210 REPORT OF THE HERBARIUM AND LIBRARY, KEW. 
Extracts and Wbgtracts. 
REPORT FOR THE YEAR 1872 OF THE HERBARIUM AND 
LIBRARY OF THE ROYAL GARDENS AT KEW. 
By J. D. Hooxer, C.B., M.D., F.R.S. 
HERBARIUM. 
Tnx accessions to the Herbarium are of exceptional importance as 
regards novelties. The number of specimens acquired during 
1872 has been about 17,500, of which 1500 were purchased, and 
presentations are the . C. New’s plants, collected on the Alpine 
zone of Kilima-njaro, the only hitherto visited snow-clad mountain 
of King’s College. As containing the types of many species 1m- 
perfectly described by the first Indian botanists, and representing 
ihe state of the botany of the Peninsula at the beginning of 
ntury, it is of a interest and importance both in a scientific 
a Historial point of vie 
A beautiful wbitsetibA of Burmese Orchids has been presented 
by the Kev. C. Parish. Dr. Brandis, F.L.S, Conservator of Forests 
for India, has placed his herbarium, formed in many parts of India, 
at the disposal of this vba to be selected from ; pe ah 
: yde. 
‘Mr. Kurz, Curator of th Herbarium of the Calcutta _Botanié 
Garden s, has transmitted large Burmese collections. made during # 
late A to that country. 
or novelty as well as interest no contributions are of grea ater 
value than Beccari’s Bornean onde amounting to 1850 species, com- 
municated by Professor Parlatore, of Florence; M. Maxi mowicz’s 
apan plants, a splendid series ; pe enderson’s collections, made 
during Forsyth’s mission to Yarkand; and Dr. J. Anderson’s, made 
during the expedition to sane _ the botany of eee ae latter 
countries having previously been wholly unknown to s 
rincipal ca beable to the Heatbaictoom' ive been 
the arateng 
£, &e.—Andersson, Dr. (Academy of sige at Stockholm): 
avi ‘plait Ball, J.; Alpine plants. Braun, Prof.; a collection 
of Marsileas. Cooke, M. C.; British stig '(purchased). Fries, 
