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OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT 
OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
By J. J. BENNETT, Esq., F.R.S. 
The principal business of the department during the year 1865 has 
consisted in the naming, arranging, and laying into the general herba- 
rium of the extensive collections of plants of Cuba, formed by Mr. 
Charles Wright, and of Venezuela, formed by M. Moritz ; of numerous 
families from the great Oriental collections of M. Aucher Eloy; of 
plants from Otaheite, the Fiji Archipelago, and other islands of the 
South Paeific; of a continuation of the Senegambian collections of 
Perottet, Leprieur, and of Heudelot, and of Thwaites's plants of Cey- 
lon; of M. Giesecke’s plants of Greenland ; of the cellular cryptegamic 
plants of Mr. Cuming's Philippine collection; of Hepatice, Mosses, 
Characee, and Fungi, from various localities and e and of a 
large number of miscellaneous additions to the collect 
In the re-arrangement, with large additions of the pese of Cory- 
lacee, Juglandee, Myricee, Platanacea, and Cupulifere, and of por- 
tions of the collection of woods : 
In the examination and partial arrangement of various collections 
recently received : 
In the laying into the British Herbarium of Mr. Black’s and other 
collections of Mosses; of Dr. Carrington’s Hepatice ; of numerous 
es from various localities and collectors, and especially of Roses, 
(binis, and Willows ; and of a portion of the collection presented by 
Mrs. Atkins : 
And in the — re-arrangement of the British Fungi, with 
very extensive additi 
The principal additions which have been made to the department 
during the year 1865, consist of— 
About 1500 species of ones including a valuable British herba- 
rium, presented by Mrs. Atkin 
Specimens of Viola Seran from Yorkshire, and of Trichomanes 
radicans from Wales, presented by Mr. James Backhouse, jun. 
269 species of plants of the Shetland Islands, collected by Mr. Tate. 
250 ,, British Fungi, from the collection of Mr. Cooke. 
P 3 microscopic Fungi, presented by C. E. Broome, Esq. 
