museum, Berlin, 1082 phanerogams 

 and 68 cryptogams from tropical Africa and 47 phanerogams and 

 3 cryptogams from Caroline Islands ; Director, Eoyal Botanic 

 Gardens, Calcutta, 91 specimens from India ; Director, Eoyal 

 Gardens, Kew, 21 specimens of Pedicularis from North-west 

 India; Director, Botanic Garden, New York, 414 phanerogams 

 from Cuba and 159 mosses and 168 Hepatica from North and 

 South America ; Director, Herbarium, Museum of Natural History, 

 Paris, 681 phanerogams with 151 drawings, and 77 vascular 

 cryptogams, mainly Chinese ; Director, Imperial Botanic Gardens, 

 St. Petersburg, 25 specimens from Turkestan ; Director, Botanic 

 Gardens, Singapore, 387 phanerogams and 91 cryptogams from 

 Malay Peninsula ; Director, National Herbarium, Sydney, 13 

 specimens of Eucalyptus ; Curator, Botanical Department, Hof- 

 museum, Vienna, 200 cryptogams, mostly European ; W. A. Davis, 

 269 specimens of British Hieracia. 



BIBLIOGEAPHICAL NOTES. 



LIV. — ' The Botany of the Antarctic Voyage.' 



In making the preliminary announcement of his son's great 

 work, Sir W. J. Hooker, in his London Journal of Botany, (iii. 274, 

 1844), thus summarized its intended scope : — " The publication 

 ... is to appear in monthly parts till the whole is completed in 

 5 vols, royal quarto with 500 beautifully executed lithographic 

 plates of new or imperfectly known species ; coloured and plain. 

 . . . Each part [is to contain] 8 plates and 2 sheets of closely 

 printed letter-press. . . . No. 1 of the Flora Antarctica will 

 appear on the 1st of June of the present year and will be com- 

 pleted in 20 parts with 160 plates. . . . The Flora Nova Zelandice 

 will form 1 vol. with 140 plates, and will be succeeded lastly by 



