118 Botany. 



160 ferns from St. Vincent collected by H. H. and G. \V. 

 Smith : presented by a joint committee of the Royal Society and 

 the British Association ; in 1892, 190 plants were presented ; in 



1893, 295. 



A collection of ferns from Grenada made by R. V. Sherring 

 was presented by the same committee. 



60 algae, being the types of Bornet and Flahault's " Revision 

 des Nostocacees " : presented by Prof. Flahault. 



23 Cape cryptogams collected and presented by W. Tyson, 

 Esq.; in 1892, 69 cryptogams were presented; in 1893, 166; in 



1894, 57 ; in 1895, 63 ; in 1896, 23. 



The cryptogamic herbarium formed by H. W. Ravenel and 

 consisting of 1,950 mosses and hepatics, 4,500 lichens, 1,100 algae 

 and 7,000 fungi : purchased. 



Herbarium of 4,490 species of plants from New Granada, 

 formed by Jose Triana : purchased. 



2,706 West Chinese plants collected by Dr. A. Henry : pur- 

 chased; in 1895, 384 Formosan plants were purchased. 



1,350 North Chilian plants collected by August Borchers : 

 purchased. 



601 plants from Szechuen and the Tibetan frontier, collected 

 by A. E. Pratt: purchased; in the following year, 170 plants 

 were purchased. 



1,700 species, forming thirty -four fasciculi of Krieger's " Fungi 

 Saxonici" : purchased from time to time since 1891. 



300 British fungi collected by G. Massee : purchased. 



201 plants from Madagascar collected by J. Cloisel : pur- 

 chased. 



189 plants from Paraguay collected by T. Morong : purchased ; 

 in 1892, 340 plants were purchased; in 1894, 79 plants and 3 

 fruits. 



100 mosses, forming first century of Tile's " Bryotheca Bra- 

 siliensis": purchased; in 1895, cent. 2 was purchased; in 1899, 

 445 Brazilian cryptogams. 



1892. 



George Davies's herbaiium of about 20,000 British and exotic 

 cryptogams presented. 



199 North American cryptogams presented by Prof. Farlow ; 

 in 1895, 59 lichens were presented. 



234 characese from Alex. Braun's herbarium were acquired 

 by exchange. 



