Among the m 



ost valuable of his collections are those made by 



the various Arct 



ic and Antarctic Expeditions. Among these are 



the sets of mossc 



:s from Spitzbergen collected by Parry and Ross 



in 1819-1820, fi 



-om the herbarium of Robert Brown, and those 



collected in Gr. 



inland, Baffin's Bay and Melville Island by 



Franklin in his 



search for the Northwest Passage. There are 



also collections 1 



made by Seemann on the Voyage of H. M. S. 



Herald in 1845- 



185 1 at Panama, by the Transit of Venus Expe- 



dition in 1874- 



1875, by Moseley on the Voyage of the Chal- 



lengerin 1875, i 



ncluding specimens from Bermuda, and by the 



Roraima Expedition in British Guiana in 1884. 



Asiatic mosses are represented by collections in the Himalayas 

 by Hooker and Thomson ; in Nepal by Griffith ; in Ceylon by 

 Thwaites ; and in Burma and the Straits Settlements by Griffith. 

 A few Chinese and Japanese mosses also were described in 1864. 



Musci Archipelagi Indici, will be very useful in naming the recent 

 collections made in the Philippines by Mr. R. S. Williams. The 

 collections from New Zealand made by Hutton and Kirk and from 

 Samoa by Powell seem to be largely duplicated and available for 

 exchanges. Besides these, there are other Polynesian mosses 

 from Fiji and New Caledonia, and Australian mosses from Mel- 

 bourne, Port Philip, Gippsland, Victoria and New South Wales, 



African collections were received from Central Africa, collected 

 by Bishop Hannington and from Kilimanjaro by H. H. Johnston ; 

 from West Africa from the Cameroons and River Niger ; from 

 Southern Africa, including Rehman's exsiccatae of 1 875-1877 ; 

 from the Cape of Good Hope by Milne and Eaton and McGilli- 

 vray and Burchell ; from Madagascar by Pool ; from Mauritius 

 by Ayres, Balfour and Telfair ; from Bourbon and Socotra by J. 

 B. Balfour ; from St. Thomas by G. Mann ; from Algiers and 

 Morocco by Sir John Ball ; and from Fernando Po and St. 

 Helena, the Azores, and the Atlantic Islands of Madeira and 

 Canary. 



Local mosses from the vicinity of Hurstpierpoint and other 

 parts of Sussex and Kent, which had been made up into sets for 

 exchange, are also well represented ; together with several dupli- 



