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from the Tyrol and North Italy; in 1876, 237 from South 

 Europe; in 1881, 375 European. 



2,850 Venezuelan plants collected by Moritz : purchased. 



1,600 plants from Zululand collected by W. T. Gerrard : 

 purchased. 



400 Sicilian plants, forming first four centuries of Todaro's 

 "Flora Sicula": purchased; in 1867, 1868, cent. 5, 6 were 

 purchased; in 1869, cent. 7, 8 ; in 1871, cent. 9-12; in 1875, 

 cent. 13, 14. 



369 Swedish plants collected by Nyman : purchased. 



273 European mosses contained in Schimper's " Pugillus 

 Muscorum " : purchased. 



269 plants from the Shetland Islands collected by Ralph 

 Tate : purchased. 



1866. 



Collection of ferns (upwards of 10,000) made by John Smith, 

 of Kew : purchased. 



5000 microscope-slides of Diatomaceae, forming the entire 

 collections of Gregory and Greville : purchased. 



600 German plants, forming first six centuries of F. Schultz's 

 "Herbarium Normale " : purchased; in 1868, cent. 7-10 were 

 purchased ; in 1886, cent. 20, 21 (C. Keck, ed.) ; in 1887, 

 cent. 22, 23; in 1888, cent. 24; in 1889, cent. 25, 26; in 1892, 

 cent. 27-29 ; in 1894, cent. 30, and 31 (Dorfler, ed.) ; in 1897, 

 cent. 32-34; in 1898, cent. 35, 36; in 1899, cent. 37-39; in 

 1900, cent. 40; in 1901, cent. 41 ; in 1902, cent. 42, 43. 



536 specimens being Sullivant and Lesquereux's "Musci 

 American! exsiccati," Ed. II. : purchased. 



475 plants from Formosa collected by R. Oldham : purchased ; 

 in 1870, 663 plants were purchased. 



400 species, being Mdlle. Libert's " Plantae Cryptogamicse " of 

 the Ardennes : purchased. 



370 specimens of Leighton's " Lichenes Britannici " : pur- 

 chased ; the following year, 50 species were purchased. 



112 plants from Old Calabar collected by W. G. Milne: 

 purchased. 



1867. 



1,300 plants from the East Indies and 1,000 from the 

 Neilgherry Mountains, collected by Metz : purchased. 



835 marine algse collected by Kiitzing and others : purchased ; 

 the following year, Kutzing's entire collection of about 2,000 



