104 Botany. 



301 Chinese plants collected and presented by F. B. Forbes, 

 Esq. 



Herbarium of Indian ferns of Col. Beddome : purchased ; in 

 1885, nearly 10,000 plants were purchased ; in 1887, 58 mosses ; 

 in 1890, 706 plants. 



773 Chilian plants collected by E. C. Reed : purchased. 



667 lichens from New Granada, being Lindig's study set : 

 purchased. 



600 German fungi collected by Fuckel : purchased. 



Sixteen centuries of P. A. Saccardo's " Mycotheca Veneta " : 

 purchased between the years 1875 and 1881. 



450 specimens, Nylander and Norrlin's " Herbarium Lichenum 

 Fennite": purchased 1875-1882. 



Twenty-three centuries of Thumen's " Mycotheca Univer- 

 salis" : purchased between the years 1875 and 1884. 



The following were purchased from E. F. Nolte's Herbarium : 

 1,285 plants from Schleswig-Holstein collected by Hansen ; 1,000 

 Scandinavian plants forming Fries' " Herbarium Normale " ; 865 

 species forming Funck's " Cryptogamische Gewachse " ; 611 plants 

 from Greenland and Iceland, collected by Vahl and Hornemann ; 

 200 German lichens prepared by Florke and 100 vascular crypto- 

 gams by Reichenbach ; 200 algae of East Friesland prepared by 

 Jurgens; 180 Oriental plants collected by Forskal ; 150 North 

 American lichens and 82 New England plants collected by 

 Tuckerman ; a large collection of Potamogeton, 52 species of 

 Batrachium and 14 species of Najas ; and a number of types of 

 plants described by Cavanilles, Delile, Thuillier, Allioni and 

 others. 



100 plants forming George Don's " Herbarium Britannicum " : 

 purchased. 



1876. 



The study set of Robert Brown's Australian plants and 

 other specimens : bequeathed by J. J. Bennett. 



The second set of Welwitsch's African plants was acquired. 



The moss herbarium of James Dickson : purchased. 



360 plants from the Island of Rodriguez, collected by Dr. 

 Bayley Balfour during the Transit of Venus expedition : pre- 

 sented by the Royal Society ; in 1879, a set of cellular plants 

 was presented. 



294 Formosan plants collected and presented by the Rev. W. 

 Campbell. 



