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1895. 



246 East Tropical African plants collected and presented by 

 Dr. Donaldson Smith; in 1900, 210 plants were presented. 



213 East African plants collected and presented by F. J. 

 Jackson, Esq. 



Prof. D. H. Campbell presented 146 microscope-slides, illustra- 

 ting his researches on archegoniate plants. 



108 British plants collected and presented by W. A. Shool- 

 bred, Esq. ; in 1898, 96 plants were presented. 



The first portion, consisting of 5,000 specimens of the Stephani 

 collection of Hepaticse : purchased ; in the following year, the 

 concluding portion, consisting of 6,920 specimens, was purchased. 



1,233 plants and 68 woods from Kilimanjaro collected by W. 

 Volkens : purchased. 



400 species, forming first four centuries of Rehmann and 

 Woloszczak's "Flora Polonica exsiccata": purchased; centuries 

 5-9 were acquired later. 



348 plants from South Texas and 297 from the Sandwich 

 Islands collected by A. A. Heller: purchased; in 1896, 249 

 plants from Hawaii were purchased ; in 1897, 277 from New 

 Mexico. 



300 plants from Coolgardie, West Australia, collected by 

 S. Moore : purchased. 



1,075 specimens, forming twenty-three fasciculi of Collins, 

 Holden, and Setchell's " Phycotheca Boreali- Americana," with 

 supplements : purchased at various dates between 1895 and the 

 present time. 



350 specimens, forming seven fasciculi of Jaczewski, Komarov 

 and Tranzschel's " Fungi Rossiae exsiccati " : purchased between 

 the years 1895 and 1900. 



100 species, forming first two fasciculi of Tiselius' " Potamo- 

 getones Suecici" : purchased; in 1897, fasc. 3 was purchased. 



31 species, forming fasc. 1 of Arthur and Hoi way's " Ure- 

 dineae exsiccatae " : purchased; in 1899, fasc. 2 (55 sp.) was 

 purchased ; in 1901, fasc. 3 (28 sp.). 



1896. 



3,705 specimens of fungi and lichens from Weddell's herbarium 

 were presented by the Linnean Society. 



Collection of Diatomacese, containing 3,582 slides : bequeathed 

 by F. C. S. Roper, Esq. 



