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200 plants from New Zealand collected and presented by Sir 

 James Hector. 



160 palms from the Amazon region collected and presented 

 by Dr. J. Trail. 



149 Cape plants collected and presented by Dr. Halm. 



1877. 



The Herbarium of Robert James Shuttleworth, containing 

 more than 170,000 specimens from all parts of the world; 

 purchased. It included Roemer's Herbarium, and extensive 

 collections made by Shuttleworth, in Europe ; by Frivaldsky, 

 in Turkey ; Richter, in Hungary ; Mabille and Debeaux, in 

 Corsica; Bourgeau, in the Balearic Islands, Spanish Pyrenees 

 and Rhodes ; Willkomm, in South Spain ; Auzendli and others, 

 in Algiers ; Du Parquet, in. Egypt ; Aucher-Eloy and Kotschy, 

 in the Levant ; beside the published series of Reichenbach, Fries, 

 Huet du Pavilion, &c., greatly enhanced in value by numerous 

 critical notes by Shuttleworth. A very large number of North 

 American plants collected by Lindheimer, Beyrich, Fendler, 

 Blodgett, and especially by Rugel ; Mexican plants collected by 

 Jurgensen, Hartweg and Berlandier ; and South American 

 collections made by Hostmann, Linden, Gardner, Jameson, 

 Mathews and others. The Asiatic portion contained a very fine 

 and extensive series of the plants of Zollinger, from Java and 

 Japan ; of Kollmann, from Java ; of Cuming, from the Philippines ; 

 of Fortune, from China ; of Walker and Lobb, from Singapore ; 

 of Campbell, Christie, Heifer and Wallich, from India ; and of 

 Karelin and Kiriloff, from Dzungaria. The African collections 

 comprise the plants of Schimper and Kotschy, from Nubia and 

 Abyssinia ; of Brunner, from Senegal and the Cape Verde 

 Islands ; and of Drege, Krauss and others from South Africa. 

 The Australian collections include the plants of Drummond, 

 Preiss and Sieber. The cryptogams, which number 20,000, con- 

 tain the collections of Schaerer, Desmazieres, Mougeot and Nestler, 

 Kiitzing, Crome, Rugel, Braun, Schmidt and Kunze, Wartmann 

 and Schenk, Salwey and many others. 



The herbarium of Hepaticse, formed by Hampe, containing 

 upwards of 6,000 specimens : purchased ; in 1881, Hampe's moss 

 herbarium of about 25,000 specimens was purchased. 



1,098 plants collected by H. N. Moseley during the Challenger 

 expedition : presented by the Lords of the Treasury ; the following 

 year, 1,606 plants were presented. 



