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REPORT OF DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1890, 

 By George Murray, F.E.S. 



The late Freeman C. S. Roper, of Eastbourne, for many years 

 an authority on Diatomacea;, has greatly enriched the collections by 

 the bequest of his cabinet of Diatoms, consisting of 3580 slides, 

 2 type slides, and 41 herbarium specimens. Mr. Roper's collection 

 had been long known as one of the best private cabinets, since it 

 contains much material prepared under his special direction. It 

 has proved to be of great value even as an addition to the magnificent 

 series of slides already in the Department. 



The Linnean Society has presented 3705 specimens of Fungi 

 and Lichens (from Weddell's Herbarium), and the gift has made it 

 possible to complete published sets by E. Fries, Mougeot and 

 Nestler, Stenhammar, Th. M. Fries, Hepp, Anzi, and Malbranche. 



The other additions to the collections by presentation have con- 

 sisted of 841 Malayan Phanerogams and Cryptogams, 345 woods 

 and 1 fruit by H. N. Ridley, Esq., Director of Gardens and Forests, 

 Singapore; 453 Indian plants by Dr. George King, C.I.E., F.R.S., 

 Superintendent of the Royal Botanic Garden, Calcutta ; 352 Kash- 

 mir and 100 Pamir plants by J. F. Duthie, Esq., Director of the 

 Botanic Garden, Saharunpur ; 81 Cryptogams and 1 fruit by the 

 Honourable William Fa^Ycett, Director of Public Gardens and 

 Plantations, Jamaica; 3 plants by J. H. Hart, Esq., Superintendent, 

 Royal Botanic Gardens, Trinidad ; 135 South African plants by the 

 Government of Cape Colony ; 74 African Fungi and 3 fruiting 

 specimens of Flowering Plants by W. T. Thiselton-Dyer, Esq., 

 C.M.G., C.I.E., F.R.S., Director, Royal Gardens, Kew ; 11 Insecti- 

 vorous plants by Professor Balfour, F.R.S., Director of the Royal 

 Botanic Garden, Edinburgh ; 24 North American and Mexican 

 plants by the Director of the National Herbarium, Washington ; 

 435 African plants by tbe late John Buchanan, Esq., C.M.G. ; 

 8 specimens by Messrs. Veitch ; 93 North American plants by 

 Professor Macoun ; 240 Canadian Phanerogams and Cryptogams 

 by J. M. Macoun, Esq. ; 25 plants from Kolguev by Colonel 

 Feilden; 34 European plants by Dr. Christ; 248 Chinese Phane- 

 rogams and Cryptogams and 30 fruits by Father Hugh ; 17 American 

 Willows by W. W. Rowlee, Esq. ; 300 Phanerogams and Crypto- 

 gams from British North Borneo by his Excellency the Governor 

 Creagh, C.M.G. ; 70 South African plants by H. Bolus, Esq. ; 

 74 Nyasaland plants by the Universities Mission; 2 photographs of 

 Mexican vegetation and 2 Fungi by 0. H. Howarth, Esq. ; 2 plioto- 

 graplis of Hakca (irammatopJujUa by G. H. Adcock, Esq. ; 3 specimens 

 and drawings by Professor Bailey ; 6 Orchids by F. W. Moore, Esq. ; 

 4 species of Lhnilieya by Dr. Cordemoy ; 2 Canarian plants by the 

 Rev. R. P. Murray ; 3 New Zealand plants by T. Kirk, Esq. ; 

 21 Orchids by J. Weathers, Esq. ; 27 West Australian plants by 

 W. Fraylen, Esq. ; 17 microscope slides of Cryptogams by C. D. 

 Sherborne, Esq. ; 300 New Zealand Musci and Hepaticaj by F. T. 

 Mott, Esq. ; 3 Tasmania Mosses by W. A. Weymouth, Esq. ; dried 



