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Mr. H. N. Ridley; pamphlets on plant pathology from the 

 Department of Plant Pathology of the Cornell University Agri- 

 cultural Experiment Station; six papers on fungi by J. C. 

 Arthur, from the Purdue University; Transactions of the Third 

 International Congress of Tropical Agriculture, vol. ii., from 

 the Organising Secretaries; Sketch of the Natural History of 

 Yarmouth, by C. J. & James Paget, with a few MS. additions, 

 from Trof. C. S. Sherrington; A Monograph of the British 

 Lichens, part 1, second edition, by A. Lorram Smith, from the 



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s and Circulars of the 



Agricultural Experiment Station, Cuba, from the Director; 

 Mededcelingen van het Algcmeen Proef station der Avros, 

 Medan, Sumatra, from the Director of the Station ; Icones 

 Plantarum Formosanarum, by B. Hayata, vol. vii., from the 

 Bureau of Productive Industries, Government of Formosa; 

 Journal of the Botanical Society of South Africa, parts 1-4, 

 from the Honorary Secretary; Physiological Abstracts, vols, i 

 & ii., from the publishers, Messrs. H. K. Lewis & Co. ; Mede- 

 deellingen van de Landhouwhooge school, Wageningen, from 

 Prof. J. Ritzema Bos; a large number of the numerous useful 

 publications of the United States Department of Agriculture, 

 from the Secretary of the Department; and a copy of the curious 



little work by A. W 



pseudonym of 



A. Carex, entitled Illustration en zur deutschen Flora in Feder- 

 Zcichnungen, with lland-Glossen, from Dr. W. Botting 

 Hemsley, who has al^o contributed, amongst other publications, 

 portions of illustrated works with which to supplement the col- 

 lection of drawings. 



Additions to the Herbarium during 1918. — During the year 



about 5600 specimens were received as donations or exchanges, 

 518 were purchased, and 954 were received on loan. The 

 principal collections are enumerated below: — 



Europe. — Presented: Britain (John Divers), by Mr. Jos. J. 

 Divers; Mr. C. E. Snlmon. Greek Macedonia, by Capt. G. W. 

 Harris, Sergt. J. M. Russell, and Lce.-Cpl. W. B. Turrill. 



Ixdia. — Presev+ed\ "Western Himalaya, by Shiv Ram Kash- 

 yap. Chitral, Gilgit, and Burma, bequeathed by Major S. M. 

 Toppin. Madras, by the Madras Government Herbarium, 

 through Mr. J. S. Gamble. Andaman 8, by Mr. C. E. Parkin- 

 son, through Mr. R. S. Hole. 



Malaya. — Presented: Philippines (C. B. Robinson and 

 others), by Mr. E. D. Merrill. Butch New Guinea, bv Miss 



L. S. Gibbs. 



Australia. — Presented: Tasmania, by Miss L. S. Gibi- 



New Zeaiaxd. — Presented: By Mr. T. F. Cheeseman. 



Polynesia. — Presented: Fiji, by Mr. W. Greenwood. 



Tkoptcal Africa. — Presented: Sierra Leone, by Mr. K. G. 

 Burbridge and Major Guy Aylmer. Lagos, by Dr. J. M. 

 Dalziel. Belgian Congo (E. Pere Hyac. Vanderyst) by the 



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