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added that the large number of 26,000 incorporated is partly 
due to the valuable assistance of volunteers iiting? whom should 
be specially mentioned Messrs. J. Burtt Davy, J. 8. Gamble, 
H. N. Ridley, L. A. Riley and Dr. O. Stapf, who in the course 
of their private studies have assisted in the naming and laying 
in of many hundred specimens. 
Reference should be made to the cellular cryptogams, of 
which it is less easy to keep exact returns, and which in conse- 
quence are not included in the last set of figures. Large collec- 
tions of Fungi arrive annually from the Colonies, especially 
Africa. Owing to the absence of herbaria and lack of literature, 
workers in the tropics find it an Bee ea difficult, if not 
an impossible, task to identify Fur 
The principal collections Ate are as i avwas — 
Evurore.—Presented : Britain; Cornwall, by Mr. Edgar 
Thurston; Orkneys, by Col. H. H. Johnston; various localities, 
by Mr. C. E. Salmon and Mr. W. B. Turrill; “Austria, by Dr. O. 
; ‘si Dri 1A: 
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bruckner; Flora Hungarica, cent 2-5, by Dr. F. Filarsky; 
Serbia, Bulgaria, Slavonia, Istria and the Karse, by Mr. & Mrs. 
B. Turrill; Gallipoli, by Lt.-Col. F. R. Durham; Greek 
Macedonia, by Maj. G. W. Harris; Balearic Islands, by 
L. H. Knocke. 
Purchased: Dr. A. Hayek, Centaureae Exsiccatae, fase. 3, 
nos. 101-140; H. Sydow, Mycotheca Germanica, fase. 29-36; 
I. Nowopokrowski, Russian seeds from the Don District. 
OrieNnt.—Presented: Syria (coll. B. T. Lowne) and Asia 
Minor (coll. Balansa) by Mr. C. E. Salmon; Palestine, by Mrs. V, E. 
uxton. — 
ATLANTIC IsLanps.—Presented : Madeira, by Miss A. Mungo 
Park ; Azores (coll. T. Carew Hunt), by Capt. G. W. Carew Hunt; 
Azores (coll. J. A. Brewer), by Mr. C. E. Salmon. : 
Cuina.—Presented: G. Forrest, by the Syndicate which 
organised the expedition ; W. Purdom, by Prof. C. 8. Sargent ; 
W. Hancock, by Miss Hancock; Chinese seeds, by Mrs. E. M. Reid. 
Purchased: Rev. E. Licent, Tientsin; M. Gandoger, coll. 
L. Chanet and H. Serre; Rev. J. Cavalerie. 
Inp1a.—Presented : Dehra Dun, by Mr. R. 8. Hole; North- 
Western Himalaya (coll. R. R. & I. D. ceil zt by 
Stewart; Punjab, etc., by Mr. J. R. Drummond ; Mount Everest 
Expedition. 
Purchased : Rev. L. Anglade; Madras, Pulney Hills. 
Matay PEntnsuLa.—Presented : various localities, by Mr. 
— I. H. Burkill. 
Mataya.—Presented : Siam, by Dr. A. F. G. Kerr; Siam 
(coll. W. B. Garrett and Luang Winit), by Mr. W. F. ‘Lloyd; 
Philippine Islands, by Mr. E. D. Merrill and Prof. Oakes Ames ; 
British North Borneo, by Mr. E. D. Merrill; Sumatra (coll. Mrs. 
