P8 Botany. 



gatherings of Diatomacese, together with notes and sketches, was 

 purchased. 



785 plants and 42 woods from Egypt and Ethiopia, collected 

 by Schweinfurth : purchased. 



18 fascicles of British algee prepared by J. Cocks : purchased. 



238 plants from Chontales, Nicaragua, collected by B. 

 Seemann : purchased. 



227 plants from Senegambia and 256 from the Neilgherry 

 Mountains, collected by Perrottet : purchased. 



Wirtgen's " Herbarium Rhenanum" : purchased 186771. 



134 cryptogams from South Africa and the West Indies 

 collected by Breutel : purchased; in 1871, 873 mosses from 

 South Africa, Central and Arctic America ; purchased. 



1868. 



994 plants from Styria, Dalmatia, and Italy, presented by 

 Dr. R. C. Alexander Prior. 



333 Australian plants collected and presented by Charles 

 Moore, Esq. 



295 British lichens presented by Dr. Holl. 



4,824 cryptogams, being Hepp's herbarium : purchased. 



1,250 Bolivian plants collected by Mandon : purchased. 



1,093 Pyrenese plants collected by Petit : purchased. 



966 Algerian plants collected by Remain : purchased. 



954 plants from French Guiana collected by Sagot : pur- 

 chased. 



588 Italian plants collected by Puccinelli : purchased. 



564 Chilian plants collected by Philippi : purchased ; in 1893, 

 several specimens of Malvaceae were presented. 



544 plants from Martinique collected by Hahn : purchased ; 

 in 1870, 444 plants were purchased. 



500 Calif ornian plants collected by Bolander : purchased. 



100 microscope-slides of Eulenstein's " Diatomacesa Typicse " : 

 purchased. 



50 lichens from the Channel Islands collected by Larbalestier : 

 purchased; in 1873, 230 lichens were purchased; in 1880, 350 

 British and 150 Egyptian. 



1869. 



110 Australasian plants collected by Baron Ferd. von 

 Mueller: presented; in 1878, 286 plants were presented; in 



