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Sours Arrica. Presented :— Various collections by the late Dr. 
H. Bolus, through Mrs. F. Bolus, and by Dr. R. Schlechter, through 
Dr. Hans Schinz ; Giftberg, by "Mr, E. P. Phillips, through Prof. 
H. H. W. Pearson; Transvaal, by Mr. J. Burtt Davy ; Pondoland, 
by Miss M. H. Mason ; Natal, by Mr. J. Medley Wood. 
anh lemme -—W. Barron, specimens of Erica. 
RTH AMERICA. Presented :—Various specimens, by Prof. C. 
8. Bena by Mr. J. B. Leiberg, through the Smithsonian [nstitu- 
tion ; grasses, by the United States Department of Agriculture ; 
California, by Prof. W. A. Setchell. 
Purchased -—F. 8. Collins, lay veto Boreali-A mericana, i 
36-37; Prof. J. Macoun, Canadian Mosses, Hepaticae and Lichen 
Wust Invius. Presented aECubé, Jamaica, etc., by Dr. N. "i 
Demons ; Tobago, Trinidad, etc., by Mr. W. E. ‘Broadwa ay. 
H AMERICA. Presented :—Brazilian Malpighiaceae, by L. 
Riedel, "hisagh the Dirsotor, Imperial Botanic Garden, St. Peters- 
burg; Herbarium of the late EB. F. eit aes the Bentham 
Trustees ; Falkland Islands, by Mrs. E. Vallen 
Purchased : :—Dr. Otto Buchtien, Herbarium Belivianium, Cent. i. 
The largest contribution during the year was the herbarium of 
the late Edouard Francois André, which contains 14,000 sheets and 
was presented by the Bentham Trustees. Most of the specimens 
were collected by André in Colombia. Dr. A. F, G. Kerr has sent 
additional specimens from Doi Sootep, Siam, as well as those 
collected on a tour eastwards to Nan, whence he proceeded north- 
west to Chiengrai, returning southwards to his headquarters at 
Chiengmai. He has also sent a collection from Sriracha on th 
south coast of Siam. Large collections from Old Calabar have 
been received from Mr.and Mrs. P. A. Seca: aie from Asaba and 
vicinity (Southern Nigeria) from Mr. N. W. as, Government 
Anh se ipp has sent an icareoting collection 
from theGold Coast. The Percy Sladen Memorial Trustees have pre- 
sented collections made are. the expeditions in meamgieey Africa 
under their nog by i. ws rson and others. 
Dron; n has scnsiailedded collections winds by him during 
his recent ae a Cuba, as well as specimens from other West 
Indian islands. Mrs. Elinor Vallentin has presented the large 
collection (including many cryptogams), whol she made during her 
residence in the Falkland Islands, 1909-1911. Mr. Alwyn Berger 
has sent at various times fresh specimens of plants flowering at 
La Mortola. More than 7000 specimens have been received on 
loan for working up the African floras and for research on special 
groups. 
Presentations to the Library during 1912. —The collection of 
of the works of this class added to the library in the course of the 
‘last twenty Sere Among the more interesting and valuable of 
those received from them in 1912 is an excellent copy of Ages 
New Kreuterbuch (Basel, 1543), by Leonhard Fuchs. 
German edition of De historia stirpium commentarii insignes (1042), 
