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and partly from the specimens subsequently acquired by the trustees, has 
been exhibited, so as to show their minute structure by the help of light 
reflected from mirrors. The exquisite water-colour drawings of Australian 
plants by Ferdinand Bauer, the companion of Robert Brown in his 
expedition to Australia, have been carefully placed in sunk mounts, so as 
to preserve from injury these unique and unsurpassed productions, and a 
selection rom them has been framed, and placed on the walls of the first 
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Besides this more general work in the Herbarium and the publie rooms, 
the principal business done in the department during the year 1871 has 
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In the naming, arranging, and laying into the General Herbarium of 
collections of plants made in Morocco by Durand, and in Tunis by 
during his visits to the Herbarium ; of an extensive collection of plants 
from Yucatan, formed by Dr. Arthur Schott; and of Portuguese plants 
gathered by the late Daniel Sharpe. 
In the re-arrangement in the British Herbarium of the Leguminosae, 
Unbellifere, Prünulacee, Polygonacee and Lichenes. 
The following are the principal additions made to the collections of the 
Department during the year 1871 :— 
.—To the Herbarium. 
General Herbarium. 
anerogamia. 
168 Species of plants, forming Sehultz's * Herbarium Flore Istriace.’ 
135 » ji from P 
53 from Madeira ; collected by C. Lemann 
5000 > 5; ia chiefly from Central Europe, Alsace, the Jura, 
the Lower Rhine, Spain, the Songarei in the 
Ural territory, Mexico, and Labrador, being 
the Herbarium of Auerswald, of Leipsig. 
from Yucatan; collected by Dr. Arthur Schott. 
from Seandinavia; collected by Dr. Zetterstedt. 
200 E » from Sicily, forming fasc. 11 and 12 of Todaro's 
* Flora Sicula. 
from Russia ; collected by Gruner, Bunge, ete 
1,030 » ” ete. 
185 » » from the island Swatoi, in the Caspian Bea; 
collected by Dr. Bruhus. 
556 » hs from the country around Catherinslav; collected 
r. Gruner. 
378 from Uman; collected by Dr. Golde. 
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371 m from Woronetz ; collected by Dr. Gruner. 
ing Schultz’s * Cichoriaceotheca. 
253 » Composit, forming 
400 » plants from Nor Africa ; collected by Col. Paris 
323 » » Malaya ; collected by the late Dr. Maingay 
1,625 » Fi from Scandinavia; collected by Ahlberg. 
272 » Salix; collected by Wimmer. 
62 » plants from Lower Egypt; collected and presented by 
Messrs. Calvert and Hurst. 
17 » „ - from St. Helena; presented by J. C. Melliss, 
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N.S. VOL. 1. [sung 1, 1872.] " 
