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rev, has been collected, and will be sent to the Society as soon as they can be glued 

 down to paper in the manner prescribed by the Committee. Other members are collect- 

 ing the herbaria of their respective districts, and the Committee hope, next year, to re- 

 port the addition of several local herbaria. 



Foreign Plants. — The donations of foreign plants received during the past season 

 far exceeds that of any fonner year. The Royal Horticultural Society of Cornwall 

 has sent a very large collection of East-Indian plants, comprising specimens collected 

 at Madras by Dr. Wight, and at Assam by Major Jenkins. 



A very large collection of North-American plants had been received from Dr. Ga- 

 vin Watson and Mr. R. Kilvington; and Mr. E. Doubleday had presented 300 species 

 from Ohio. A collection of specimens from Western Australia has been presented by 

 Mr. Turner ; and Mr. Adam Gerard has sent some valuable plants collected at Sierra 

 Leone. 



Cryptogamic Collection, {Ferns). — British ferns have been received from various 

 members ; and in every instance where specimens have been received from localities 

 not hitherto recorded in the collection, the most characteristic have been selected and 

 introduced, in accordance with the principle laid down by the Committee, of extend- 

 ing the series to every locality that can be obtained for the rare species, and every 

 county or district for the more abundant. It has also been made an object to ascer- 

 tain the geological range of each, as well as its geographical distribution. The abun- 

 dant supply of Lastraea cristata, Asplenium lanceolatum, Adiantum Capillus-Veneris, 

 and Trichomanes speciosum, has enabled the Committee to distribute them to all 

 members who applied for specimens. 



Mosses, TAchens, HepaticcB and AlgcB. — The following species of mosses new to the 

 British Flora, have been presented by Dr. Thomas Taylor : — Trichostomum saxatile 

 {Taylor, MS.), and Bryum recurvifolium {Taylor, MS.) ; and the following new spe- 

 cies of Hepaticse : — Jungermannia reclusa, fragilifera, germana and riparia (all Tay- 

 lor, MSS.) : together with authentic specimens of the newly -determined species, — 

 Dicranum scoparium and D. Dillenii {Taylor). Mr. G. H. K. Thwaites has sent a 

 large collection of mosses, chiefly collected by him in the neighbourhood of Bristol, 

 including many new species. Dr. Ayres has forwarded specimens of Peziza cautecau- 

 lis and Hystericum rubrum discovered by him in Oxfordshire. 



In concluding their Report, the Committee called upon the members for renewed 

 exertions to make the collection forming by the Society as complete as possible, and to 

 render their herbarium a permanent standard for the determination of plants : and 

 members and contributors are particularly requested to send monstrosities, and any 

 specimens differing from the common form. 



The Reports of the Council and Herbarium Committee were unanimously adopted ; 

 a ballot then took place for the Council for the ensuing year : when J. E. Gray, Esq., 

 was re-elected President. John Miers, Esq., F.R.S., J. F. Young, M.D., and A. Hen- 

 frey, Esq., A.L.S., were elected new members of the Council in the room of G. Francis, 

 Esq., H. A. Meeson, M.D., and Adam White, Esq., who retire from the Council in 

 accordance with the rules of the Society. 



Mr. J. Reynolds, Mr. G. E. Dennes, and Mr. T. Sansom, were respectively re- 

 elected Treasurer, Secretary and Librarian. 



December IS. — The President nominated Hewett C. Watson, Esq., F.L.S., and 

 John Miers, Esq., F.R.S., Vice-Presidents. G. E. D. 



