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184 plants from Panama and North- West America, collected by 

 Seemann. 



625 Australasian plants collected by Leichardt and Lynd : 

 purchased. 



600 plants from Braemar collected by A. Croall : purchased. 

 285 Californian plants collected by Bridges : purchased. 

 174 Ceylon woods collected by Wright : purchased. 



1859. 



James Sowerby's Herbarium, containing the types of the 

 plants figured in " English Botany " : purchased. 



" Lichenes Hibernici exsiccati," prepared by Isaac Carroll : 

 purchased; in 1874 and 1875, large Irish and Scandinavian 

 collections, formed by Carroll, were purchased. 



1860. 



406 plants from Kentucky collected by Dr. Shortt and 

 presented by Sir John Richardson. 



5,750 North American plants, forming Nuttall's Herbarium : 

 purchased. 



889 plants from Ecuador collected by Louis Fraser : pur- 

 chased ; the following year, 156 Guatemalan plants were 

 purchased. 



Four centuries of " Lichenes ex herb. T. Salwey " : purchased 

 1860-62. 



50 species forming fasc. 1 of Wirtgen's "Rubi Rhenani": 

 purchased; in 1861, fasc. 2 was purchased; in 1862, 32 species 

 of Mentha. 



1861. 



134 West Himalayan plants collected by Captain P. Gerard : 

 presented. 



757 plants, chiefly Russian, from Prescott's Herbarium : pur- 

 chased. 



601 British lichens collected by W. Mudd : purchased ; in 

 1865, 80 specimens, illustrating his monograph of British 

 Cladonise, were purchased. 



594 plants from the Fiji Islands collected by Seemann : 

 purchased; in 1865, 200 plants were purchased. 



375 plants from Alabama collected by S. B. Buckley : 

 purchased. 



