96 Botany. 



1864. 



216 fungi presented by C. E. Broome, Esq. 

 3,000 species, forming sixty livraisons of Desmazieres' " Plantes 

 Cryptogames de la France " : transferred from the Department 

 of Printed Books ; in 1888, 280 fresh-water algae : purchased. 



2,000 mosses, chiefly British, forming A. O. Black's Herbarium : 

 purchased. 



Rabenhorst's " Algen Sachsens," comprising two hundred and 

 fifty -nine decades, were purchased between the years 1864 and 

 1880. 



Rabenhorst's "Fungi Europaei," Ed. 2, Ser. ii., containing 

 forty-three centuries, were purchased between the years 1864 

 and 1901. 



121 specimens, forming five parts of Rabenhorst's " Characese 

 Europese," were purchased between the years 1864 and 1879. 



450 British fungi collected by M. C. Cooke: purchased; in 

 1865, 250 fungi were purchased; in 1867, 200; in 1870, 100; 

 in 1872, 307 ; in 1874, 100 fungi and 50 Discomycetes ; from 

 1872-74, 332 preparations, illustrating the structure and 

 fructification of British fungi, were purchased; in 1895, 100 

 fungi, chiefly Australian. 



539 Cuban cryptogams collected by C. Wright : purchased : 

 in 1865, 2,127 phanerogams were purchased; in 1870, 351 fungi; 

 in 1884, 330 Graphidese; in 1886, 56 lichens. 



700 plants of the Rocky Mountains collected by Hall, 

 Harbour and Parry : purchased. 



672 Pyrenean plants collected by Fourcade : purchased. 



550 plants from Palestine collected by B. T. Lowne : 

 purchased. 



100 plants forming two fasciculi of Van Heurck's " Plantes 

 rares ou critiques de Belgique" : purchased ; in 1868, 1869, and 

 1870, other fasciculi were purchased. 



1865. 



1,500 British plants presented by Mrs. Anna Atkins. 



1,078 South African plants collected by T. Cooper: pre- 

 sented. 



1,000 Tyrolese plants collected by Rupert Huter : purchased ; 

 in 1866, 850 plants were purchased; in 1867, 300 ; in 1868, 425 

 Dalmatian; in 1870, 375 Tyrolese; in 1872, 405; in 1875, 488 



