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and freshwater Crustacea, and his memoir is in an advanced state of 

 preparation. It will include those of St. Vincent and Grenada, and it 

 may be recalled that he has already worked out those groups from 

 Dominica. 



At the time of the last report Mr. Herbert H. Smith, the collector 

 employed by Mr. Godman, was engaged in making collections in zoology 

 in the island of Grenada. This collection has now been received in this 

 country, and great part of it mounted under the direction of Dr. Sharp. 

 From this island there are in his custody of mounted Coleoptera 16,700 

 specimens, of mounted Hymenoptera 1,380 specimens, of mounted Hemi- 

 ptera 1,215 specimens, of Hemiptera in spirit 400 specimens, of Ants in 

 spirit about 600 specimens, of mounted Orthoptera 100 specimens — in all 

 20,395 specimens. From the same island, and in the custody of Mr. 

 Godman, there are (all of them mounted) of Diptera about 2,620 speci- 

 mens, of Homoptera 380 specimens, of Hemiptera 1,195 specimens, of 

 Neuroptera 112 specimens, of Orthoptera 100 specimens, of Hymenoptera 

 227 specimens, of Lepidoptera 860 specimens — in all 25,889 specimens 

 from this island— besides collections of land-shells, snakes, scorpions, 

 myriapods, arachnida in spirit, &c., not yet examined. 



A small collection of birds made by Mr. Elliott during his visit to 

 Anguilla (referred to below) has been received and named by Dr. Sclater. 

 A list of the species will be published in the ' Proceedings of the Zoo- 

 logical Society.' 



BOTANT. 



A paper by Mr. J. G. Baker ' On the Vascular Cryptogamia of the 

 Island of Grenada,' based on the collections made by Mr. R. V. Sherring, 

 who was sent to Grenada by the Committee during the winter of 1890-91, 

 has appeared in the 'Annals of Botany,' April, 1892. Among the orchids 

 collected by Mr. Sherring and named at Kew there are a number of 

 additions to the flora and several possible new species. 



So little result in the way of novelty or additions to o\ir knowledge 

 of distribution appeared to follow the explorations of the Committee in 

 the matter of vascular plants that it was determined to devote attention 

 especially to the cellular cryptogams, of most branches of which an im- 

 perfect record existed. Mr. W. R. Elliott was accordingly sent to 

 St. Vincent for a period of six months to collect cellular cryptogams, and 

 with instructions to visit the little known island of Anguilla. Mr. Elliott 

 has sent home extensive collections (nearly 1,000 numbers altogether, 

 each well represented) from both islands, and they are now being worked 

 out at the British Museum. A small collection of flowering plants from 

 Anguilla which accompanied these possesses little interest. The fungi 

 have been already described in part by Mr. George Massee in a paper in 

 the ' Journal of Botany,' and twenty species of this group new to science 

 have thus far been discovered and here recorded. Mr. Antony Gepp has 

 ■undertaken to work out the Musci and Hepaticaa, of which an extensive 

 series has been collected ; and Mr. George Murray has undertaken the 

 Algae, from which group comparatively few novelties are expected, since 

 he has recently catalogued the marine Algae of this region. The Lichenes 

 have not been allotted. Mr. Elliott, having finished this part of his work, 

 viz., St. Vincent, has proceeded to Dominica, an island from which a 

 larger number of new records may be confidently anticipated, since it is 



