Botany. 137 



Bridges (THOMAS). [1807-65] 



533 plants from Bolivia, purchased 1847, and 285 from California, 

 purchased 1858. 



Briggs (THOMAS RICHARD ARCHER). [1836-91] 



1602 British plants, chiefly from Devon and Cornwall, presented 

 1880-91. 



British. Herbarium. 



For the convenience of British botanists the British plants have, since 

 1859, been separated from the General Herbarium an arrangement 

 adopted since 1859, when the herbaria of Edward Forster, James 

 Sowerby, and Mrs. Eobinson were combined as the nucleus of the British 

 collection. 



Briosi (GIOVANNI) [1846- ] and FRIDIANO Cavara [1857- ] 

 " Funghi parassiti delle Piante," 350 specimens in 14 fascicles (1888- 

 1900), purchased 1889-1900. 



Britton (NATHANIEL LORD). [1858- ] 



111 plants from North America, acquired by exchange, 1892. 



Broome (CHRISTOPHER EDMUND). [1812-86] 



His herbarium of fungi, containing about 40,000 specimens, many of 

 them being the types of species described by him and by Berkeley, and 

 8 vols. of his correspondence, bequeathed 1886. In this collection were 

 included sets of specimens published by Cooke, Phillips, Plowright, Vize, 

 Fuckel, Rabenhorst, Eavenel, Rehm, von Thuemen, Wagner. 



Brotherus (A.). 



830 plants from the Caucasus, purchased 1883. 



Brown (ROBERT). [1773-1858] 



Seep. 84. 



Browne (SAMUEL), [d. before 1703] 



A folio volume of plants (with notes) sent by him from Fort 

 St. George (Madras) to the East India Company in 1697, and presented 

 by the Company to the Royal Society ; an account of the collection, by 

 Petiver, is in Phil. Trans. Other specimens from Browne are in the Sloane 

 Herbarium. 



Bruce (ARTHUR). [1725?-! 805] 



Herbarium of British plants, purchased at the Linnean Society's sale, 

 1863. 



Bruhns (ALEXANDER). 



185 plants from island of Sviatoi, Caspian Sea, purchased 1871. 

 Brunner (SAMUEL). [1790-1844] 



Plants from Senegambia and Johanna Island, acquired with Herb. 

 Shuttle worth. 



Buchanan (FRANCIS) afterwards Hamilton. [1762-1829] 



Collection of Avan plants sent to Banks 1794, with MS. descriptions 

 and drawings : see Journ. Bot., 1902, 279 ; collection from Chittagong 

 sent to Banks, 1798; 674 plants from Nepaul, Mysore, and Malabar, 



