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Additions to the Herbarium during 1909.— During the year nearly 
14,000 specimens were received as donations or exchanges, while just 
over 8,000 were purchased. The principal collections are enumerated 
below. | 
Europe. Presented: Hungarian plants, by Dr. A. de Degen; 
South France and the Pyrenees, by Mr. C. E. Salmon ; “ Krypto- 
gamae Exsiccatae,” Cent. xvii. by the Imperial Natural History 
Museum, Vienna; Crete, by Mr, A. Trevor-Battye; British 
Marine Algae, by Mr. A. D. Cotton. 
Purchased: Fiori, Béguinot and Pampanini, “ Flora Italica 
Exsiccata,” Cent. viii-x.; H. Sydow, “ Mycotheca Germanica, © 
Fasc. xvi.—xvil. 
Cuina anp Japan. Presented: Japanese Algae collected by 
Prof. Yendo and Mr. H. G. : 
Fokien, by Mr. S. T. Dunn; China, by Mgr H. Léveillé; 
and Mr. F. R. Long; Siam, by Dr. A. F. G. Kerr ; eg 
Islands, by Mr. Elmer D. Merrill; Indo-China, by the 
Herbarium ; Java (Plante Junghuhnianae), by the Leiden Herba- 
rium, (Fungi), by Dr. F. von Héhnel; British New Guinea, by 
Mr. F. M. Bailey ; Dutch New Guinea, by the Buitenzorg Botanic 
arden. 
Purchased : Elmer, Philippine Islands ; Hubert Winkler, South 
East Borneo. 
AUSTRALASIA. Presented: Australian Algae and Fungi, by 
Mr. F. M. Bailey; New Zealand, by Miss L. S. Gibbs ; plants 
used in the preparation of “Illustrations of the New Zealand 
Flora,” by Mr. T. F. Cheeseman ; Fiji, by. Miss L. 8S. Gibbs ;_ 
New Caledonia, by the Paris Herbarium. 
- Purchased : Max Koch, Western Australia; Savatier, Tahiti. 
TropicaL Arrica. Presented: French Guinea, by Prof. Hi. 
Lecomte; Sierra Leone, by Messrs. A. H. Unwin and C. W.- 
Smythe ; Gold Coast, by Mr. J. Anderson; Lagos, by the 
Conservator of Forests; Northern Nigeria, by the Imperial 
Institute (Dr. J. M. Dalziel), Mr. B. E. B. Shaw; Southern 
Nigeria, by Mr. A. H. Unwin and Mr. J. L. Williams; South 
Abyssinia, by Dr. R. E. Drake-Brockman ; British East Africa, 
by Mr. E. Battiscombe, Mr. W. Scoresby Routledge and Mr. M. 8. 
vans; Uganda, by Mr. R. Fyffe ; Prof. H. H. W. Pearson, 
Angola, by the Sladen Trustees, Rev. F. A. Rogers ; Rhodesia 
and Matabeleland, by Dr. S. Schénland and the Department of 
Agriculture, Rhodesia ; Mozambique, by Mr. W. H. Johnson. 
? ——— : R. Schlechter, West Africa; Kaessner, Central 
ca. : 
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