100 Botany. 



in 1874, 450; in 1877, 350; in 1890, 1,287; in 1891, 138; in 

 1900, 54. 



250 critical British plants collected by W. T. Thiselton Dyer : 

 purchased; in 1871, 100 plants, purchased. 



175 Juncaceae, and 165 Graminese, being Baenitz's published 

 sets : purchased. 



100 plants from Old Calabar collected by Robb : purchased. 



82 fossil plants prepared by Nornian : purchased; in 1871, 

 73 fossil woods were purchased ; in 1873, 122 fossils. 



1871. 



343 cellular cryptogams presented by Dr. W. Lauder 

 Lindsay ; in 1874, a collection of fossil plants was presented. 



267 Cape plants collected by R. Trimen : presented. 



Auerswald's herbarium of 17,000 European and American 

 plants : purchased. 



1,625 Scandinavian plants collected by Ahlberg : purchased. 



1,450 mosses, forming twenty-nine fasciculi of Rabenhorst's 

 " Bryotheca Europsea," were purchased between 1871 and 1884. 



125 vascular cryptogams of Europe, forming five fasciculi of 

 Rabenhorst's published set. 



1,030 Russian plants collected by Gruner, Bunge, Schweinfurth, 

 Le Jolis, etc. : purchased; and 556 from Catherinslav and 371 

 from Woronetz by Gruner. 



1,000 Yucatan plants collected by A. Schott : purchased. 



410 lichens of Italy collected by Anzi : purchased ; in 1875, 

 a further 988 were purchased. 



400 North African plants collected by E. G. Paris: pur- 

 chased; in the following year, 100 plants were purchased. 



400 Belgian cryptogams collected by Westendorp and 

 Wallays : purchased. 



390 South American mosses collected by J. Weir : purchased r 

 in the ensuing year, 189 plants were purchased. 



378 Russian plants collected by Golde : purchased ; in 1874, 

 133 plants were purchased ; in 1875, 100. 



323 Malayan plants collected by A. C. Maingay : purchased ; 

 in 1882, 135 Burmese lichens were purchased. 



304 British fungi collected by W. G. Smith : purchased ; in 

 subsequent years 47 specimens and 216 microscope preparations 

 were acquired. 



300 wood sectior.s prepared by Nordlinger : purchased ; 



