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Collections of Phytoplankton from the Atlantic presented by 

 Capts. Kudge and Milner, whose collection was subsequently 

 augmented. 



99 Brazilian plants collected by F. Sellow : acquired by 

 exchange. 



1,180 plants from Costa Rica collected by Durand and Pittier : 

 purchased. 



700 plants from Asia Minor collected by W. Siehe : purchased ; 

 in 1899, 142 plants were purchased. 



545 dried orchids and sketches by John Weathers : pur- 

 chased. 



466 plants and 40 woods from the Cameroons collected by G. 

 Zenker : purchased; in 1898, 362 plants were purchased; in 

 1899, 340; in 1901, 207 plants and 55 woods; in 1902, 288 

 plants. 



275 " Musci Gallioe," prepared by Husnot : purchased. 



320 species, forming thirty -two decades of Cummings, Williams 

 and Seymour's " North American Lichens " : purchased, 189799. 



Six centuries of American algfe, prepared by Miss Tilden ; 

 purchased in 1897, and at subsequent dates. 



172 specimens, being Eaton and Faxon's "Sphagna Boreali- 

 Americana " : purchased. 



Howie's " Musci Fifenses" (112 species) : purchased. 



100 specimens of Koehne's "Herbarium Dendrologicum " : 

 purchased; in 1900, 135 specimens were purchased. 



Two centuries of Fleischer and Warnstorf's " Bryotheca 

 Europsea meridionalis " : purchased, 1897, 1898. 



200 specimens, forming four fascicles of P. Sydow's " Phyco- 

 myceten and Protomyceten " : purchased in 1897 and 1902. 



100 Shropshire mosses collected by R. de G. Benson, Esq. : 

 purchased ; in 1898, 157 were purchased. 



1898. 



627 Cape plants collected and presented by Major A. H. 

 Wolley Dod ; the following year, 1,239 plants were presented. 



591 Rhodesian plants collected and presented by Dr. F. 

 Rand; in 1902, 280 plants from the Transvaal were presented. 



578 mosses and hepatics from Charles Ly ell's herbarium : 

 presented by Mrs. K. Lyell; the following year, 1,120 specimens, 

 including Lyell's reference set, were presented by Sir L. Lyell, 

 Bart. 



