Libraries. 17 



1889. 



About 1,716 duplicate volumes and parts were transferred 

 from the Printed Books Department, Bloomsbury, and divided 

 among the several libraries. 



L. 1,010 volumes and 45 maps were added : of these 293 

 volumes were presented and 439 transferred from other depart- 

 ments. The total number at the end of year being 19,933 

 volumes and 3,541 maps. 



G. 57 volumes and 409 pamphlets, with 47 maps were 

 acquired, including Pt. i-iii and vi of William Smith's "New 

 Geological Atlas " (purchased), and three volumes of manuscript 

 notes and drawings by Caleb Evans. 



M. 182 volumes and 80 pamphlets were added. 



Z. The accessions amounted to 197 volumes and 477 parts, 

 bringing the total up to 9,666 works in 15,440 volumes. 



Sir J. D. Hooker presented his drawings of Antarctic Fish, 

 made dui'ing the expedition of the Erebus and Terror in 1839-43. 



1890. 



L. 691 volumes and 28 maps were added, of which 316 

 volumes were presented, and 23 volumes with 26 maps were 

 transferred from other departments. 



Sir John Evans, K.C.B., presented sets of the publications of 

 the Linnean Society of London from 1877, and of the Zoological 

 Society of London from 1868 : he has subsequently presented the 

 succeeding parts as issued. 



B. The scientific correspondence of the Rev. M. J. Berkeley 

 was presented. This included letters of C. E. Broome, whose own 

 correspondence had been bequeathed in 1886. The two series are 

 of great importance in connection with the Broome Herbarium. 



A copy of the rare and valuable " Salictum Woburnense," by 

 J. Forbes, privately printed in 1829 by the Duke of Bedford, was 

 presented by Mr. F. Justen. 



Drawings of 74 species of Victorian Fungi were received 

 from the Victorian Government, through the President of the 

 Victorian Commission at the Paris Exhibition of 1889, Baron 

 Sir F. von Mueller. 



G. 101 books and 75 parts, with 59 pamphlets and 32 maps 

 were added. 



M. 126 volumes and 119 pamphlets were acquired. 



Z. 128 volumes and 468 parts were added. 

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