90 Botany. 



26 Syrian plants collected by W. K. Loftus : presented ; in 

 1853 and 1856, 72 Oriental plants were presented ; in 1856, 207 

 Assyrian plants were purchased. 



635 South American plants with specimens of wood, etc., 

 collected by Spruce: purchased; in 1851, 378 plants, etc., were 

 purchased ; in 1852, 367 plants, etc. ; in 1853, 422 ; in 1855, 405 ; 

 in 1856, 256; in 1858, 664; in 1859, 363; in 1860, 300; in 

 1861, 910; in 1866, 997; in 1867, 1,403 mosses; in 1892, 494 

 hepatics. 



519 plants from New Mexico collected by C. Wright : pur- 

 chased ; in 1853, 850 plants were purchased. 



396 Spanish plants collected by Blanco : purchased. 



208 plants from Algeria and Oran collected by George Munby : 

 purchased. 



200 plants from Forfarshire collected by W. Gardiner : 

 purchased. 



108 plants from New Zealand collected by Mossman : pur- 

 chased; in 1850, 107 cryptogams were purchased; in 1860, 365 

 "West Australian plants. 



1851. 



5,746 Brazilian plants collected by Gardner, being his own 

 herbarium : purchased of his executors. 



1852. 



1,747 plants from Kumaun, Garhwal, and adjoining part of 

 Tibet, collected by Capt. R. Strachey and presented by the East 

 India Company. 



114 woods from Ceylon, collected and presented by F. Layard, 

 Esq. 



A collection of Australian plants, chiefly from Allan Cunning- 

 ham : presented. 



780 specimens, representing 293 species of British sea-weeds : 

 purchased from Mrs. Griffiths. 



130 plants from Mount Olympus collected by Clemente : 

 purchased. 



A collection of fruits and fungi from St. Domingo, collected 

 by Salle : purchased; in 1855, 46 fungi from Vera Cruz were 

 purchased; in 1857, 298 Mexican fungi; in 1858, 524 Mexican 

 plants and 275 from New Orleans. 



